![]() ![]() ![]() We had an overflow crowd for the talk, and I believe Thierry made a lot of converts that day. Groensteen himself had recently published a study of book, La construction de "La Cage." I was the Chair of the CA&C Area for 2002, and when I received Thierry's abstract, I knew that this presentation deserved a special session all its own. By happy coincidence, not only had Vaughn-James produced The Cage while living in Toronto, but Prof. The Cage is, simply (or better, complexly) The Cage.Īt the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in Toronto, the Comic Art & Comics Area was honored to present a lecture by noted comics critic and scholar Thierry Groensteen on The Cage. It's also not a tour or even a travelogue. ![]() Even with the accompanying "explanatory" text, The Cage doesn't exactly present any sort of traditional narrative. It's sort of a trip inside an apparently abandoned building, with no people anywhere to be seen. If you're not familiar with The Cage, here are a couple of images to give you a feel for it. (And thanks to afNews where I first learned this sobering news.) See Tom Spurgeon's obituary for Vaughn-James at, as well as this brief story at ActuaBD. Sad news for fans of avant-garde comics: Martin Vaughn-James, author of the enigmatic album The Cage, passed away on July 3. ![]()
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