Katie Skelly: Day Three
Today in all things Skelly, fashion takes the stage!
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Katie Skelly: Day Two
In today’s installment, Katie has what the scientists like to call “a good day”. Spiritual, emotional, physical and professional goals are all met!
French and Frisky: The Man Behind Astérix
When the scenarist René Goscinny (1926 – 1977) died at 51, much of the world felt they knew him. With Astérix, he had created a hero who outsold Tintin. Goscinny also helped to found and run Pilote, a magazine that won French cartooning back an audience – adults – that it had lost after the 19th century.
Katie Skelly: Day One
There’s no better way to start off a week than to get an email from a celebrity. No better way!
“Hopefully You Reach a Few People Here and There”: A David Collier Interview
David Collier’s work is much too personal, much too idiosyncratic to pass as straightforward nonfiction. His latest, Morton: A Cross-Country Rail Journey, is no exception, and possibly his best book to date. Here he discusses the book, being edited, the military, trains, and many other topics.
Excerpt: Bloodstrike Brutalists
An exclusive preview of Michel Fiffe’s upcoming series for Image Comics, Bloodstrike: Brutalists.
Where I’m Coming From (Part 2)
Zines disappear arbitrarily and without warning. For the final installment in this series, I’ve tried to write about a great many, in the hopes that works that have moved me might open up forgotten corners of what is possible in cartooning.
A Trumped Up Tour
R. Sikoryak hit the road to promote his book. Is the road going to hit back?
Fear of a Black Panther
In 2010, 36 years after its release, the story “Panther’s Rage” was collected and reprinted for the first time. David Brothers and Tucker Stone took it all in.
“A Total Space:” The Antoine Cossé Interview
Cartoonist Antoine Cossé discusses his recent releases, drawing driving, communication and how to make a “shared universe” interesting.
Excerpt: Good News Bible
An excerpt of the politically charged, hallucinatory, Jack Kirby-infused punk cartoons that Shaky Kane brought to Deadline magazine decades ago.
“I Never Felt Like I Had A Style”: An Interview with Charles Forsman
There’s a part of me that wants to constantly relive that because when you’re a teenager your emotions are so raw. You think you have everything figured out, but you’re also so lost and frustrated. I just find it fascinating, and I’m trying to organize that time of my life on paper.
“That’s Just What My Life Looks Like”: A Tommi Parrish Interview
Upon the release of The Lie and How We Told It, Tommi Parrish talks about bookmaking, working at Outback Steakhouse, and the Australian comics scene.
“I’m Very Low-Key About It”: Katie Skelly And Alex de Campi
But this is what has pushed me into the arms of prose fiction: I am so tired of producing graphic novels. I’ll never leave comics. It’ll be more like a shared custody thing… but since I made the choice to split my time it’s made me a lot happier.
Excerpt: Ethics In The Gutter
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer.
“Immediate Metacognitive Dispersal”: An Interview with Kate Polak
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning.
Comics Dragnet 2
Time to gather up another round of webcomics…
Excerpt: Is This Guy For Real?
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown.
The Mort Walker Interview
In this in-depth interview, Mort Walker talks about growing up during the Great Depression, serving in the military, developing risque versions of his characters for overseas publishers, founding a comics art museum housed in a concrete castle, raising 10 kids, and much more.
Jerk City, USA
Mike Grell wrote a lot of issues of Green Arrow. But were any of them any good? Let Tegan take the wheel.
Smokestack Foo-mania: The Life and Notary Sojac of Bill Holman
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
“I Watch For Patterns”: An Interview with Aleš Kot
I guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations?
Where I’m Coming From (Part 1)
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics.
Mort Walker Passes Away at 94
The artist, whose tour of duty on Beetle Bailey was the longest run of any cartoonist in the history of the comics pages, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia
