Small Press Spotlight
What I find impressive about many of the recently emergent small-press and boutique publishers is their rate of output.
What I find impressive about many of the recently emergent small-press and boutique publishers is their rate of output.
Loss means a lot of things in Building Stories, and, in keeping with the text’s complexity, loss is something that Ware’s characters dread, fight against, and fear, yet also something that they occasionally desire.
Eurocomics legend Fabrice Neaud abandons the autobiographical form … to emulate John Byrne?!
The creator of Building Stories talks to us about boxes, architecture, parents, and iPhones.
As I unboxed Building Stories, sitting on the floor and slowly spreading out its wondrous contents, my first thought was of Marcel Duchamp’s Box in a Valise, his “portable museum”.
In this excerpt from Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story we’re brought into Marvel in 1992, buzzing with marketing changes, sales figures and the just-departed Image artists.
Down ‘n dirty Chris Ware chat from the front lines of the comics store, where OH SO MANY THINGS are due.
In Building Stories, the game and the book-as-object are the frameworks through which a multilayered, intricate web of stories and relationships emerge.
The editor becomes the edited.
Osamu Tezuka and Jason Aaron and mission statements. And a special guest turn from Joe McCulloch.
New pages just arrived from Paul Pope—we all gather around the scanning station and drool.
A visit to the NY Art Book Fair complete with people watching, nostalgia and horse meat.
An excerpt from Jared Gardner’s biography of Skippy’s Percy Crosby.
The morning continues.
A day at First Second.
Wow! Movie reviews, books that probably won’t show up, pictures…secrets! Everyone dive in!!