Excerpt: Ethics In The Gutter
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer.
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The Bocce Ball Boys
Noah returns, a doctor speaks, Nicholson finally gets it right, and official donuts are revealed.
“Immediate Metacognitive Dispersal”: An Interview with Kate Polak
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning.
Comics Dragnet 2
Time to gather up another round of webcomics…
Carved out, in the giant landscape of broken rocks
An interview, a column, an excerpt, a review: it’s a big old honk honk of a day.
Excerpt: Is This Guy For Real?
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown.
The Mort Walker Interview
In this in-depth interview, Mort Walker talks about growing up during the Great Depression, serving in the military, developing risque versions of his characters for overseas publishers, founding a comics art museum housed in a concrete castle, raising 10 kids, and much more.
Jerk City, USA
Mike Grell wrote a lot of issues of Green Arrow. But were any of them any good? Let Tegan take the wheel.
Smokestack Foo-mania: The Life and Notary Sojac of Bill Holman
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
A Long Day’s Journey That Got So Tight
Today in news that you already knew, but had to wait for the proof that it wasn’t just the writing on the wall.
“I Watch For Patterns”: An Interview with Aleš Kot
I guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations?
Where I’m Coming From (Part 1)
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics.
Mort Walker Passes Away at 94
The artist, whose tour of duty on Beetle Bailey was the longest run of any cartoonist in the history of the comics pages, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia
Tom McHenry: Day Five
Getting it together for the office party, facing the Wallace Shawn challenge: it’s been one hell of a week.
Mark Campos, 1962-2018: Seattle’s Unsung Comics Master Remembered
A tribute to the Seattle cartoonist’s life and work, with remembrances from friends and fellow cartoonists.
Tom McHenry: Day Four
Taking on the frustration of others, doing the bare minimum when dinner rolls around. What’s that? “The Libyans betrayed our cause!”
Small Worlds: An Interview With Matthew Pettit
It’s like what I was saying: when you create a story, you have to create that world. I was interested in not doing that again and using something I already knew, so I could jump right in.
