John Kelly recalls The Colorist, a 1990 prose novel by Susan Daitch set in the world of comic book coloring – and, he adapts a recent interview the cartoonist Frank Santoro conducted with Daitch to digital form.
I can’t believe it’ not news! What– it is?! (I smiled then, like all of life’s burdens had been lifted from my shoulders. It was just a matter of time.)
The underground cartoonist and comics historian Trina Robbins presents an appreciation of Lily Renée, a Holocaust survivor well-remembered by Golden Age enthusiasts for her 1940s fantasy/SF and adventure strips for Fiction House.
Helen Chazan dives deep into one of the most remarkable vintage manga releases of the year: Orochi, collecting turn-of-the-1970s horror shorts by the redoubtable Kazuo Umezz.
After 24 years, we reunite with Kevin Eastman, one of our most (in)famous interview subjects. Jason Bergman speaks with a man exhausted by the major media world, who’s returned with much success to the comics that made his name so long ago.
The power to drive up back issue prices… is this how God feels?
The art of Nick Drnaso inspires a great deal of debate, and Lane Yates has a proposition: it is a most appropriate means of communicating the message of Drnaso’s books.
Andrew Farago presents a heartfelt tribute to Paul Coker Jr., a pro’s pro of comics and animation, with comments by MAD colleagues and prominent admirers alike, and dozens of images spanning his entire career.
Valerio Stivé pays a visit to a living legend of Italian alternative comics, for a discussion of his recent “Notebooks” of personal stories from Ukraine and Russia – and a special preview of his next book, on the 2022 invasion.
They told me I’d flown too close to the sun. But I was hotter than that.
The world mourns the loss of one of its most talented artists, Jean-Jacques Sempé.
Can you feel nostalgia for a time that you can’t remember – even from before you were born? Maybe it’s not nostalgia, but natsukashisa. In this 2014 essay, Natsume Fusanosuke examines Sazae-san, a Japanese pop culture institution which began as a newspaper strip addressing the current day, and became a television platform for fond feelings in an eternal midcentury.
John Kelly takes a look at Brian Doherty’s new history of underground comics – and takes his concerns to the author.
Artists in conversation, as Joe Decie chats with Daniel Locke, a specialist in scientific and nonfiction comics in the UK small-press and graphic novel scenes.
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Tom Shapira dives deep into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, a ‘dark future’ Turtles comic marking the return of the series’ original creators… sort of.
Cynthia Rose peels back the history of the secret life inside the bar Père Lunette: comic art born of militant politics. While the 19th century bar served society’s lowest, it also welcomed socialists, anarchists and Communards. In Père Lunette, we watch caricature evolve and witness the art’s most troubled hours. Its art personifies laughter as resistance.
Mark Arnold, editor and publisher of The Harveyville Fun Times!, remembers the longtime Harvey editor Sid Jacobson – also a novelist and a Billboard Top 10 hit songwriter, who enjoyed late-in-life popularity as a writer of nonfiction comics. Jacobson died on July 23.
It’s time to catch up with Eisner-winning comics writer David F. Walker, whose work encompasses new DC superheroes, classic Marvel team-ups, Shaft, successful crowdfunding campaigns, and a fascination with auteurs.
