A personal account of time in the comic strips and aging in our real world; living with illness, one day at a time, like in the funnies.
Spotlight on lettering, as RJ Casey chats with Dean Sudarsky, cartoonist and English letterer for prominent French and Japanese cartoonists published in translation by New York Review Comics.
A reflection on memoir as morbid fiction, the exquisite torture of progress, and the unfinished English translation of Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future.
Since 2017, Charles Glaubitz has been exploring cosmic/comic symbols through his signature series, Starseeds. Mark Peters sits down with the artist to discuss method and metaphor.
Roaring in like a column of bats in the desert, it’s a storm of news!
Flashback to 2001, as we catch a contemporaneous newspaper reaction to the end of Happy Mania, the breakthrough series of women’s manga superstar Anno Moyoko. Writer Miyamoto Hirohito is translated here by Jon Holt and Saki Hirozane.
A rising star in contemporary kids’ comics and ‘hybrid’ comics/prose novels for middle grade audiences, multi-award-winning cartoonist Remy Lai discusses the mythology behind her latest release.
At the sound of the gun, you’re gonna run like the bullet’s behind you.
The movie adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings is in theaters now, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen has an interview with the screenwriter: Mr. Adrian Tomine.
Ryan C. explores a standout contemporary horror comics anthology: artist/editor/publisher Harry Nordlinger’s Vacuum Decay.
Picking up after nearly 20 years, Chris Mautner reunites with a favorite interview subject: artist and biologist Jay Hosler, whose all-ages science-based comics now seek to navigate a very different, ostensibly more hospitable, yet ever-unpredictable terrain.
I am rubber, you are glue; bounce off me, and stick to NEWS.
Once again, William Schwartz takes a look at contemporary webtoons – this time, Jang E’s popular tale of street-level, politically-aware superheroes, The Uncanny Counter.
Canadian arts and culture writer Vincent Cherniak presents a free-form appreciation of the latest release from veteran cartoonist Seth, with special appearances by critic Dominick Grace and cartoonist Charles Jaffe.
Hagai sits down with one of the quintessential 2000 AD artists: Arthur Ranson, whose body of work stretches back to the early 1970s, and continues to expand online today.
Standing before the wicked team of horses, saying “I will tame you.”
Out in North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Morgan’s Comics seeks to be a community gathering place. Zach sits down with Morgan Albritton herself to hear about how it’s going.
Your wretched editor writes about Chantal Montellier’s newly-translated Social Fiction and Frédéric Coché’s new, needs-no-translation L’Almageste.
Blasting though the realms of perception, Jean Marc Ah-Sen astral links with Tradd Moore, artist of a decade’s worth of lysergic genre comics and auteur of the soon-to-be-collected Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise.
Two dozen crabs on the trawl, and one of them is mine.
Longtime retailer and comics distributor Bud Plant remembers a friend: the collector, historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., who died earlier this month.
For 80 years, Tom Shapira has hunted the white whale… or, at least, he’s read 80 years’ worth of Moby-Dick comics. And the tale they tell is literal, prosaic: shrinking before the Leviathan.
Jason is chasing that strange alchemy of words and pictures, and with him is cartoonist Oliver East and illustrator/philosopher Helen De Cruz.
