Few things are more readily observable in comics than the line a cartoonist uses to draw on the page. In this newly translated excerpt from a 1997 study, Natsume Fusanosuke looks to the examples of manga artists Tanioka Yasuji and Sugiura Shigeru to explore the fundamental characteristics of the artist’s line.
Jason Bergman chats with Jordan Mechner, pioneering designer of computer games like Prince of Persia, and more recently a writer of historical adventure comics. Now he’s turned cartoonist with Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, a 320-page solo graphic memoir out this week.
After a three-year search we have finally hired a TikTok czar to an ironclad lifetime contract. Now to look at the news while I merge into traffic.
RJ Casey is back to give you a healthy start to spring with even more sleep schedule tips! Plus three zine reviews.
The site of countless comics-buying pilgrimages will vanish this summer, as the Koch Comics Warehouse, a towering trove of pamphlets, books and everything else, closes down for good. Zach Rabiroff chats with proprietor Joseph Koch about this decision, and what happens next.
This is the sixth installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.”
Lucy Knisley, a cartoonist well-known for her work in memoir, interviews Lonnie Mann, who’s just released his first book-length work of autobiographical comics, Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood.
“To my successors, I leave… these links!” (All the lawyers oooohh.)
Ian Thomas presents his notes on A Cultural History of the Punisher, a recent book from veteran writer-on-comics Kent Worcester which seeks to analyze the shifting context of Marvel’s inescapable vigilante character.
Robert Aman sits down with Finnish cartoonist Ville Ranta, whose work ranges from memoir to historical fiction to ribald political satire – with a special emphasis on his efforts to swim in the big pool of French comics publishing.
Eight and a half weeks… I’m no Mickey Rourke.
Presenting: a special online edition of a lecture delivered by Scottish cartoonist Malcy Duff on the intuitive nature of drawing comics.
An obituary for one of the first women to draw superhero comics, with standout works throughout the Silver Age and beyond; Ramona Fradon died on February 24, aged 97.
Zach Rabiroff chats up an impresario of contemporary underground horror comics: Harry Nordlinger, editor and publisher of the ongoing comic book anthology Vacuum Decay, and artist of comics like the recent Floating World release Night Cruising.
“Who’s a good boy?” The dog transforms into news links. “Holy SHIT.”
This is the fifth installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.”
A loving tribute to a hugely prolific, hugely curious writer, artist and editor of Italian comics, and a scholar of world comic strips. Alfredo Castelli died on February 7, 2024, aged 76.
The artist Andrew White discusses Le Dernier Sergent 1: Les Guerres immobiles, a major new work from French cartoonist and memoirist Fabrice Neaud.
Edward Dorey interviews Elizabeth Fiend, aka Luna Ticks: musician, television host, zine-maker, and contributor to underground comics like Weirdo and Tits & Clits in the heat of the punk era.
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Steven Brower details the lineage of famous public domain cartoon character Mickey Mouse, who is not the great man of history, but instead one of several cats, rabbits, foxes, etc., before and after.
The classic burden: too many comics. Yes, RJ Casey bought too many comics at November’s Short Run Comix & Arts Festival – too many for last month, so here’s an extra-long column reviewing the rest of ’em.
This is the fourth installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.”
An extensive talk with one of the most instantly recognizable stylists of the past 35 years, on the occasion of a mammoth new retrospective, Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean.
