Sara Lautman: Day One
Karaoke conundrum.
Columns
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/4/17 – With You)
Rousing this site from its holiday nap with scandal and fever.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/14/16 – Branches)
Revisiting the standout from early this year.
Episode 16: Eddie Campbell (Part I)
On this episode, Eddie Campbell (Alec, Bacchus, From Hell) discusses the March trilogy, the early sports-page cartoonists, and much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/7/16 – Real Potential Energy)
A fleeing vehicle obliterated someone’s porch two blocks away while I was writing this and I didn’t even notice, because 100% of my attention is now turned to YOU.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/30/16 – A Haunting and Eloquent Line)
Capturing the main thrust in an exhausted post-holiday week.
A “Konversation” with George Herriman’s Biographer, Michael Tisserand (Part Two)
If one is going to spend ten years on a single subject, George Herriman is a good one.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/23/16 – Exactly What We Had Feared Would Happen Since Day 1)
Gather round, fam – it’s about to get sophisticated.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/16/16 – America Destroyed by Design)
Your father, the Devil.
A “Konversation” with George Herriman’s Biographer, Michael Tisserand (Part One)
“Herriman was talking about race and identity — as profoundly as anyone has, in my opinion — but I never see that as his big “Topic.” It was just part of his world, and the world he created, even if others were slow to recognize it.” -Michael Tisserand The first time I saw Michael… Read more »
Episode 15: Trungles
Trungles is a comics artist whose work is engaged with folklore, mythology, and vintage illustration, and who is included in the Mirror Mirror 2 anthology. In this episode, he talks Carolyn Nowak, Harry Clarke, Watchmen, and picture books.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/9/16 – Celebrating Election Fever!)
As always, we are here to aid you on which candidates to select.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/2/16 – Saints & Souls)
Fattened with cocoa and covered in egg, here we go again.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/26/16 – All of Us)
I’m upset that kids were trick or treating last weekend. What the hell?!
Gag Cartoons with Naked People: Abner Dean’s What Am I Doing Here?
Revisiting the “Brave Nude World” of philosopher, psychologist, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and cartoonist Abner Dean.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/19/16 – One Acronym Behind)
A vision of a finer Direct Market, filled with odd stapled objects and tricky continuing entertainments.
Unsung Al Smith, Record-Holding Unknown Cartoonist
Smith, like Jones, is a name so plentiful in English-speaking countries that it achieves virtual invisibility and thereby anonymity. And the only Al Smith who ever broke free of the amorphous mob of Smiths is the one that was a picturesque governor of New York: he attracted enough notice that he was able to run… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/12/16 – Sun Blind)
A gleaming spread of pretty damn unique picks, seated and waiting.
Episode 14: Anders Nilsen
Nilsen (the upcoming A Walk in Eden) discusses Chester Brown, Daniel Higgs, and the art of the live comic reading. Poetry may be useless but this podcast is very good!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/5/16 – October Twitter Handle)
Two past favorites join a rising rank of expense.
Dash Shaw: Day Five
At the Fantastic Fest.
Dash Shaw: Day Four
Premiering a movie at Fantastic Fest in Austin.
