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THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/30/15 – It Takes All Kinds)
One hell of a lot of comics this week. Just stay indoors.
Foxy Grandpa
Today, Dan writes about a slew of comics he’s read recently, including work by Aidan Koch, Anya Davidson, Benjamin Marra, Heather Benjamin, S. Clay Wilson, and Hugo Pratt, among others. Here’s an excerpt, in which he reviews the new anthology, Lagon: I was one of the lucky 400 who got this limited edition risograph comics… Read more »
Recent Reading
My recent reading — making my way through the piles. We’ve got your Koch, Benjamin, Davidson, Marra, Chandler, Pratt, Toth, Lagon, etc.
Funny Angry: An Interview with Jane Mai
Jane Mai’s See You Next Tuesday is a raucous bunch of short comics and scraps. This third book in what appears to be a loose trilogy is lighter and funnier, but allows itself to go deeper and darker as a result.
Restoring a Lost Psychedelic Anime Classic: An Interview with the Team Reintroducing Belladonna of Sadness
This 1973 film from Osamu Tezuka’s production studio was a commercial failure and remained unseen by wider audiences for years after its initial release.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/23/15 – Ideal Results)
The classics continue, because I let them.
Pushing the Limits: Comics and Creators That Stretch the Form
Comics as a self-aware form.
Tear Everything to Pieces: A Conversation with Liz Suburbia
An interview with the author of the debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Sacred Heart, which blends the Bible, punk rock, the magical realism of the Hernandez brothers, and trashy teen girl revenge flicks into a subtle story that explores alienation, gender, consent, sexuality, and trauma.
Episode 3: Yumi Sakugawa
Yumi Sakugawa (I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You, Ikebana) talks meditation, Megahex, and linework as handwriting.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/16/15 – Tabling at SPX B-nowhere)
If you want to see me in Bethesda, you’ve gotta wander the halls! Oh: here’s some comics.
A Lost Daniel Clowes Interview
In this 20-year-old, never-before-published interview, Daniel Clowes discusses working with the Ramones and his stint as “Stosh Gillepsie.”
Whole Lot of Preening Going On These Days, Not So Much Substance
Cynthia Rose on classic Belgian comics, and more.
The Belgians Who Changed Comics
“The Golden Age of Belgian Comics” features a rare collection, on show in France for the first time ever. Their pages detail a comics revolution, the era when – led by Tintin – the ninth art forever changed leisure on the continent.
