Elizabeth Sandifer and Penn Wiggins | Criticism, Comics, and Things That Don't Start with C | Patreon
Criticism, Comics, and Things That Don't Start with C| Patreon
Criticism, Comics, and Things That Don't Start with C| Patreon
Every year I write a new essay about one of the worst comic strips ever published, the September 11, 2011 edition of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. If you want to catch up, it went “here’s a close analysis of the actual strip” in 2021, “here’s the larger cultural context of decline within the Ameri| Eruditorum Press
Scrape away the deconstructive close-reading, scrape away the history of decline, scrape away the entire wilfully absurd edifice of an annual blog series devoted to it and what you are left with is an unusually bathos-heavy bit of glurge. The word “glurge” was coined by Patricia Chapman on a mail| Eruditorum Press
CW: Racist imagery, not discussed by the larger essay One complicating factor in our exegesis of the 9/11/11 Barney Google and Snuffy Smith strip is that the strip exists in two different forms with two distinctly different resonances. Last year we discussed a five panel version of the strip, howev| Eruditorum Press
America a Prophecy is a new ongoing blog series on Eruditorum Press. It will post annually. On September 11th, 2011, ten years after the events generally known as 9/11, one of the most extraordinary uses of the comics medium ever appeared in the newspaper strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. As| Eruditorum Press
