Article Archive
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/6/14 – $94.3 million to spend on comics.)
Dapper Dan! Can I write about movies! Uhh, Boyhood hasn’t opened around here yet…
Etta Hulme: Trailblazing with Ettatorial Cartoons
Etta Hulme is an icon in editorial cartooning, a trailblazer for women cartoonists. She was a full-time editoonist on the staff of a major metropolitan daily newspaper before any other woman cartoonist was; she was widely syndicated at a time when no other woman cartoonist was.
Dance to the Go-Go’s and Bow Wow Wow
Whit Taylor goes to Baltimore, Greg Hunter experiences the Holdens, and much more.
Straddlers: A Report from the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference
Academics, health professionals, and cartoonists including Ellen Forney and James Sturm gather to discuss the special pitfalls and benefits of creating comics regarding health issues. “I had never discussed comics in such a calculated way before.”
The Plugged-Up Parodist: Nick Maandag’s Constipated Comedy
Visually, there are very few gifted cartoonists who are as remorselessly ungiving as Nick Maandag. There is no succulent texture in his universe, no oasis of exfoliating leafy beauty to offer relief from the aridity of the art.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/30/14 – We Lost the Eisner, So Looks Like I Can Finally Post Some Smut)
Whew, thank heavens that run-in with prominence is over!
Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK
Comics Unmasked is Britain’s largest-ever show about UK comics. It also offers the first public peek at the British Library’s enormous comics collection.
The Tom Tomorrow Interview
Tom Tomorrow and Gary Groth chat about comics, politics, and the world of Tomorrow in this interview from TCJ #165.
Drunk Tour Diary
Hothead Paisan
