Month: January 2013
Maurice Sendak
A decades-long friendship between two artists.
Webcomics Capsule Reviews #2
It’s that time again: time for me to read a bunch of webcomics at random and tell you what I think of them.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/30/13 – The Face of Mainstream Comics)
A deep dive into digital manga pours out into an alternative newspaper reunion, and other things adrift.
The Ed Piskor Interview
The Pittsburgh-based cartoonist on Wizzywig, working with Harvey Pekar, and the Hip Hop Family Tree.
“Totally Righteous” Lower East Side Cartoonist Dies
Alan Shenker AKA Yossarian, March 3, 1945-January 14, 2013.
He Was Said To Have Loved It When You Called Him Big Poppa
Image Comics: The Movie
Heather Benjamin!
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where one of the bad guys tries to press Indy’s face against a conveyor belt that would pretty much sand off his skin. Your first glimpse of a Heather Benjamin drawing feels something like that.
Entertaining Comics
Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth on what EC accomplished and what it didn’t.
Advertisers Don’t Care About Moral Indignation
Howard Chaykin, Janelle Hessig, Dylan Horrocks, and a half-dozen more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/23/13 – Paradigm Squared)
Pucker up for DIRTY COMICS in this week’s erotic voyage toward… categorization!
Arrrr, I Am A Comic Book Writer and This Bed Is A Pirate Ship
The John Byrne comic that nearly broke this column’s back.
Growing Old in Gasoline Alley: Ninety-four Years And Counting
A multi-generational strip recalled.
Jack Ziegler: The Pen and Paper of Middle America
Richard Gehr talks to Jack Ziegler, whose innovative cartoons, often on the topics of food, cowboys and classical literature, have populated The New Yorker for thirty years.
