Zachary Rondinelli

Zachary J.A. Rondinelli is a Ph.D. student in Educational Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, ON Canada. He is primarily interested in the intersection between comics, communication, and education, specifically as it relates to reading and literacy studies. Zach’s research interests include comics theory, multimodality, literacy studies, transactional theory, and more recently, digital comics and digital comics theory. Zach’s writing on comics has been included in POP!: Culture & Comics, PanelxPanel, The Vault of Culture, and Sequential: Canadian Independent Digital Comics Magazine.
Frank Pé’s ‘Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay’ Is a Different Sort of Slumberland

Frank Pé’s ‘Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay’ Is a Different Sort of Slumberland

Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comics strip is in the public domain, and French artist Frank Pé applies his reinterpretation in Little Nemo: After Winsor McCay.

Joe Ollmann’s Jimmi Wyatt and Other “Fictional Fathers” in Comics

Joe Ollmann’s Jimmi Wyatt and Other “Fictional Fathers” in Comics

Inspired by Joe Ollmann’s Fictional Fathers, I ruminate on my life with comics, my favourite job as a father, and what Art can remind fathers about loving and raising their children.

Michael DeForge’s ‘Heaven No Hell’ Delivers on Its Promise

Michael DeForge’s ‘Heaven No Hell’ Delivers on Its Promise

Artistic evolution alone cannot explain what is found within Michael DeForge’s Heaven No Hell.