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Gene Ahern Covers The Conventions
You might have missed this. Gene Ahern, a popular newspaper cartoonist covered the tense, rancorous presidential nominations by sending Major Hoople, his Our Boarding House comic strip character, to the Republican and Democratic national conventions. It’s understandable if you didn’t happen to catch Ahern’s coverage in the funny pages. After all, it happened in 1928.… Read more »
An Interview with Maré Odomo
A conversation with Maré Odomo, a young Seattle-based cartoonist who’s just released their largest work to date, Late Bloomer.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/10/16 – Maximum Relevance)
Real shit in the real world.
A Conversation with Zack Davisson
On Kitaro and Shigeru Mizuki’s legacy.
Comics Criticism: Seven Hot Takes for Summer 2016
She tweeted that “comics criticism is trash and must be destroyed.” Does “comics” agree? In this episode, Grid veers away from comics boosterism (and moves perilously close to parody) as we search for answers. That, and Frank Cho’s unmentionables.
Richard Thompson, 1957-2016
Thompson, illustrator and creator of the syndicated comic strip Cul de Sac, passed away on July 27, 2016 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 58 years old.
Dancing on the Manhole Cover: The Genius of Richard Thompson
Mourning the loss of Richard Thompson.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/3/16 – Blooming Sun)
Some things are inevitable.
A Conversation with Jack Davis
In this 2000 interview from The Comics Journal #225, Jim Woodring talks to Jack Davis about his college life, moving to New York, MAD and EC’s influence, and the famed editors and publishers he worked with.
Tributes to Richard Thompson
Memories from Warren Bernard, Craig Fischer, Charles Hatfield, and others.
Jack Burton Davis Jr., 1924-2016
“I always wanted to be a cartoonist.”
Tributes to Jack Davis
The great Jack Davis in words and images by Drew Friedman, Gary Panter, Peter Bagge, Joe Kubert, Ruben Bolling, Michael Bartalos, and Jim Woodring.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/27/16 – Keep ’em peeled.)
The rampant commerce column where you can believe your eyes once more.
The Michael Zulli Interview
The artist of Puma Blues discusses his work in comics.
“I Never Thought of Myself as a Cartoonist”: A Glen Baxter Interview
Baxter has been creating strange, perplexing, delightful pieces that blur (and possibly erase) the lines between art and comics since the 1970s.
Meeting Mr. Munch
Steffen Kverneland on graphic biography and The Scream
Episode 12: Anna Bongiovanni
Discussing Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls!, Bread and Wine, Kiki Smith, and so much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/20/16 – Return to Dream Land)
Hope to see you in San Diego! I mean, sometime in the future. I’m not going this week, fuck that.
The Webtoon: A New Form for Graphic Narrative
A look at the differences between print comics and Korean webcomics, or webtoons, and the effects and implications that those differences generate in terms of the aesthetics of webcomics as a new medium.
Geneviève Castrée: 1981-2016
The Canadian cartoonist, musician, and multimedia artist died Saturday, July 9, at the age of thirty-five.
Remembering Geneviève Castrée
Tributes to Geneviève Castrée by Anders Nilsen and Diane Obomsawin.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/13/16 – Invisible Monsters)
The whole world is watching.
