Monthly Archives: February 2015
Leading Duck: An Interview with Peter Schilling about Carl Barks
An interview with the writer of Carl Barks’ Duck, in which the author discusses comics as “paper movies,” Carl Barks’s place in the canon, and his personal distaste for Uncle Scrooge Continue reading
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Schilling on Barks, Kirby on minicomics, and a weekend’s worth of comics reading. Continue reading
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man who Created MAD and Revolutionized Humor in America Excerpt
In this excerpt from Bill Schelly’s forthcoming biography Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America, the author chronicles the lifespan of the magazine Humbug. Rebounding from the abrupt cancellation of Trump (the magazine he had left Mad to produce) after only two issues, Kurtzman rallied an all-star cast of cartoonists for their next endeavor. Continue reading
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/25/15 – Shades of the Grey Lady)
Spicy comics – and the men who write them! Or is it only one man after all… Continue reading
