Article Archive
The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World – Part One
Part 1 of a huge two-part feature! John Kelly speaks with the artists who built the Playhouse: Pee-wee’s Playhouse, with all its puppets, gadgets and merchandise. Many unseen images await!
The Dying of the Light: My Grandmother, Dementia, Time in the Comic Strip, and Roses in December by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers
A personal account of time in the comic strips and aging in our real world; living with illness, one day at a time, like in the funnies.
“A Close Approximation To The Way That They’re Thinking”: Talking Lettering with Dean Sudarsky
Spotlight on lettering, as RJ Casey chats with Dean Sudarsky, cartoonist and English letterer for prominent French and Japanese cartoonists published in translation by New York Review Comics.
A Boy’s Life
A reflection on memoir as morbid fiction, the exquisite torture of progress, and the unfinished English translation of Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future.
Fighting the “Masters of White Poop”: Charles Glaubitz On the Kirbyesque Power of Starseeds
Since 2017, Charles Glaubitz has been exploring cosmic/comic symbols through his signature series, Starseeds. Mark Peters sits down with the artist to discuss method and metaphor.
How To Steal The World – This Week’s Links
Roaring in like a column of bats in the desert, it’s a storm of news!
The Conclusion of Happy Mania
Flashback to 2001, as we catch a contemporaneous newspaper reaction to the end of Happy Mania, the breakthrough series of women’s manga superstar Anno Moyoko. Writer Miyamoto Hirohito is translated here by Jon Holt and Saki Hirozane.
On Hybrid Books and Hungry Ghosts: An Interview with Middle Grade Cartoonist Remy Lai
A rising star in contemporary kids’ comics and ‘hybrid’ comics/prose novels for middle grade audiences, multi-award-winning cartoonist Remy Lai discusses the mythology behind her latest release.
Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) – This Week’s Links
At the sound of the gun, you’re gonna run like the bullet’s behind you.
Comic and Film: A Conversation with Adrian Tomine on Shortcomings
The movie adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings is in theaters now, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen has an interview with the screenwriter: Mr. Adrian Tomine.
Transmissions from the Void: On Vacuum Decay and Harry Nordlinger’s Evolving Nihilistic Vision
Ryan C. explores a standout contemporary horror comics anthology: artist/editor/publisher Harry Nordlinger’s Vacuum Decay.
“I Just Wanna Keep Doing This”: Jay Hosler on 20 Years of YA Comics
Picking up after nearly 20 years, Chris Mautner reunites with a favorite interview subject: artist and biologist Jay Hosler, whose all-ages science-based comics now seek to navigate a very different, ostensibly more hospitable, yet ever-unpredictable terrain.
I Know You Are, But What Am I – This Week’s Links
I am rubber, you are glue; bounce off me, and stick to NEWS.
Local Heroes: The Uncanny Counter
Once again, William Schwartz takes a look at contemporary webtoons – this time, Jang E’s popular tale of street-level, politically-aware superheroes, The Uncanny Counter.
Seth’s Palookaville 24: “Can a memory die of neglect?”
Canadian arts and culture writer Vincent Cherniak presents a free-form appreciation of the latest release from veteran cartoonist Seth, with special appearances by critic Dominick Grace and cartoonist Charles Jaffe.
All Very Existential: An Interview with Arthur Ranson
Hagai sits down with one of the quintessential 2000 AD artists: Arthur Ranson, whose body of work stretches back to the early 1970s, and continues to expand online today.
Let Forever Be – This Week’s Links
Standing before the wicked team of horses, saying “I will tame you.”
Morgan’s Comics
Out in North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Morgan’s Comics seeks to be a community gathering place. Zach sits down with Morgan Albritton herself to hear about how it’s going.
The Devil Never Sleeps
Your wretched editor writes about Chantal Montellier’s newly-translated Social Fiction and Frédéric Coché’s new, needs-no-translation L’Almageste.
“Go Bleed On That Page, Hero!”: The Tradd Moore Interview
Blasting though the realms of perception, Jean Marc Ah-Sen astral links with Tradd Moore, artist of a decade’s worth of lysergic genre comics and auteur of the soon-to-be-collected Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise.
Goodbye Reason, Goodbye Rhyme – This Week’s Links
Two dozen crabs on the trawl, and one of them is mine.
Remembering Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
Longtime retailer and comics distributor Bud Plant remembers a friend: the collector, historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., who died earlier this month.
