Colleen Frakes: Day Three
Dungeons and Dragons, cooking, a little house built by a teenager, and more science: it’s Wednesday, and Colleen is holding it down in Alaska!
Dungeons and Dragons, cooking, a little house built by a teenager, and more science: it’s Wednesday, and Colleen is holding it down in Alaska!
Coffee and comics are great, but there’s no substitute for greenery. Need some science for that statement? Colleen has you covered, in day two of her Alaskan adventure!
Sometimes you need to get away from it all: and sometimes that moment corresponds with an artist camp taking place in Alaska. Colleen Frakes has the details, in this week’s Cartoonist Diary!
The cartoonist and publisher behind Cartoon Dialectics and Beta Testing the Apocalypse talks the New Gods, comic shops, memes, nostalgia, and more.
Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo stake their claim that, yes, there is something new under that Gotham City sun. “You sure about that?”, Tegan replies.
Jenn Haines, owner of The Dragon, came all the way from Ontario to explain how she went ahead and created the future of comics retail about two decades ago.
What can you learn from the comics found at a going-out-of-business sale? If you’re Matt Seneca, the answer is a whole hell of a lot.
A never-before-translated vintage interview with the legendary mangaka Tsuge Tadao (Trash Market, Slum Wolf) conducted by a Garo editor
The week ends the way it started, with art, love and RuPaul. It’s a Fiona Friday Fantasia!
Fiona gets a font, and within it (and the joy of Rupaul) finds the fortitude to scrap with some illness. It’s Thursday, people.
Teaching comics, talking bad investment strategies with Frank, and teaching tracing paper tips: it’s Fiona, Day Three!
Sometimes, the good news just won’t stop coming. One way to counteract that? Watching a bad movie…on purpose!
After you see art at one place, you’re gonna end up seeing art at another, and then another–that’s just how things go in the world of Fiona Smyth.
Jared Smith from Big Planet Comics talks about what its taken to survive and thrive within his ever-expanding empire. But don’t ask him if he reads comics on the clock: it’s a sore subject.
In Budnik’s comics, he reveals his deepest fears and the ongoing, active experience of living with mental illness.
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Alejandra to reflect on one giant week, and all the history it’s brought to the surface.
Well, you knew it was coming. Today, Alejandra finally makes it to the film shoot to see how the magic gets made.
Jason Leivian from Floating World talks about the past, present and future from the vantage point of one of North America’s most beloved comic book stores.
There’s no magic bullet to fixing a bad day, but checking in with friends, filling up on some good food and…cold showers? Hey, everyone has their thing!
Being exhausted after a long trip can make anybody say crazy things, but being bored by Predator? That’s a bridge too far!
Getting ready for a trip out of town, snuggling in bed and getting yahself all kinds of sexy. There’s no better way to start off a week.
If you’re going to write about Crisis On Infinite Earths, it’s best to go deep, and in Tegan’s latest installment of Ice Cream for Bedwetters, that’s exactly what she does.
What’s good and bad in new webomics — and a look at what could be called “Tumblr style.”
The Photobooth and Long Red Hair creator discusses Geneviève Castrée, Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, Ames Lettering Guide revelations, and her favorite circus art.