It's here at last: the spring 2008 issue of Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction has my article on comic books and metaphor in Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, and Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which first germinated as this post more years ago than I care to think about.
In other, not even remotely blog-related news, my first published piece of film criticism, an article on Citizen Kane and Nixon, sees print in the summer 2008 issue of JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.
And the piece I've been waiting the longest to see in print, on noir and nostalgia in The Big Lebowski, appears in the current, all-Coen brothers issue of Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. Sadly, it's been stuck in the pipeline for too long for me to become known as "the Lebowski guy," but I hope you enjoy it anyway.
None of these journals are terribly easy to track down outside of a university library (though you can order copies of Critique through the link above), but if you happen to read any of these articles I'd be glad to hear your reactions.
More projects on the horizon, but it's too early to announce them.
Update: Forgot to mention that I also have a review of Scott McCloud's Making Comics in the Spring 2008 issue of the International Journal of Comic Art.
My school ordered the last International Journal of Comic Art, so hopefully they'll get this one. Of your four articles it's the one I'm most interested in; while I really liked Making Comics I'm sort of hoping for a critical takedown, there's a lot of wasted space and it suffers when he moves from quirky advice into serious attempts at inspiration. And the 'Understanding Comics Culture' mini-chapter is just dire stuff, I couldn't bring myself to finish it the first read through. Will the review cover any of that stuff? Can you even say?
Also, The Wire Season Five is finally out on DVD, months after you've stopped talking about it...at least I can finally read the archives now.
Posted by: Isaac | August 25, 2008 at 06:18 AM
Yeah, I definitely address the "four tribes" stuff, which I liked about as much as you did. I may post the review here in a few months, once the issue has been out a while.
Posted by: Marc | August 25, 2008 at 05:56 PM
Marc, is there new website for the IJOCA? The only websote I'm getting via google (or the journal's wiki entry) has the latest issue as the one from Fall '05
Posted by: Joe Gualtieri | September 06, 2008 at 02:26 AM
Joe, I'm afraid the only IJOCA website hasn't been updated in a couple of years. However, the subscription and contact information listed there is still valid if you're interested in mailing John and ordering any issues.
Posted by: Marc | September 06, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Thanks Marc. I'm definately interested in ordering any newer issues!
Posted by: Joe Gualtieri | September 09, 2008 at 02:19 AM