Month: June 2019
“We Need to Talk about Illness in a Way That’s Not Paternalistic”: Sloane Leong Talks to Josune Urrutia
Sloane Leong has been speaking with the her fellow artists-in-residence at the Maison des Auteurs in Angouleme, France. This week, she spoke with Josune Arrutia about cancer, Susan Sontag, and the growing interest in what’s being called “graphic medicine.”
AJ Dungo: Day Five
Closing out the week the way it began–by getting out the door and taking a chance. Today, AJ paints.
“Once the Ink Was Done, That Was It, Tough Luck”: An Interview with Kat Verhoeven
Begun in 2012, Kat Verhoeven’s Meat and Bone has found its way to print this year. Alex Dueben spoke with Kat about the experience of bringing her webcomic to print, and what’s changed about her work over the last eight years.
AJ Dungo: Day Four
There’s more than one way to grieve, and there’s no way to do it wrong: but there’s definitely poetic methods, and often, that’s the way you should go.
A Clyde Fans Roundtable
Seven comics scholars and Seth experts discuss the long-awaited, twenty-years-in-the-making complete collection of Seth’s Clyde Fans.
AJ Dungo: Day Three
We had to cut the panel where AJ said “easier said than done, pal”–it just seemed to on the nose.
Excerpt: In Waves
Check out a 26 page excerpt from AJ Dungo’s In Waves, released this week from Nobrow!
Eric Stanton: Master Fetish Artist
The story of the bondage artist who shared a studio with Steve Ditko and possibly helped create Spider-Man
AJ Dungo: Day Two
When you gotta go, you gotta go: there’s a reason that the old sayings get that way. It’s because they never stop being true.
AJ Dungo: Day One
Starting the week off on the right foot, with the right kinda attitude: is that the AJ Dungo way? We’ll find out as a new Diary begins!
“We Want to Become, But We Don’t Even Know Who We Are”: Sloane Leong Talks to Kathrine Avraam
Sloane Leong has been speaking with the her fellow artists-in-residence at the Maison de Auteurs in Angouleme, France. This week, she spoke with Kathrine Avraam about exploring comics with modern technology hand in hand, loud music, and her hometown scene.