Colleen Frakes: Day Four
Sometimes, even if it means the destruction of expensive technology, you have to document the theft of human food by our brothers and sisters that call the Alaskan sky home. Colleen has your Thursday covered!
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Colleen Frakes: Day Three
Dungeons and Dragons, cooking, a little house built by a teenager, and more science: it’s Wednesday, and Colleen is holding it down in Alaska!
“They Changed My Life”: An Interview with Bill Schelly
A discussion with the comics scholar and Harvey Kurtzman biographer about his new memoir of growing up as a gay comics fan, the difference between fandom and criticism, the reality of comics as a profession, and his experiences with Steve Ditko.
The God Of Single Combat
Today Colleen explains trees, Helen joins the team, and then, you know, it’s Venom time.
Colleen Frakes: Day Two
Coffee and comics are great, but there’s no substitute for greenery. Need some science for that statement? Colleen has you covered, in day two of her Alaskan adventure!
“Getting to the Heart of the Matter”: The John Porcellino Interview (Part Two)
The conclusion of our career-spanning interview with the King-Cat artist and key figure in the minicomics movement.
Colleen Frakes: Day One
Sometimes you need to get away from it all: and sometimes that moment corresponds with an artist camp taking place in Alaska. Colleen Frakes has the details, in this week’s Cartoonist Diary!
Exhibiting or Characterized by Torpor
Tegan gets Metal, Deforge goes West and Marc-Oliver clicks the box marked “other”. It’s Friday, killer!
Episode 29: Tom Kaczynski
The cartoonist and publisher behind Cartoon Dialectics and Beta Testing the Apocalypse talks the New Gods, comic shops, memes, nostalgia, and more.
Excerpt: A Western World
Thanks to Koyama Press, we’re pleased to share an excerpt from A Western World, Michael DeForge’s upcoming graphic novel, to be released this month.
Time to Meet Your God
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo stake their claim that, yes, there is something new under that Gotham City sun. “You sure about that?”, Tegan replies.
Boxer’s Fracture
It’s time to talk retail with Jenn Haines, unleash a new reviewer, and then take a delicate dive.
The Dragon
Jenn Haines, owner of The Dragon, came all the way from Ontario to explain how she went ahead and created the future of comics retail about two decades ago.
Six Books from One Failed Bookstore
What can you learn from the comics found at a going-out-of-business sale? If you’re Matt Seneca, the answer is a whole hell of a lot.
The Reign Dancer
John P is here, as is Erik Larsen’s attempt at one-upping Dave Sim (go Erik!), as are your links.
“Getting to the Heart of the Matter”: The John Porcellino Interview (Part One)
When I first approached John Porcellino to do an interview back in 2012, he said that he really wanted to talk about his work. None of his previous interviews had ever simply zeroed in on the actual content of his long-running King-Cat zine. Now that his latest collection, From Lone Mountain, has been released, I… Read more »
The Weight of Postwar Life: Tsuge Tadao vs. Takano Shinzo, 1969
A never-before-translated vintage interview with the legendary mangaka Tsuge Tadao (Trash Market, Slum Wolf) conducted by a Garo editor
Fiona Smyth: Day Five
The week ends the way it started, with art, love and RuPaul. It’s a Fiona Friday Fantasia!
Reassessment of Virtuosity
Fiona Smyth is here, as is Ryan Heshka, and then there’s some reviews and links to boot. Thursday: it’s the day after Nine Inch Nails day!
