THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/13/13 – New Touch City)
Everyone wants to know the future of comics. Here’s one of ’em.
Columns
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/6/13 – Sensual Planet Asylum)
France! Teach me to kiss, France!
My Back Pages
My ostensible reason for teaching serialization in the first place was that I felt an obligation to discuss the history of the floppy, but my students don’t care at all about that history.
Webcomics Capsule Reviews #2
It’s that time again: time for me to read a bunch of webcomics at random and tell you what I think of them.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/30/13 – The Face of Mainstream Comics)
A deep dive into digital manga pours out into an alternative newspaper reunion, and other things adrift.
He Was Said To Have Loved It When You Called Him Big Poppa
Image Comics: The Movie
Heather Benjamin!
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where one of the bad guys tries to press Indy’s face against a conveyor belt that would pretty much sand off his skin. Your first glimpse of a Heather Benjamin drawing feels something like that.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/23/13 – Paradigm Squared)
Pucker up for DIRTY COMICS in this week’s erotic voyage toward… categorization!
Arrrr, I Am A Comic Book Writer and This Bed Is A Pirate Ship
The John Byrne comic that nearly broke this column’s back.
Growing Old in Gasoline Alley: Ninety-four Years And Counting
A multi-generational strip recalled.
Jack Ziegler: The Pen and Paper of Middle America
Richard Gehr talks to Jack Ziegler, whose innovative cartoons, often on the topics of food, cowboys and classical literature, have populated The New Yorker for thirty years.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/16/13 – C’est la mer allée. Avec le soleil.)
PARENTS: Is *this* the kind of girl your son is dating? A shocking cautionary tale inside!
Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 5
The three weeks at ACA are over.
Let’s Set This Bed On Fire, With Passion and Love
The comics of 2013 are off to an … excellent start.
Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 4
Road trip to Gainesville.
Stop Making Sense!
That grubby minicomic you grabbed off the bar, or found plugging the vent in the convention hall bathroom, which made no sense to you at the time, and probably makes even less now, was likely signed Dongery.
Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 3
Work and play in Florida.
Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 2
The residents settle in…
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/9/13 – Cues Throughout History)
Several indelicate thrusts toward a taxonomy of experiential comics, starring the young and the dead.
Gabrielle Gamboa—Day 1
The first day of Gabrielle Gamboa’s diary, documenting her residency at the Atlantic Center of the Arts last fall.
The 19 Best Comics of 2012
2012: there weren’t a lot of great comics, but there were a few, and there were quite a lot of really good comics. Very, very few of them came out of left field, which is to be expected–the internet certainly blesses us with access to new talent, but it can’t create new talent, and the… Read more »
THIS (THESE) (PAST) WEEK(S) IN COMICS! (1/2/13 – All of you remain trapped here with me.)
That sure is a lot of comics piled up. Only the snowbound would have time to read ’em all. And only the snow plow could afford ’em. Provided he or she is charging by the flake.
