Gearing up for the Adhouse release of his Cover Not Final, cartoonist Max Huffman catches up with Andrew Neal about growing up and past your influences, figuring out how to manage jokes in a pandemic scarred artform, and how to use Chick tracts AND Michael Mann as inspiration devices.
It’s learning time: the time when you rely on the authority of the text against screen to teach you the news, reviews and points of view surrounding the subject of “comics”. But wouldn’t it be easier if all those things were rounded up in one place? Friend, that time is now.
Cynthia reports back on Déflagrations (Detonations), at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille: 160 drawings by children from around the world, created between 1914 and 2020, expressing their experience of trauma, war and horror.
Thanks to Breakdown Press, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Free Fall, by Alexis Beauclair.
A profile of Ben Sears, author of the new kid superhero graphic novel Young Shadow – an all-ages comic with a healthy distrust of authority.
Catching up with a veteran of indie and mainstream comics alike – and hashing out the current state of both, as the pandemic lingers and business models shudder.
It’s time to curl up with the spiciest collection of links this side of a pepper factory explosion where you have to say goodbye to your entire family: it’s comics linking time, with Clark as captain, and the last week of the internet’s comics news, reviews and interviews as your ocean. Get yourself to the oars, which are the links you must click!
“To foster acceptance of any aspect of the human condition, to nurture enjoyment of it, and to vanquish meaningless guilt seem to me to be acts of high morality: such acts elevate the human spirit. If this be pornography, we need more of it.”
Helen takes a fresh look at Steve Ditko’s creativity under the content restrictions of the 1950s: a force that burned brighter than the comics code, by embodying the code’s ideology with a perfection the censors couldn’t match.
The Ignatz-winning cartoonist and Six Chix contributor sets the record straight in a wide-ranging discussion of vision, editors, comedy, and telling the story.
Don’t walk into the weekend without knowledge cresting your brainpan: what if someone demands you provide it? Clark’s rounded up all the news, reviews and comics related blues that you could ever require in one handy dandy omnibus–all that’s required is that you settle in and allow it to imprint itself across your mental chassis. Get to clicking, childhood Savior!
Closing things out with a book report, the return home, some difficult news: François’s vacation (and his Cartoonist’s Diary) come to a close.
NFTs have made their way into comics. Did they bring the sewage with them, or was the sewage already there? Artyom is on the frontlines, and he’s here to explain!
There can be no more direct and simple description of the adventures our intrepid explorers take this very day then these two words: limestone cowboy!
Check out an excerpt from the latest Iron Circus Comics comics anthology You Died, featuring new work by Casey Gilley and Raina Telgemeier!
Today, François pulls back the curtain to show off the trusty steed that serves as chariot for the road trip these diaries depict: and speaking of depictions, today’s whale is still alive!
James Romberger takes a look at 2021’s hit biography of Stan Lee from journalist Abraham Reisman and ask: how honest are we willing to get, this time around?
Will François’s visit to a Canadian lighthouse turn out like the lighthouse experience depicted in the movie with Willem Dafoe? Only a keen reader of today’s Cartoonist’s Diary will know the answer, unless somebody spoils it for them first. Don’t do that!
Zara Slattery talks about how she took her experience in a coma (and her husband’s diary he wrote while she lay in it) and turned it into a comic, the mythology that informed its narrative, and the thick-skinned life she’s lived since the experience.
Today, one week will become two, as we’ll be joining François Vigneault for his travels along Canada’s Côte-Nord. In this installment, kayaks, subwoofers and Dan Brown make an appearance!
Is comics just one long series of distribution related soap operas that will never die? No, you bozo! It’s an artform with a whole breadth of soap operas that will never die! Why, each week there’s a whole list of news, reviews and interviews to captivate and delight you–why, here’s a bunch now, collected in link form!
A stack of books–new editions of John Porcellino’s King-Cat collections from Drawn & Quarterly–sends our writer into a voyage of discovery regarding the influential cartoonist, whom he now reads for the first time.
We look back at the life and career of the beloved cartoonist, musician & animator Gary Leib, who passed away late last week.
When he couldn’t find a publisher for the radical cartoons of the early 20th Century, Michael Mark Cohen took to the internet. The result, Cartooning Capitalism, remains a one-stop history and engagement lesson in the power of cartooning, and the power that cartooning depicts.
