Tomi Ungerer: 1931-2019
Feb 15, 2019He was an artistic force of nature for more than sixty years — a cartoonist, a children’s book author, a painter, a writer, a sculptor, a sexual provocateur, a political dissident, and more. Continue reading
“I Was Terrified – And Therefore, I Accepted”: An Interview with José Hernández
Feb 14, 2019Alex Dueben spoke with award-winning Mexican cartoonist José Hernández about the recent US release of his Che Guevara graphic biography, and why the subject remains such a fertile one for artists and readers around the world. Continue reading
David Mazzucchelli Remembers Ted Stearn
Feb 12, 2019David Mazzucchelli’s appreciation for Ted Stearn’s talents as an artist, animator, and cartoonist. Continue reading
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 8)
Feb 13, 2019Previously, the introduction, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and part seven of our story. VII. The Sordid End of Al Capp BUT CAPP WAS NOT FINISHED. In the fall of 1956, eight months after … Continue reading
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 7)
Feb 7, 2019The tragic ending of Ham Fisher Continue reading
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 6)
Jan 29, 2019In 1950, the Fisher-Capp feud boiled over, in the pages of Time and The Atlantic Monthly. Continue reading
Symbol ReaderShadow Puppets
The first installment of a new monthly column, in which the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer uses principles of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and comparative mythology to deliberately overthink the symbolic language of comics.
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This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/13/14 – Tangled Notes Toward an Early Biography of Ryōichi Ikegami)
The gangly years of an old legend. Continue reading
This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/6/14 – $94.3 million to spend on comics.)
Dapper Dan! Can I write about movies! Uhh, Boyhood hasn’t opened around here yet… Continue reading
Hare TonicEtta Hulme: Trailblazing with Ettatorial Cartoons
Etta Hulme is an icon in editorial cartooning, a trailblazer for women cartoonists. She was a full-time editoonist on the staff of a major metropolitan daily newspaper before any other woman cartoonist was; she was widely syndicated at a time when no other woman cartoonist was. Continue reading
Comics ChroniclesThe Plugged-Up Parodist: Nick Maandag’s Constipated Comedy
Visually, there are very few gifted cartoonists who are as remorselessly ungiving as Nick Maandag. There is no succulent texture in his universe, no oasis of exfoliating leafy beauty to offer relief from the aridity of the art. Continue reading
This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/30/14 – We Lost the Eisner, So Looks Like I Can Finally Post Some Smut)
Whew, thank heavens that run-in with prominence is over! Continue reading
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