Caro doesn't get Love & Rockets' Human Diastrophism

http://www.tcj.com/hoodedutilitarian/2011/01/form-fetish-and-diastrophism/

But who really does?

Comics>Cartooning says Caro

Caroline Small, our local comics litcrit* type, begins building a Comics is greater than Cartooning equation at the Hooded Utilitarian.

*Evidence = "Or, to return to the jargon, how can we expect the dialectic to work without antithesis?"

3 - count 'em - 3 links to local writers' stories

Baltimore's great cartoonist Tim Kreider smacks around Cathy-

Requiem for an Overweight
by Tim Kreider on September 7th, 2010

Caro looks glancingly at the great Radebaugh -

Too Much is Never Enough: Morris Lapidus’ Postmodern Curves
by Caroline Small on September 8th, 2010

and Weldon sneaks in a Kevin Huizenga review -

A Funny, Fractured Field Guide To A 'Wild Kingdom'
by Glen Weldon
National Public Radio's Books We Like September 4, 2010

Caro on Lilli Carré’s minicomic “The Thing about Madeline”

Caroline "Caro" Small writes on Lilli Carré’s minicomic “The Thing about Madeline” and also her film Head Garden which will be shown at SPX.

Caro responds on Comic Lit Crit

You can see Caroline Small's continued commentary here as an online 'discussion' of Best American Comics Criticism continues.

Caro on Comic Lit Crit

Best American Comics Criticism Roundtable: Won’t the Real Lit-Comics Critics Please Stand Up?
By Caroline Small
August 24th, 2010

Caro on Basil Wolverton

Caroline Small compares Basil Wolverton to outsider artists at the Hooded Utilitarian blog.

Caro Small on Asterios Polyp

Apparently, everyone is suddenly critiquing Mazzuchelli's Asterios Polyp, including DC's Caroline Small. I liked the book well enough, thought the art was stronger than the story, and thought the ending was silly. Read Craig Fischer rather than me though, because he thinks about these things.

Barbarella, Cul de Sac - nothing in common

Caroline Small muses about Barbarella here.

Richard Thompson explains the gag in today's Cul de Sac here and noodles about the cover of the next (2nd) Treasury edition here.

Caro on W the Whore

Caroline Small on W the Whore Makes Her Tracks - "Caro talks about the role of gender in Anke Feuchtenberger’s graphic novel."

Caroline Small reads Moore's Swamp Thing for the 1st time

Ahh, you can't go home again - but you can vicariously enjoy the thrill of Caroline Small's discovery of Swamp Thing via the good offices of her buddy Chris (who's leading her down the comics primrose path - it's no longer "I'm just here to see Craig Yoe to keep Chris company..."). Read their dialogue at Muck-Encrusted Mockery of a Roundtable: Liberty, Fecundity, Perversity

Nina Paley interview done by local blogger online now

Caroline Small's interview with Nina Paley is up at tcj.com, with part 2 now up as well. Caro, as I've never called her, joined HU last month, and one can frequently find her lurking around cartoonist events in DC, although she always claims she's there for her cousin. Well, now the truth is out.