Article Archive
“We’ve Worked Side by Side for 25 Years”: Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim Interview
A conversation with the wife-and-husband team behind Poppies in Iraq, a memoir of Findakly’s childhood as an Orthodox Christian in Iraq.
Episode 23: Gina Wynbrandt
The creator of Someone Please Have Sex with Me talks Phoebe Gloeckner, Truth Zone, Chewing Gum, and more.
“A Tricky Cad”: The Gravies, Sawdust and Chester Gould
The meta-strips within 1950s and ’60s Dick Tracy.
Eye Buds: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics, Part 2
Is Yokoyama plugged into portability as well? Clearly he is into mobile eyes and mobile ears. How about mobile devices and mobile books, and the techniques of miniaturization, content formatting, and sensorial coordination that they require? What follows is a meandering stab at an answer.
The Len Wein Interview
In this 1979 interview, Len Wein talks about working for Marvel and DC, what it means for storytelling when fans instead of professional writers take over; balancing commercial considerations with creative ones; the origins of Swamp Thing; the thought process behind superhero team-ups like X-Men and The Defenders’ how he writes Batman, the Hulk, Spider-Man, Superman, and much more.
Art Young, To Laugh That We May Not Weep: A Conversation with Glenn Bray and Frank M. Young
Researching and compiling one of the very best under-recognized cartoonists.
Len Wein: 1948-2017
The life of the prolific and influential comics writer and editor, who co-created Wolverine and Swamp Thing.
Richard Kyle in Retrospect
Reflections on a comics critic, publisher and retailer, along with an unpublished interview.
