Jean-Christophe Cloutier is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where he also teaches comics as literature. His dissertation explores the reciprocity between the archival and aesthetic practices of 20th-century novelists. He has published his work in Novel: A Forum on Fiction and Cinema Journal.
Jean-Christophe Cloutier
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Powerful Images Recollected in Tranquility
Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White takes advantage of the generic pluralism comics have enjoyed, or suffered, since becoming “respectable” in the mid-1980s. Expertly drawn with pencil, ink, and gouache, with a dash of Adobe InDesign, this coming-of-age memoir is also an immigrant story of the author’s Argentinian family and a unique […]
