THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/15/15 – High Self-Esteem)
Literally all the news out Comic-Con. This is every single thing that happened.
Literally all the news out Comic-Con. This is every single thing that happened.
Talking about Joe Chiappetta’s inventive Silly Daddy.
Comics, for all their faults, will never literally bite.
On the debut installment of Comic Book Decalogue, cartoonist Josh Simmons (Black River, The Furry Trap) answers ten questions about formative comics, bad decisions, his parents, and more.
An in-depth and at-length consideration of Matt Fraction, David Aja & company’s Hawkeye.
The Upcoming Past.
Continuing the mysteries of old things.
Box Brown chats about James Kochalka’s The Cute Manifesto and Jason Little’s BORB.
I’ve been trying to solve the mystery of comics… it’s kept me up all night… can’t a true gentleman stop and help?
Hope you’re wearing generous pants, ’cause there’s plenty to roll up in your pockets!
The question of offensiveness abounds.
To mark the release of Daniel Clowes’s The Complete Eightball #1-18, we look at the cartoonist’s career and comics from 1988 to 1998.
Start cutting up your old comics.
But if I don’t… who will?
Seattle cartoonist Tom Van Deusen and I recently sat down and had a focused discussion about Garden, the 300-page comic book by Tokyo painter and manga artist Yuichi Yokoyama that was published in 2011 by PictureBox. The conversation helps reveal the way important new works get into a creator’s mind and influence them in subtle ways.… Read more »
Annie Mok and Kris Mukai discuss recent books by Michael DeForge and John Porcellino.
New, old, drawn, live – comics has it all, and we have all the comics.
That’s right, I said it
In which the author looks at old cartoons
A quick eccentrically skewed tour of the comic book’s crucial 1970-1990s from corporate creation to individual expression.
In which the author is embarrassed by one of the kids
In which the author lays down the law
Wow! Another big week of great comics! Let’s dive right in!
In which the author begins a temporary job teaching cartooning for the week