Sit yourself down for a career-spanning interview with eclectic cartoonist, illustrator and musician Leah Hayes – everything from dreams to songwriting to craft and parenthood is covered, as the artist tours her first children’s book.
That certainly was a lot of ways to describe Stan Lee.
The truth must be told, against all accusations of bias or partiality: I once drove two hours to buy an issue of this comic. True, it wasn’t the only comic book on my list. But I don’t get down to larger stores very damn often, and when I do, it’s a production. Lists are involved;… Read more »
In this excerpt from the “Fair Warning” column in The Comics Journal #309—introducing readers to up-and-coming artists—the cartoonist, teacher and self-publisher Hyena Hell talks to Kristy Valenti about movement and backgrounds in her work.
A short overview of a characteristic South Korean webtoon – not extremely popular, but the engine of small sectors of popular culture, and enough to cultivate a cartooning middle class increasingly foreign to the west.
A profile of Swedish publisher Horst Schröder, whose Epix Förlag brought the world of adult comics to Scandinavia, before collapsing amidst legal and financial woes.
Blissfully timed for the comics industry’s current problems over intractable historic fault lines, here’s a new documentary about Stan Lee made by people who are in every sense invested in The Man’s image rights. What can another examination of this most analyzed of men tell us that is not already known? What new perspective about… Read more »
The cartoonist Jason Overby considers a characteristic work by the late artist Morgan Vogel, and her presentation online in the persona labyrinth of online discussion.
The Sickness is a new horror series spanning an ambitious 14 serial issues; Hagai Palevsky sits down with Lonnie Nadler & Jenna Cha, who’ve been planning this project for years.
Remembering the artist who best defined the romance and lively youth of Marvel Comics in the ’60s and early ’70s; John Romita died on June 12.
*CONTAINS SPOILERS* Well hoss, since you’ve called my bluff, it behooves me to lay my cards on the table: I’m just not a big Wonder Woman person. Restrain your anger, please. As I believe I’ve mentioned, I had a solid few years right at the height of my youth devoted to straight-ticket Marvel. Nothing but,… Read more »
In this excerpt from The Comics Journal #309, cartoonist, self-publisher and distributor Inés Estrada talks to cartoonist, self-publisher and distributor John Porcellino.
In this 2003 interview, Tom Spurgeon interviews John Romita, who is best known for his 1960s run on The Amazing Spider-Man.
Italian comics vs. Italian football: find out who runs the streets of Naples as Valerio Stivé reports in from Comicon Napoli 2023.
Jason chats with Tom Kaczynski of Uncivilized Books about the potential impacts of AI and its “slick magic.”
PLEASE NOTE: Battle Action #1 is presently available in digital form, and as a print comic for UK distribution. The print-format series will be available in North American comic book stores beginning in July. * * * The first thing that hits you is Keith Burns’ aerial combat cover—listed as the “Newsstand” variant overleaf—a painted… Read more »
Montreal-based cartoonist, bookseller and video artist Arizona O’Neill wants to know what happiness means to artists. So, she conducted interviews with a dozen of them, and drew them as comics. Jean Marc Ah-Sen talks to her about this project, collected last year in book form.
Josh Bayer, Tom Hart, Hyena Hell & Carol Tyler bring you: The Ink Farm Jam Comic, Day 5, in which we say goodbye to the Ink Farm, save for those who remain.
Josh Bayer, Tom Hart, Hyena Hell & Carol Tyler bring you: The Ink Farm Jam Comic, Day 4, in which we consider the abyss, and we receive the blessing.
When last we checked in, for 2019’s Silver Sprocket release of Lorna, Benji Nate’s work held a pleasant roundness. The word I circled back around at the time was “cute,” perhaps a tendentious adjective but clearly the desired effect. That volume seemed held together by a handcrafted, dashed-off aesthetic, the kind of style that gets… Read more »
In this excerpt from Gary Groth’s interview with Annie Koyama from The Comics Journal #309, the two independent comics publishers talk about taste, editing and aesthetics.
Josh Bayer, Tom Hart, Hyena Hell & Carol Tyler bring you: The Ink Farm Jam Comic, Day 3, in which the tools are laid out, and support is offered.
