Excerpt: Ethics In The Gutter
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer. Continue reading
“Immediate Metacognitive Dispersal”: An Interview with Kate Polak
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning. Continue reading
Excerpt: Is This Guy For Real?
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown. Continue reading
“I Watch For Patterns”: An Interview with Aleš Kot
I guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations? Continue reading
Mort Walker Passes Away at 94
The artist, whose tour of duty on Beetle Bailey was the longest run of any cartoonist in the history of the comics pages, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia Continue reading
Small Worlds: An Interview With Matthew Pettit
It’s like what I was saying: when you create a story, you have to create that world. I was interested in not doing that again and using something I already knew, so I could jump right in. Continue reading
An Upbringing That Was Very Much Out of the Ordinary: An Interview with Cullen Murphy
The former writer of Prince Valiant, and son of artist John Cullen Murphy, talks about growing up in Connecticut, surrounded by many of the most successful cartoonists of the Twentieth Century. Continue reading
