![]() ![]() Sadly, The Cage hasn't been available in English since its original publication in 1975, but it is in the collections of several libraries. 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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