Aesthetist in Exile, Author at Pop Mythology

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Aesthetist in Exile

Steve Baxi, aka the Aesthetist in Exile, is a philosophy graduate student working on comics and aesthetics. He creates videos on YouTube as well as more general writing on his blog. The goal of his research is to better understand the philosophical depths of superheroes.

Bars on a cage: exploring the art and form of comic panels

Aesthetist in Exile December 31, 2016 Comics Comments Off on Bars on a cage: exploring the art and form of comic panels

Comics literally frames everything through panels. Thus, what we are left with is not an inferior medium but one that perfectly reflects the workings of art in ideologically dominated societies.