Zach sits down with the creative team behind 20th Century Men—one of the standout genre comics of the last year, available in collected form this week—for a long discussion of mutual inspiration and intense collaboration.
Hey, did you hear about Wolverine? He’s the wild man from Canada.
Ritesh Babu goes deep, deep, deep into a 2018 horror comic from Pornsak Pichetshote, Aaron Campbell, José Villarrubia and Jeff Powell, in which characters are haunted by the specter of racial assumptions.
We catch up with Gib Bickel, manager of the Eisner-winning Columbus, OH comic shop Laughing Ogre Comics, about decades of history, the love of a good story, and the Ogre’s perspective on today’s distribution-related challenges.
A brief examination of how comics (and their reception) can change in the transition from digital serialization to print permanence.
Ian Thomas chats with Canadian veteran cartoonist and zine-maker Robin Bougie, whose Gutter Hunter, a survey of sensational and long-forgotten artifacts from global comics history, will soon see its third annual issue.
Nodding for approval, furious across the empty room.
Bob casts a critical eye on one of the most lauded comics of the decade: Sammy Harkham’s Blood of the Virgin, newly collected by Pantheon this month.
Ted Richards, one of the notorious “Air Pirates” that parodied Walt Disney’s characters and fought the company in court, died on April 21, 2023. John Kelly tells his story, as a host of friends and colleagues pay tribute.
Paul Constant sits down with 20-year cartooning veteran Julia Wertz, who’s done everything from webcomics to glossy magazines to major label books. This week sees the release of Impossible People, her new memoir of alcoholism and sobriety – and she’s got decades of comics still to come.
I threatened to turn the royal coronation into “a rock ‘n roll circus” and was placed on the No Fly List.
This week marks the release of Sammy Harkham’s collected Blood of the Virgin. Brian Nicholson followed the work throughout its 12 years of serialization, and considers the artist’s handling of sex, violence, and narrative focus.
Zach checks in on the Los Angeles celebrity comics mecca that started his own personal journey, Golden Apple Comics. Ryan Liebowitz is on hand. Websites, distribution woes, publishing endeavors, start-up production companies, and decades of comics history are all up for discussion.
Jason Novak speaks with Gary Sullivan about making comics with an eye towards collage and memories of defunct message boards, and then Eleanor Davis reveals some of the work method behind her excellent memoir, You & a Bike & a Road.
Matt Seneca holds on tight for a freewheeling talk with Geof Darrow, creator of The Shaolin Cowboy and longtime specialist in heavy, bloody detail.
A pregnant pause, staring through the other side of the mirror.
Tegan pays tribute to a living legend of cartooning, the indefatigable Sergio Aragonés.
Ambitious, pugnacious, opinionated – Maurice Horn was a massive personality in early American comics studies, an editor of behemoth tomes filled with arcana and dotted with errata. Andrew Farago memorializes this complicated talent, who died last December.
Matt Seneca read so many comics that a capsule column was demanded. After all, if you can’t put wordless NYRC books next to Ben Grimm, where will your Yokoyama references find a home?
Cartoonist and film director Dash Shaw catches up with cartoonist, art director and designer Joe Kessler in a sprawling conversation about the intersections of fine art and comics, the challenges and restrictions of the medium, and what their ideal reader might think of Kessler’s upcoming The Gull Yettin.
My sister sent me a Snapchat reading BEST POST-IT NOTE EVER. It was a sheet of paper reading “This is my life now.”
Remembering Rachel Pollack: a lifelong traveler in the arcane, the esoteric, and the revelatory.
It’s off to Salt Lake City to speak with Greg Gage about back issues, what it’s really like to deal with all those new distributors, and how companies like Marvel & DC might get things back on track: the answer probably isn’t in a movie theater!
Paul Karasik pays tribute to Ed Koren, the beloved New Yorker cartoonist who died last week at the age of 87.
