Episode 31: Lauren Weinstein
The Normel Person and Goddess of Warcreator talks Aisha Franz, Gary Panter, Carol Tyler, and more.
Columns
Ian Densford: Day Three
We all get lost in your work, but sometimes your work is drawing a whole lot of dead bodies: it takes a toll!
Ian Densford: Day Two
This day in history.
Fall into Degradation
In this week’s column, an Arcades Project-style history of cartoonists and their relationships with editors, publishers, and so-called fans.
Ian Densford: Day One
Ian Densford is here, and he’s brought his love of Robert Stack with him, in the form of drawings of Robert Stack.
I’ll Assign This Treason Case to You
Tegan turns her eye to Steve Ditko, and his Shade the Changing Man series. Gather round: there’s learning to be had.
Sarah Horrocks: Day Five
Mourning, the daily struggle, the experiences of time and history: taking a look at the present and moving forward. Sarah’s got the story.
More Realistic than the Sane Guys?
In his first example of the “Event” comics, cartoonist and publisher Tom Kaczynski looks at Ted McKeever’s Eddy Current, from 1987.
Sarah Horrocks: Day Four
If you only read one comic featuring a concise critique of backseat coaching today, then you probably read this one: it’s Sarah Horrocks, Day Four!
Sarah Horrocks: Day Three
Finding an emotional echo within the work of action based entertainment, pouring inspiration into creation: Day 3 is here.
Sarah Horrocks: Day Two
The best part of drawing comics is the part where you have to…pack a bunch of envelopes? Ya heard, it’s true, Day 2: Sarah tells it like it is, in today’s television criticism heavy installment.
Sarah Horrocks: Day One
Music criticism, donut questions and the Temple of the Golden Pavilion: it’s a heady stew that goes into Sarah’s melting pot, here at Day One of her Cartoonist’s Diary!
Mission: Comics & Art
In this installment of Retail Therapy, Leef Smith talks about what it takes to stand out and succeed in comics retail.
Simplify, Stupid
Does Will Eisner really deserve so much more respect than Don Martin and Dave Berg?
Episode 30: Laura Lannes
The cartoonist behind By Monday I’ll Be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage and the upcoming John, Dear discusses Laerte, Puiupo, and Sarah Manguso, as well as the uses–and perils–of humor in art.
Fantom Comics
In our latest installment of Retail Therapy, we spoke with Jake Shapiro, of Washington DC’s Fantom Comics!
We Need to Talk about Thanos
Tegan and Thanos go back a long way, but have both of them outgrown the comics where they met? It’s time to find out.
The Plight of the Superhero Comic Book
Working his way through a stack of recent mainstream and alternative superhero comics, Ken Parille finds many drowning in clichés and a few that get it right.
The Beguiling
Founded in 1987, The Beguiling has set a new standard in Canada for comics and graphic novel retail. Showcasing the largest selection of alternative, underground and avant-garde graphic story telling in the country, The Beguiling has a worldwide reputation for excellence. Peter Birkemoe has the deets!
Ted Shearer and His Visual Masterpiece, Quincy
Quincy’s energetic, juicy brush line and lively layouts showed that comic strip rendering could qualify as high art.
Third Eye Comics
In the latest episode of our retailer interview series, Third Eye Comics makesa couple of simple requests: better cover design, and more books like Chew. Wait, Chew?
Notes Toward a Future Understanding of Wally Wood
Why is the art of Wally Wood so hard to describe, so hard to get at? Why am I so interested in his art, while the similarly painstaking craftsmanship of a Joe Kubert or Will Eisner leaves me cold?
Colleen Frakes: Day Five
You can actually go home again, but sometimes that means you have to find a way to entertain other people’s children if you want to survive the flight. Colleen Frakes can tell you all about it!
Colleen Frakes: Day Four
Sometimes, even if it means the destruction of expensive technology, you have to document the theft of human food by our brothers and sisters that call the Alaskan sky home. Colleen has your Thursday covered!
