Article Archive
Leah Wishnia!
Leah Wishnia is a reminder that being a lynchpin requires labor. As the founder, editor, and publisher of Happiness, the 26-year-old has harvested a biannual bumper crop of idiosyncratic young alternative cartoonists.
Zap: An Unpublished Victor Moscoso Interview
Please enjoy an unpublished Zap-related conversation with Victor Moscoso, conducted by Patrick Rosenkranz in Woodacre, Calif., May 17, 1972.
The Friendly Beasts
Winged creatures of all sorts—owls, bees, dragons—take flight in the comics of Ben Duncan, Lala Albert, and Ward Zwart.
Art as Transformation: WORDLESS!
If you’ve followed Art Spiegelman at all in the last 20 years, you’ve seen his lectures, filled with insight, wit, and lots of visuals projected onto screens. This has all been pretty swell — but predictable — stuff. But when have we ever seen Spiegelman take the stage to talk about comics with a giant movie screen and a six-piece jazz combo?
Slang and Profanity Illustrated: A Collaboration with My 14-Year-Old Self
The creator of Wendel and Stuck Rubber Baby revisits and illustrates an essay on profanity written by his awakening younger self.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/17/14 – Quality in Games Journalism)
Yeah! Screw comics! Goddamn nerds – in 2015, it’s all gaming, all the time!
Leanne Shapton: The Character Artist
Katie Haegele examines a multi-faceted career encompassing all manner of picture story books.
Zap: An Unpublished Gilbert Shelton Interview
This is an unpublished Zap-related conversation with Gilbert Shelton, conducted by Patrick Rosenkranz in 2012.
Can You Get to That?
War zone of the Mind.
When a Dog Was Art: Clifford McBride and the Immortal Napoleon
Back in those dear, dead days of yesteryear, cartoonists drew comic strips; they didn’t rule them with a straight-edge. And one of the best examples of the truth of this freshly brewed axiom is Clifford McBride’s dog strip, Napoleon.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/10/14 – Somebody Had to Say It)
Wow, comics time again. Just a few this week, but good ones! Big ones!
Gone Hollywood
Today, we have two new reviews for you. First, Hazel Cills writes about Inés Estrada’s Sindicalismo 89, a short comic documenting the lives of the residents of an apartment complex in Mexico City: The story focuses on three very different types of city dwellers who inhabit the building. There’s Mecha and her roommate Pau, two… Read more »
Webcomics Fix Your Life
There is a small but increasing number of webcomics dedicated to self-improvement. Because who knows how to live better than a webcartoonist?
Simon Hanselmann: Day 5
Black Friday.
