New Talent Showcase 5
Real Life
Real Life
Bike maintenance.
In which Tucker compares reading certain superhero comics to allergy medicine-enhanced self-abuse.
A slow work day.
A unusually busy day in the city.
In his final episode, Mike Dawson interviews The Pain cartoonist and essayist Tim Kreider
Cultural confusion.
Winter is coming, my friends, as are spoilers for recent zombie-like funnies.
A rainy day in Japan.
Smash the State
When did superhero comics start obsessing about histrionic emotional reactions to the vagaries of interpersonal relationships?
The best in delicate French cartooning of the 1960s (not pictured) is waiting for you inside! Provided you have money! But not much!!
Bushmiller refined his art, honed it to its barest essentials, and thereby produced a comic strip that in many respects was the very apotheosis of a comic strip.
Color Theory and Practice.
The final day.
Tucker snaps after one too many Holocaust comparisons in X-Men comics.
In 1987, the proposal to bring all of Crumb back into print in a uniform set of books was a radical publishing act which re-contextualized and re-vitalized an already momentous body of work.
Struggling to write a book review.
Horrocks teaches a class, and learns something.
A week in the life of Dylan Horrocks continues.
Alright, no, I’m just trying to drum up some extra hits for all the new comics I’m covering inside. Is that so bad? Yes.
A week in the life of Dylan Horrocks.
DeForge, McManus, and Forsman. Call for a free consultation.
Archie, Cerebus, and Young Blueberry take their places (and their marks) alongside the Avengers and the Flash.