Time to Re-Evaluate Taniguchi Jirō’s Place in Manga
Aug 12, 2021Author and scholar Natsume Fusanosuke considers one of the great crossover mangaka from a Japanese and European perspective in this 2018 essay translated from the Japanese by Jon Holt & Teppei Fukuda. Continue reading
Short Run Co-Founder Kelly Froh on the Festival’s Future
Aug 11, 2021Short Run Comix & Arts Festival Co-Founder and Executive Director Kelly Froh discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the festival and how it has changed the convention landscape. Continue reading
As If By Chisel: Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters
Aug 10, 2021To look at the state of Barry Windsor-Smith’s 30-plus year project Monsters, Tegan makes the case you need to get started in the 1500s, and bring those engravings to the present day: that is, if you want to take Windsor-Smith’s linework as seriously as he does. Continue reading
MK Reed: Day Four
Jul 22, 2021Scenes from the early life of Hank, as MK Reed’s diary week continues. Continue reading
MK Reed: Day Three
Jul 21, 2021Garden work; a helpful pet; a fancy dress; trophies awarded before a thousand eyes in an empty room. Continue reading
Search and DestroyBandy Designys: New French Comics Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
Matt Seneca returned from his French vacation with a stack of comics. I know they call them something different over there, but i’m not over there, am I? Let’s see what he thought! Continue reading
Hare TonicHubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief
The story of Al Capp and Ham Fisher, two cartooning geniuses, their rise to celebrity and their furious interactions with each other, is the stuff of epic adventure fiction,
but here, it is fact. Continue reading
The Strip MineWelcome to the Strip Mine
One of the great joys of comic book collecting is longbox surfing. You know what I mean, standing for hours sifting through filthy, disorganized boxes, carefully un-taping bags of one cheap floppy after another, scanning the credits, flipping the pages, … Continue reading
Hare TonicThe Life and Dedication of Art Young: An Impassioned Cartoonist of Uncompromising Principle
A look at one of the early masters of the medium, an artist devoted to principle at a time when cartoonists weren’t yet noted for doing much more than making funny faces. Continue reading
Retail TherapyFantagraphics Books & Gallery
Our latest installment of Retail Therapy stayed close to home–by speaking with Larry Reid, of the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery! Continue reading
10 Cent MuseumThe Strange Case of Stan Lee
When Lee passed away last week, non-comics world friends reached out to me to express condolences. They knew I loved comics and that I’m interested in the history of the medium… Clearly, this was a loss, right? Continue reading
Fiffe FilesBaron and Messner-Loebs’ Flash
Fiffe had a Flash itch, and like any real comics fan, there’s only one true Flash: Wally West, the fastest IRS employee in the history of American taxation. Continue reading
Ice Cream For BedwettersWhat He Taught Me
Stan, Jack, and Stan’s kid brother didn’t create Thor, the Norse god of thunder, or Loki, or Odin, or Asgard, or any of all that. Asserting that they did is silly on the face and yet … Continue reading
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