Excerpt: Showtime
An extended look at Antoine Cossé’s Showtime, courtesy of Breakdown Press.
Features
“People Are Very Deep”: An Interview with Zachary Braun
The creator of the science fiction webcomic Nature of Nature’s Art talks psychology, manga, animation, painting software, and effective communication.
Excerpt: I Am Not Okay With This
The latest in Chuck Forsman comics, brought to you by Fantagraphics!
“It’s Hard To Sleep”: An Interview with CAB’s Gabe Fowler
A conversation with the founder of Comic Arts Brooklyn before the festival this weekend.
Reading How to Read Nancy
Talking mysteries, grails, and hoses with Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden, authors of the best book ever written about comics.
“After I Failed to Die”: An Interview with Katherine Collins (Part Two)
In this installment, the Neil the Horse creator explains the treatment she received from the comics community after her transition, her struggles with illness, and her post-comics career.
“Whatever Came to Mind”: An Interview with Katherine Collins (Part One)
In the first installment of a two-part interview, the Neil the Horse creator talks about Neil, the mistaken notion that she’s nostalgic, her early career in radio, and being part of a matrilineal line of Canadian cartoonists.
“Comics to Me Are a Musical Medium”: An Interview with Ulli Lust
In 2013 I had the pleasure of interviewing Ulli Lust on the train back to New York City after that year’s Small Press Expo. She had just won the Ignatz Award for Best Graphic Novel for Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, and I had debuted my own first book… Read more »
“It’s Not Some Form of Primal Scream Therapy”: An Interview with Tom Gauld
The Baking with Kafka cartoonist talks about the challenges and rewards of doing a weekly cartoon strip, why he doesn’t solicit feedback, and the person he’d most like to cast as James Bond.
The Tumult of Liberty
Three French-language comics demonstrate the challenges raised for creators by the remarkable aesthetic and thematic developments of the last twenty years.
“To Me, It All Makes Sense!”: A Ron Rege Jr. Interview
The artist discusses his recent mystical books, What Parsifal Saw and The Cartoon Utopia, as well as his early career and future projects.
Leslie Stein Talks to Her Mother
The cartoonist behind Eye of the Majestic Creature and Present is interviewed by the woman who raised her.
Everything Sells Everything
A Not-So-Secret History of Superman, Wonder Woman, and the American Superhero.
Episode 24: Annie Mok
Annie Mok discusses Carta Monir, Emily Carroll, Satyajit Ray, and more.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a captivating film, but also claims to be “the true story of the women behind the man behind the Woman,” and this is where matters get complicated.
An Interview with Kevin Pyle
The cartoonist, whose latest book is Migrant, talks to Alex Dueben about comics as a vehicle for social consciousness.
Shine a Light
Reporting harassment at a comics show.
Sweet Revenge: An Interview with Thi Bui
Thi Bui talks about the political forces and cartooning influences that she tapped into while creating her “touching memoir The Best We Could Do.
How To Build A Comics Festival: CXC, Year Three
What makes Cartoon Crossroads Columbus work.
“Everything I Had to Say about My Life Is in That Book”: An Interview with Tillie Walden
The Spinning creator talks about memoir, her relationship with figure skating, the importance of representation, and Studio Ghibli.
An Interview with Iasmin Omar Ata
Talking to Iasmin Omar Ata’s sbout their debut graphic novel Mis(h)adra, adapted from their webcomic of the same name.
An Interview with Sophia Foster-Dimino
Discussing comics and power with the author of Sex Fantasy.
“We’ve Worked Side by Side for 25 Years”: Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim Interview
A conversation with the wife-and-husband team behind Poppies in Iraq, a memoir of Findakly’s childhood as an Orthodox Christian in Iraq.
