Glynnis Fawkes: Day Two
There’s one surefire antidote for the poison of bureaucratic language, and it’s at hand for us all, every minute of the day. Glynnis Fawkes: Day Two!
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Under a Black Sun
James Pisket’s Dansker (‘Dane’) is the story of a broken man, trapped in the shadow of the Armenian genocide and by the trauma of his youth.
Glynnis Fawkes: Day One
You may think you’ve heard every excuse children use to get out of going to school, but something tells me that the one the Fawkes kids pulled off is gonna prove you wrong.
Dammit Jim, I’m a Comics Retailer, Not a Doctor!
In the inaugural edition of our new op ed column, we’re sharing the unedited version of a pamphlet given out this week at the annual ComicsPro meeting between publisher and comic shop retailers in Charlotte, NC.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 9)
Final thoughts on what was really behind the feud between Al Capp and Ham Fisher.
Comics in Drawers
You really can find comics just about anywhere, although most people would have left the comics in this column behind. Thankfully, Marc Sobel has a different plan in mind.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 8)
Previously, the introduction, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and part seven of our story. VII. The Sordid End of Al Capp BUT CAPP WAS NOT FINISHED. In the fall of 1956, eight months after Fisher’s suicide, Al Capp took up the question that the Fisher episode had left hanging… Read more »
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 7)
The tragic ending of Ham Fisher
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 6)
In 1950, the Fisher-Capp feud boiled over, in the pages of Time and The Atlantic Monthly.
Episode 35: Carol Tyler
On the final installment, Carol Tyler (Soldier’s Heart, Fab4 Mania) talks settling scores and a musical approach to comics-making. Plus, a fond farewell as Greg goes underground.
OVERWORD 1 · Teen Titans
For a moment in time, the comic that mattered the most was the one with Nightwing in it. In this month’s installment of Michel Fiffe’s Files, he takes a long look back at The Teen Titans.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 5)
World War II begins, and the first shots in the Ham Fisher/Al Capp war are also fired.
The Reveries of E.A. Bethea
E.A. Bethea’s comics read as a detailed, confessional fever dream.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 4)
The Capp/Fisher feud heats up.
Ellen Lindner: Day Five
Perfection cannot remain ignored for long, even if it’s just eyebrows we’re talking about. Friday is here, and so is Ellen Lindner!
Ellen Lindner: Day Four
In today’s installment, Ellen embraces ritual to soothe her baseball woes, clears a deadline out of the way…and makes a giant life choice involving her hair color.
Ellen Lindner: Day Three
Opera, books, listening, Instagram. It couldn’t get more slice of life than it’s getting this Wednesday. A birthday approaches!
The Best Comics Of 2018: A Retail Perspective!
In our first Retail Therapy of 2019, we’re hearing from some of our favorite shopkeeps about what got them most excited to unlock the doors in 2018.
Ellen Lindner: Day Two
We all have our various ways to kill cubicle time when the work is slow to come. For example: Tea. On a Tuesday?
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 3)
The story continues with Al Capp and the birth of Li’l Abner.
Ellen Lindner: Day One
Ellen faces the withdraw that follows binge-watching, grapples with…what is that, Hale & Hearty? No matter. A new Diary begins!
George Freeman
According to Fiffe, George Freeman’s got it all–but don’t let a blurb convince you. Fiffe’s got the man’s actual work here to make the case!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 2)
Our story begins with Ham Fisher and the birth of Joe Palooka.
Episode 34: Ben Passmore
On the penultimate episode, the BTTM FDRS creator discusses the impact of Prince of Cats, shelving a post-collegiate magnum opus, and when leather jackets and moshing came to hip-hop.
