A Wrenched Virile Lore – This Week’s Links
Did you know Clark’s birthday is coming up? Happy birthday! There will be no column next week because the Americans are doing something with food.
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Funny Book Round Up
Congratulations, you’re in for a lucky-number-seven capsule reviews of all sorts of comics. Recent, good superhero comics! Small-press erotic comics! Decades-old alternative comics! Extremely unhappy commercial Japanese comics! Austin English brings you everything under the sun, and you should thank him.
Another Look At Bill Mauldin
There’s never a bad time to talk about Bill Mauldin, but it’s especially a good time when you’ve got a whole bushel of Maulidin trivia, history and gossip to share thanks to Bob tracking down a copy of 2020’s Drawing Fire: The Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin.
“I Wanted to Create a World”: An Interview with Lane Milburn
Lane Milburn’s newest graphic novel Lure sees the cartoonist making a departure from his previous work. In this conversation, he goes into how those changes came to be, the different kinds of non-comics work he takes on to support himself, and the dark business of “graphic recording”.
Guy On The March: Memories of being a cross-country tentmate with artist and cartoonist Guy Colwell
Today is the 35th anniversary of the conclusion of 1986’s Great Peace March of 1986. Michael Tisserand, who participated in the March, is celebrating by telling the lesser known story of the great Guy Colwell, who served as the March’s cartoonist. (A gallery of Colwell’s work is, of course, on hand).
Roadside Picnic – This Week’s Links
Your local food court may be abandoned, littered with the debris of a departed era, but we have not abandoned: the links!
Takahashi Rumiko and the Turning Point in the History of Manga and Anime
In a 2019 essay, artist and scholar Natsume Fusanosuke considers the historical impact of manga icon Takahashi Rumiko and her Urusei Yatsura on the audience for Japanese comics and animation at the dawn of the otaku era.
Excerpt: Generous Bosom #4
An exclusive preview of Conor Stechschulte’s Generous Bosom #4, courtesy of Breakdown Press awaits you!
Poetry Interrupted! Liberatore’s Sensitive Side
Cartoonist Nate Doyle visits an NYC showing of Tanino Liberatore’s work at the Philippe Labaune Gallery, and reports back that yes, there’s more to the artist of RanXerox than extremely big muscles being used in extremely violent fashions.
“Outside Our Sad Little Country, They Can Actually Achieve Something”: An Interview with Łukasz Kowalczuk
Łukasz Kowalczuk returned to making comics as an adult, fueled by memories of slime, a love of 80s licensed properties and role playing games. Since then, he’s translated Prison Pit, organized conventions and increased the world supply of neon-colored Polish comics by a healthy margin!
November Rain – This Week’s Links
Nobody is ever going to fix my roof; water is just going to keep dripping in until the rainy season passes. Luckily, the supply chain has not disrupted the delivery of these links – digital insulation to warm your soul.
Jeffrey Catherine Jones’ Unknown Muse
Robert K. Elder uncovers the little known story behind the model and muse behind some of Jeffrey Catherine Jones’ iconic painting and illustration work.
Comix Experience Talks The Good Asian with Pornsak Pichetshote & Alexandre Tefengki
Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience speaks to creators Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefengki about The Good Asian, their much-admired period crime series from Image.
Excerpt New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw
Greg Hunter takes an extended look at Dash Shaw’s Cosplayers in this excerpt from Hunter’s upcoming book,
New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw.
Speaking Out of the Silence: A Conversation with Dash Shaw about Discipline
In this conversation between Dash Shaw and Greg Hunter which took place earlier this month via Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore, Shaw discusses the background to his latest graphic novel Discipline, how his own Quaker upbringing informed its depictions of silence, and the real world Civil War letters that birthed the project.
An Intellectual Carrot – This Week’s Links
The wind is threatening to blow the walls off my building right now, but nothing stops the news! Join us in our affront to nature by clicking these links.
Comics and Revolutions: A Report from the Beirut Comic Art Festival
Eszter reports back from Beirut, with a look at the variety of comics, aesthetic concerns, philosophical questions and political grapplings that took place at The Beirut Comic Art Festival, which took place earlier this month.
Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All: Ted McKeever, Pencil Head and Leaving Comics
An examination of Ted McKeever’s final narrative comic, a kiss-off to the comic book industry, with comparisons to other famous Fuck You features.
“Life Is Weird and Wild and You Never Know”: An Interview with Steve Lafler
In this sprawling conversation, we catch up with Steve Lafler’s time making music in Mexico, raising children in houses laden with autobiographical comics, his return to the States and his most recent work, powered by Kickstarter support.
I Don’t Like The Sound Of Them Apples – This Week’s Links
“I can’t think of a hotter set of links than this.” -Scott Hott, World’s Hottest
Excerpt: Discipline
Check out this extended look at Dash Shaw’s latest graphic novel, Discipline, courtesy of NYRC!
“Whatever The Image Is, It’s Gotta Fit”: An Interview With Hurk
Joe Decie catches up with cartoonist Hurk just as Avery Hill prepares the release of his “crime caper” graphic novel, Jinx Freeze. Has Hurk forgiven the Trix rabbit? What are his favorite parts of making comics? How seriously should one take people who wish to be taken seriously? The answers to these questions, and more, are only to be found here.
Marvel Comics’ 1984 Dune movie adaptation: An Oral History
A new movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal SF fantasy Dune opens this week, but we’ve got something a little more old-school: an oral history of Marvel’s 1984 comic book adaptation of David Lynch’s divisive first film of the book.
From My Laboratory In The Castle East – This Week’s Links
Oh my soul! That is a lot of links!!
