Episode 23: Gina Wynbrandt
The creator of Someone Please Have Sex with Me talks Phoebe Gloeckner, Truth Zone, Chewing Gum, and more.
Features
“A Tricky Cad”: The Gravies, Sawdust and Chester Gould
The meta-strips within 1950s and ’60s Dick Tracy.
Eye Buds: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics, Part 2
Is Yokoyama plugged into portability as well? Clearly he is into mobile eyes and mobile ears. How about mobile devices and mobile books, and the techniques of miniaturization, content formatting, and sensorial coordination that they require? What follows is a meandering stab at an answer.
The Len Wein Interview
In this 1979 interview, Len Wein talks about working for Marvel and DC, what it means for storytelling when fans instead of professional writers take over; balancing commercial considerations with creative ones; the origins of Swamp Thing; the thought process behind superhero team-ups like X-Men and The Defenders’ how he writes Batman, the Hulk, Spider-Man, Superman, and much more.
Art Young, To Laugh That We May Not Weep: A Conversation with Glenn Bray and Frank M. Young
Researching and compiling one of the very best under-recognized cartoonists.
Len Wein: 1948-2017
The life of the prolific and influential comics writer and editor, who co-created Wolverine and Swamp Thing.
Richard Kyle in Retrospect
Reflections on a comics critic, publisher and retailer, along with an unpublished interview.
This Week’s Comics (9/6/17)
Strictly a consumer guide.
Through the Mirror
Late in life, Jack Kirby returned to his youth. After a long, distinguished career he drew his first unequivocally autobiographical story, “Street Code”, in 1983.
Yoe Books: A Disservice to Comics History
We are at peak reprint. Because of this, the only worthwhile publishing projects reissuing old comic strips or books need to be either uncovering hidden gems and critical missing links to bygone eras, or repackaging material in a way that makes it more historically relevant or capital-I “Important.” Craig Yoe does neither. The hardcovers discharged… Read more »
The True History of Eustace Tilley
…And of Other Fictional and Nonfictional “Characters” at The New Yorker
Non ho sonno.
This is the final installment of THIS WEEK IN COMICS!
Eye Drum: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics
Looking at how Yokoyama plays with the fact that visual experience in comics is often deeply tied to the ear and, through the ear, the human voice.
An Interview with the Father of Mexico’s Graphic Documentary: Who’s This Rius?
The influential Mexican cartoonist Rius (Eduardo del Rio) passed away on August 8, 2017. In this 1990 interview, he talks about the end of the Cold War, ideology, and the then-contemporary international comics scene.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (’93-’98 – $1.25)
Dead, irrelevant and forgotten… but enough about me.
Episode 22: Katie Skelly
The My Pretty Vampire creator speaks on Kyoko Okazak, Dave Cooper, and Nabokov.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/16/17 – Don’t You Worry)
Feels bad, man.
The Future of Secret Acres
I should know what a Secret Acres book is by now.
“It’s dawning on me that it could be potentially dangerous for my career.” An Interview With Rich Tommaso
Hopefully people who are too busy to even bother going on social media are completely unaware of my meltdown!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/9/17 – Blessed Daily Life)
Don’t lose your head: it’s just international comics.
An Interview with José Muñoz
Politics, crime, and jazz with the master cartoonist.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/2/17 – Appetite)
Dining out with Geof Darrow’s hungry ghosts.
“It’s a Tricky Space to Be In”: An Interview with Jonny Sun
The artist slash engineer slash doctoral student slash Twitter personality slash author talks about putting together his first book, aliens as listeners, art as therapy, and deciding to stop being anonymous.
