THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/15/16 – Machine Shop)
This time, I shall preserve the margins of the front page with mechanical precision.
Article Archive
Episode 10: Lane Milburn
Milburn (Twelve Gems) discusses halting his Vice strip Envoy, a ‘lazy river’ theory of comics-making, the Closed Caption Comics group, and polarizing creators from R. Crumb to Frank Miller.
Outcault, Goddard, the Comics, and the Yellow Kid
How They Unwittingly Conspired To Bring a New Mass Medium into Popular Culture.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/8/16 – Verdammtendämmerung)
As above, so below: Hellboy is all about love.
An Interview with Chester Brown
Two masters of the comics medium talk sex, comics, religion, and critics.
Lauren Weinstein on 5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
The Girl Stories and Goddess of War artist talks about the newly translated 5,000 km per second, recently published by Fantagraphics.
Paper Girls
No one is writing about how four adult men came to create a successful comic book about four young girls.
The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager (1904-06)
Now, we wind the clock back to 1904 and take a look at what could be called the “lost” Sundays of Gus Mager – three short series that represent fascinating experiments in style and content.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/1/16 – Hee Haw)
Don’t ask me why there’s so many jokes this week. I went to three Memorial Day parties, so maybe I’m Fun.
Lulu Hitchcock Apocrypha!
Tim Hensley’s astonishing Sir Alfred #3, in which Alfred Hitchcock becomes what he already was: a comic-strip character.
Brecht Evens: Pantherman
Brecht Evens, Flemish author/artist of the gorgeously stylish The Wrong Place and The Making Of, is back with Panther.
