Article Archive
Making the Sausage
Today on the site: Matt Seneca interviews Guy Colwell. MS: Comics is such a natural refuge for figurative art that it’s makes sense you’d end up there. But Inner City Romance also incorporates a lot of abstraction, both in the visuals and the plots, such as they are. What appealed to you about the long… Read more »
Street Talk: The Guy Colwell Interview
Guy Colwell’s Inner City Romance is the most politically cogent of the San Francisco underground comics by leaps and bounds.
Roger Armstrong: Conversing with One of Cartooning’s Better Sprites
Armstrong (1917-2007) was a man-sized pixie with a gray beard and a haystack hair-do and dark Mephistophlean eyebrows, an archetypically elfin presence who saw the humor in humanity’s parade and delighted in it.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/29/15 – Break Your Back with Books)
Just a simple, old-fashioned column this week. No fuss.
The Daniel Clowes Interview
In this 1992 interview from The Comics Journal #154, Gary Groth and Peter Bagge talk with Daniel Clowes about art school, Lloyd Llewellyn, and the beginnings of Eightball.
Spring Cleaning
Show and tell.
Katie Skelly on The Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka
The creator of Nurse Nurse talks about a pivotal book in the manga master’s oeuvre.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/22/15 – Sex Controls the World and I Control Sex)
The life of a working man, EXPOSED.
SuperMutant Children: An Interview with Jillian Tamaki
The acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator on SuperMutant Magic Academy, Degrassi, and more.
Herb Trimpe: 1939-2015
Longtime Marvel Comics artist Herbert W. (or “Happy Herb” as he was frequently identified in comic book credits) Trimpe died suddenly this week at the age of 75.
Reading Centrala
A survey of the new Polish/English imprint’s early and recent output, which ranges from all-ages material to autobio to stuff that’s far stranger.
Cartoon Solitude
A look at sentimentality in an Ivan Brunetti image and time in a Charles Schulz strip.
