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Graven Images
City Pages, December 23, 1998
Chester Brown's Jesus, and the frailties of human faith.
California Dreaming
City Pages, December 23, 1998
In 1931, a Japanese immigrant published a book's worth of weekly gag strips. They were bilingual, historically specific, and poignantly autobiographical -- and, obviously, they were also mostly ignored.
Teen Spirit
City Pages, Winter 1998
Dan Clowes' Ghost World, and the quiet anxiety of adolescence.
The Sands by Tom Hart
City Pages, March 26, 1997
Modern Whitmanisms, coaxed out of crude, child-like drawings.
Caped Fear
media press scared to cover non-superhero comics
A&E, January 9, 1997
This piece was written in retaliation for seeing the Minnesota Daily's news department run one of those irritating "comics ain't just for kids anymore" stories. My prediction about Joe Kubert's Fax From Sarajevo turned out to be mostly wrong, but the story still stands up pretty well after a few years. Now if I could only do something about that damned subhead.
Crime and Punishment
Clinton and Lewinsky discover a comic love in Monica's Story; a man faces the consequences of his waking acts in the surreal fantasy The Extended Dream of Mr. D.
City Pages, June 2, 1999
Elf and Cat are Friends
City Pages, February 10, 1999
Lonely Planet
City Pages, Spring 1998
The Other White Meat
City Pages, January 21, 1998
Longshot Comics by Shane Simmons
City Pages, August 6, 1997
Juvenilia
City Pages, Summer 1997
The year of reading dangerously
comics in '96-'97
A&E, June 5, 1997
Dark Comedy
Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny offers a lethal dose of gore, psychosis and laughs
A&E, May 22, 1997
Womb with a View
City Pages, Spring 1997
Freedom of Press
By the people and for the people, zines bring unique voices to the world of print
A&E, August 2, 1996
All Good Things ...
The end of the hit comic book Sandman, both epic fantasy and a story about stories
A&E, May 2, 1996
Comic book illuminates the pain of AIDS
A&E, April 4, 1996
Comic Madness
Three contemporary artists bring surrealism to comics
A&E, October 19, 1995
My name is Francis Hwang, and this is where I blog about code and the tech business. I'm a software engineer, and a writer when I can find the time. My non-techie writing is on my other site.