FRIDAY 8pm
I Knew this Panel was Trouble when it Walked into my Office
It seems like "noir" is being tacked on to just about every sub-category of the genre these days: fantasy-noir, science fiction-noir, vampire-noir, and so on. And even if it isn't attached to the genre label, the word appears on book jackets and in reviews in droves. But what do we mean when we say something is "noir"? What are the touch-stones that make something noir: must noir be gritty, violent, dangerous, or require a m...
Published on March 02, 2010 17:40