The Friendly Beasts
Winged creatures of all sorts—owls, bees, dragons—take flight in the comics of Ben Duncan, Lala Albert, and Ward Zwart.
Columns
Art as Transformation: WORDLESS!
If you’ve followed Art Spiegelman at all in the last 20 years, you’ve seen his lectures, filled with insight, wit, and lots of visuals projected onto screens. This has all been pretty swell — but predictable — stuff. But when have we ever seen Spiegelman take the stage to talk about comics with a giant movie screen and a six-piece jazz combo?
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/17/14 – Quality in Games Journalism)
Yeah! Screw comics! Goddamn nerds – in 2015, it’s all gaming, all the time!
Can You Get to That?
War zone of the Mind.
When a Dog Was Art: Clifford McBride and the Immortal Napoleon
Back in those dear, dead days of yesteryear, cartoonists drew comic strips; they didn’t rule them with a straight-edge. And one of the best examples of the truth of this freshly brewed axiom is Clifford McBride’s dog strip, Napoleon.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/10/14 – Somebody Had to Say It)
Wow, comics time again. Just a few this week, but good ones! Big ones!
Webcomics Fix Your Life
There is a small but increasing number of webcomics dedicated to self-improvement. Because who knows how to live better than a webcartoonist?
Simon Hanselmann: Day 5
Black Friday.
Simon Hanselmann: Day 4
Turkey time.
Genghis Con 2014
Come on down to Cleveland town
Simon Hanselmann: Day 3
Routines and beverages.
Simon Hanselmann: Day 2
Process and assignments.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/3/14 – Raised from the Rhine)
A golden treasure of upcoming comics! I stole them – YOU buy them.
Wonder Woman’s Secrets in Context
Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a major event in comics scholarship. But no scholarly work stands alone; all are always part of a wider conversation.
Simon Hanselmann: Day 1
Life changes.
“But You Bugger One Kaiser . . .”
The latest from Joe Sacco and Ted Rall.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/26/14 – Who, above all, is to blame?)
The roar of a lion across the freezing earth; capsules.
What Sold at CAB
Trends in My Comic-Book Back-Issue Sales
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/19/14 – A Few Words on the Predilections of Record Collectors)
Jazz! What is it? Can I read it? Can I make love to it?? Blutch will show you the way, signore.
The Art of Divination
In Aidan Koch’s “Configurations” the psychological interval between each panel is central, impossible for the reader to ignore, and in a sense that’s what this comic is actually about.
CAB 2014 Notes
A brief con report
“The Sponsor”: A Fourteen-Step Problem Comic
All about interpretation and responses to James Sturm’s comic strip “The Sponsor” . . .
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/12/14 – An Experiment in Funnybook Investigation)
It’s so nice not having to cover a comics show. God, I can just show up and be myself.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/5/14 – Days of Manga Past)
Revisiting a special moment in international cooperation, before spending the first Xmas money of the season.
