Eleanor Davis: Day Two
Contemplating online feminism
Article Archive
You Lot Won’t Know What to Do
Feiffer, Feiffer, Feiffer, Eleanor Davis, Frank Miller, Charles Burns, et cetera.
“It Was a Complete Revolution for Me”: A Conversation with Jules Feiffer
On the publication of Kill My Mother, which is being marketed as his first original graphic novel, the legendary cartoonist talks about noir, politics, the state of comics, and the tyranny of drawing backgrounds.
Eleanor Davis: Day One
Some assignments are more difficult than others.
The Great Comic Book Heroes Intro & Afterword by Jules Feiffer
In this expanded intro and afterword to Jules Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes, he explains how the art and business of comic books has evolved since its origin.
Wring Your Hands All You Want
Collins talks to Meghan Turbitt, and various links about the comics issues of the day.
Meghan Turbitt!
A conversation with the creator of #foodporn and Lady Turbo about sex, Catholicism, grotesque imagery, the transition from fine art to comics, and “hot dudes serving food.”
Brian Evenson on Ed the Happy Clown
Fiction writer and academic Brian Evenson joined Mike Dawson for a conversation about Chester Brown’s early graphic-novel, Ed the Happy Clown, which was first serialized in the one man anthology, Yummy Fur, and subsequently collected in a variety of formats.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/20/14 – The Good Parts)
The loves of a mangaka: XPOSED.
Manga vs. Art History: Hayashi Seiichi at SISJAC
Modern art, comics, and some words with Seiichi Hayashi.
Shadow Puppets
The first installment of a new monthly column, in which the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer uses principles of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and comparative mythology to deliberately overthink the symbolic language of comics.
“What’s Actually There on the Page”: A Conversation with Brian Evenson about Chester Brown
The novelist and critic talks about the various incarnations of Ed the Happy Clown, the effects of format on the reader, changing his own mind on the best version of the story, and comics criticism in general.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/13/14 – Tangled Notes Toward an Early Biography of Ryōichi Ikegami)
The gangly years of an old legend.
