Fiona Smyth: Day Five
The week ends the way it started, with art, love and RuPaul. It’s a Fiona Friday Fantasia!
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Excerpt: Mean Girls Club Pink Dawn
The Mean Girls are out for blood in this timely revenge fantasy that speaks to our deepest desires for awful, corrupt men to get what’s coming to ‘em! Filled with mayhem, misandry, and more danger than you can shake a stiletto at, get ready for a chaotic, bloody ride.
Fiona Smyth: Day Four
Fiona gets a font, and within it (and the joy of Rupaul) finds the fortitude to scrap with some illness. It’s Thursday, people.
Fiona Smyth: Day Three
Teaching comics, talking bad investment strategies with Frank, and teaching tracing paper tips: it’s Fiona, Day Three!
Profound, Frightening, Childlike, and Ancient: A Conversation with Justin Duerr
The editor of The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Works & Worlds of Herbert Crowley talks about one of the most mysterious, obsession-inspiring artists in comics history.
Fiona Smyth: Day Two
Sometimes, the good news just won’t stop coming. One way to counteract that? Watching a bad movie…on purpose!
“Total Freedom Is Awful”: An Interview with Hope Larson
With a new book landing in stores and a book tour about to begin, Hope Larson talks to Martyn Pedler about the choices she’s made to have an artistic career, and the work that has been produced as a result.
Fiona Smyth: Day One
After you see art at one place, you’re gonna end up seeing art at another, and then another–that’s just how things go in the world of Fiona Smyth.
Excerpt: XTC69
Explorers from an all-women planet have found men to breed with, but have they found studs or duds? Find out in this except from Jessica Campbell’s upcoming graphic novel with Koyama Press!
The Vast Gate
Leonard Pierce was probably never a fan of capitalism to begin with, but when he saw what it did to Spider-Man, that’s when the gloves really came off!
Take The Fox, At Least: An Interview with Nivedita Sekar
Sloane Leong speaks with Nivedita Sekar about the inspiration behind her upcoming comic, Your Mother’s Fox.
Big Planet Comics
Jared Smith from Big Planet Comics talks about what its taken to survive and thrive within his ever-expanding empire. But don’t ask him if he reads comics on the clock: it’s a sore subject.
The Cartoonist and the Champ
The story of Eugene Majied, the little-known cartoonist who inspired Muhammad Ali and changed history.
“I’m Sick of Graphic Novels”: An Interview with Craig Thompson
On the eve of its re-release, cartoonist Craig Thompson looks back on Carnet de Voyage and all that he learned while creating the influential travelogue.
Angst essen Comics auf: The Twisted Beauty of Olivia Vieweg’s Coming-of-Age Tales
An expansive look into the career of Olivia Viewig’s, the German cartoonist, illustrator and screenwriter who has spent the last decade succeeding in fields her home country still struggle to understand.
Telling on Your Secrets: Comics from Kevin Budnik, 2014-2017
In Budnik’s comics, he reveals his deepest fears and the ongoing, active experience of living with mental illness.
Excerpt: Losing the Girl
A preview of Losing the Girl, the first book in the young-adult Life on Earth trilogy, in which MariNaomi looks at life through the eyes of four suburban teenagers.
Alejandra Gutiérrez: Day Five
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Alejandra to reflect on one giant week, and all the history it’s brought to the surface.
Alejandra Gutiérrez: Day Four
Well, you knew it was coming. Today, Alejandra finally makes it to the film shoot to see how the magic gets made.
Floating World Comics
Jason Leivian from Floating World talks about the past, present and future from the vantage point of one of North America’s most beloved comic book stores.
Alejandra Gutiérrez: Day Three
There’s no magic bullet to fixing a bad day, but checking in with friends, filling up on some good food and…cold showers? Hey, everyone has their thing!
On Hating Cathy
Cathy ran for 34 years, and its conclusion seemed to please people a little too much. Juliet Kahn thinks that it’s high time for a reappraisal of the most famous strip everybody claims to hate.
Alejandra Gutiérrez: Day Two
Being exhausted after a long trip can make anybody say crazy things, but being bored by Predator? That’s a bridge too far!
Alejandra Gutiérrez: Day One
Getting ready for a trip out of town, snuggling in bed and getting yahself all kinds of sexy. There’s no better way to start off a week.
