Information: it’s what you want, and it’s been guaranteed. But what kind, you ask? What kind of information do we have at hand? Information about comics, the kind you ingest with your eyes, after using your fingers to click. Step up and begin: the attainment of knowledge awaits!
We’re living through a Golden Age of Spain Rodriguez, so it’s time for Paul to catch us up on the recent reprints and biographical work (including a documentary) on the motorcycle riding Marxist radical who never stopped creating.
Alex catches up with political cartoonist Matt Lubchansky, whose Antifa Super Soldier Cookbook arrives in April. In this conversation, Lubchansky talks about making satire work, their disinterest in straight lines and Paul Verhoeven’s impeccable precognition.
By way of helping to celebrate Black History Month, we take a look at a couple of 30th year anniversaries. Robb Armstrong, it sez here in this promotional blurb, is the first Black cartoonist to have a comic strip with Black characters to run for 30 consecutive years. To honor the 30th anniversary of his… Read more »
The news is coming in hot, and these days, they might try to steal it from you AFTER it’s been served: so get to clicking before it’s too late. Clark has it broken down into categories like reviews, news, interviews–and when it comes to prioritization, pal, you better just take all of it. Safety in numbers!
Benjamin Marra talks with filmmaker, musician and cartoonist S. Craig Zahler about how role playing games, his love of legit comics and making movies brought him to the next project: writing and drawing his first graphic novel, The Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus.
Patrick Rosenkranz memorializes the influential ZAP cartoonist, who passed away on February 7th, 2021.
Kate Lacour spoke to four cartoonists (Phoebe Gloeckner, Julia Gfrörer, Dame Darcy & Nina Bunjevac) about how their dollmaking practice engages (and expands) their art making. Then, to confirm what she has found, Kate checks in with a doll to see what they think!
The news–news born and devoted to the subject of comics–returns to you in its purest form: via the linkage of Clark’s nimble fingers. Imagine yourself fired across the cylinders of time, reading the reviews, news and interviews that make up this thing we study. Learning begins now!
Richard Short’s Klaus comics just saw their biggest collection yet, by way of Breakdown, and Joe Decie caught up with the creator about what it’s like, keeping up with the world’s most thoughtful cat.
Andrew White catches up with Madeleine Jubilee Saito about how she came to webcomics, creating in the Midwest, how Christianity informs and illuminates her work, and what her commitment to “30 Days of Comics” has taught her.
2021 is off to a roaring start, and who knows what news stories will attempt to stand between you and your comics awareness? Arm yourself with the links you need to stay informed about the sequential narrative you remain obsessed with: and then arm yourself again, with petulance!
RJ Casey’s last day at Fantagraphics is Friday, Ed ended his tenure at Koyama in December. I thought it would be a good time to catch them on the way out the door.
Ian Thomas talks with MK Czerwiec (the ComicNurse) about the growing passion the medical field has for comics, and how the popular website Graphic Medicine has expanded its focus over the last few years to encompass that growth–as well as how the project began!
Bob’s here with a brief history of the Dutch Treat Club, their notebook of nudes, and their old President, James Montgomery Flagg.
Steven Brower takes a look back at the wild and wooly (and probably libelous) life and times of D. Bruce Berry, which started in fandom and ended in The Fourth World.
Will Clark be able to find his way through the Bernie-memes and uncover this week’s comics news, reviews and interviews? Hell, should he? You’ll be on pins and needles all morning as soon as you…get to clicking!
It’s that time again: that Melinda Gebbie, Steve Ditko, New Yorker, Josh Bayer, Claire Bretécher and Isa Genzken time. Also, the Immortal Hulk. Austin was hungry!
Rory Blank talks with Ian Thomas about relying on a habit of daily production, surviving a job in content moderation intact, and what time he gets up now that the choice is up to him.
This time around, Goshkin is taking into a look at a recent Institute 193 publication called Cosmic Giggles, featuring work by Charles Williams.
Beginnings. Endings. Awards. Lists. Talking. Comics. Words. Periods After Words. Underlined words and phrases. The comics news has arrived! Clark is ready to send you out, shooting through the tubes, so that you may rest yourself upon it!
A new exhibition of Milton Caniff’s work is underway at the Palazzo Arti Fumetto Friuli (PAFF!) in Pordenone, Italy–but this is one you won’t need to travel to see!
We look back a century to see how a brilliant writer managed her existence–creative and mortal–and what that might tell us for the cartoonists of today.
Cartoonist and podcaster JB Roe catches us up on how Deathlok and the TMNT got him started with comics, how risographs and the small press have kept him going, and why he’s not concerned about blowback for expressing his opinions on Gutter Boys.
