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.
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer.
Noah returns, a doctor speaks, Nicholson finally gets it right, and official donuts are revealed.
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning.
Time to gather up another round of webcomics…
An interview, a column, an excerpt, a review: it’s a big old honk honk of a day.
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown.
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.
Mike Grell wrote a lot of issues of Green Arrow. But were any of them any good? Let Tegan take the wheel.
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
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 guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations?
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics.
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
Getting it together for the office party, facing the Wallace Shawn challenge: it’s been one hell of a week.
A tribute to the Seattle cartoonist’s life and work, with remembrances from friends and fellow cartoonists.
Taking on the frustration of others, doing the bare minimum when dinner rolls around. What’s that? “The Libyans betrayed our cause!”
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.