Month: June 2013
John Updike Said It Best When He Started Screaming Obscenities at a Parked Car
Back from the country, feeling mellow.
First Impressions
Let’s take a look at the work of a sextet of new cartoonists.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/12/13 – Dreams of the Future)
Computers & comics: “They’ll never work together!” But Jay Disbrow knew better…
“Your Theory Is More Than a Theory”: Zak Sally’s Interview with Peter Bagge (Part One)
Zak Sally talks to the creator of Hate about the end of the comic-book format, the rivalry between Weirdo and Raw, the “samey-ness” of modern graphic novels, and the gatekeepers who protect the concept of fine art.
“Disgusting Creatures”: The Simon Hanselmann Interview
Hanselmann is hugely prolific, and is almost unendurably active in the alternative comics scene in Melbourne. Talking to him has a similar stand-in-front-of-the-firehose feel.
Blood and Thunder: Craft is the Enemy
This argument began with a letter by James Kochalka (American Elf) in The Comics Journal #189 (in 2005, he would expand on his theory in The Cute Manifesto). Some readers found this letter inspirational; others, such as Jim Woodring, wrote in refutations.
Bridge Performance
It’s the day after Monday so that must mean Jog is here to set it right. Elsewhere it’s a sloooow newsday: Robin McConnell has posted a for-sale PDF version of his Inkstuds book. Peter Kuper profiled. And here’s a Kickstarter campaign and trailer for Very Semi-Serious, a documentary about New Yorker cartoonists.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/5/13 – Black, White)
Keeping you lean with picture activity.
One Life, Many Books: Michel Rabagliati’s Paul
I can’t believe that I ever found Rabagliati’s art “simple.”
