Leading Duck: An Interview with Peter Schilling about Carl Barks
Feb 27, 2015An 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
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man who Created MAD and Revolutionized Humor in America Excerpt
Feb 25, 2015In 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
An Interview with Breakdown Press
Feb 23, 2015Breakdown Press is among the most diverse and original publishers of comics in the UK right now, presiding over a small run of books united by their individuality, original story telling techniques, and sheer eye-popping attractiveness. Starting out with the publication … Continue reading
Cartoon Utopian: An Interview with Ron Rege Jr.
Ron Rege Jr. talks to Jay Babcock about the rich mixtures of ideas and references embedded in his new book, The Cartoon Utopia, encompassing everything from Nicola Tesla to Yoko Ono. Continue reading
Keiji Nakazawa, 1939-2012
Keiji Nakazawa, renowned throughout the world as the creator of Barefoot Gen, a first-hand account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, died on December 19th in Hiroshima, Japan. Continue reading
“What We Accept as Real”: A Tom Kaczynski Interview
The cartoonist and publisher of Uncivilized Books talks about starting his own publishing company, advertising, his interest in fake history, politics, and why he draws so many faces in his sketchbooks. Continue reading
The Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez Interview
Catching up with the artists of Love and Rockets. Continue reading
The Lives of Insects: On Photography and Comics
About photography, comics, and (mostly) Eddie Campbell. Continue reading
Spain Rodriguez Fought the Good Fight
Born March 2, 1940 in Buffalo, New York. Died November 28, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
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Spain Rodriguez: Tributes
Words of appreciation from Bill Griffith, Gary Panter, Trina Robbins, Carol Tyler, Joe Sacco, Justin Green, R. Crumb, Lorraine Chamberlain, Art Spiegelman, Gary Groth, Kim Deitch, and others, with more to come. Continue reading
