Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, discussed recently the implications for her profession of the social media reactions to the notorious “Ted Cruz monkey children” cartoon she drew last December.
Just a few morsels for us to chew.
Talking to the Turning Japanese creator about storytelling, promotion, traveling to Japan, and an atheist’s take on spirituality.
The no-liberation zone.
The cartoonist behind The Quitter and Beef with Tomato talks the dual impacts of Jack Kirby and Prince, as well as his new serial, The Red Hook.
Walt Kelly, George Ward, Pogo, and politics.
Dedicated to you. Our future pioneers…
The creator of Fleep, Bookhunter, and Demon talks webcomics, day jobs, the pleasures of solving puzzles, and competing with Craig Thompson.
Talking to the cartoonist and author about The New Yorker, society, and Peter Arno.
Taking stock of a wide, stylistically various range of comics, released over the past three years by the imprint run by Box Brown and Big Planet Comics.
This time, I shall preserve the margins of the front page with mechanical precision.
Milburn (Twelve Gems) discusses halting his Vice strip Envoy, a ‘lazy river’ theory of comics-making, the Closed Caption Comics group, and polarizing creators from R. Crumb to Frank Miller.
How They Unwittingly Conspired To Bring a New Mass Medium into Popular Culture.
As above, so below: Hellboy is all about love.
Two masters of the comics medium talk sex, comics, religion, and critics.
The Girl Stories and Goddess of War artist talks about the newly translated 5,000 km per second, recently published by Fantagraphics.
No one is writing about how four adult men came to create a successful comic book about four young girls.
Now, we wind the clock back to 1904 and take a look at what could be called the “lost” Sundays of Gus Mager – three short series that represent fascinating experiments in style and content.
Don’t ask me why there’s so many jokes this week. I went to three Memorial Day parties, so maybe I’m Fun.
Tim Hensley’s astonishing Sir Alfred #3, in which Alfred Hitchcock becomes what he already was: a comic-strip character.
Brecht Evens, Flemish author/artist of the gorgeously stylish The Wrong Place and The Making Of, is back with Panther.
Carlos Giménez has long been considered one of the great cartoonists of Spain, and he’s just released the first English translation of Paracuellos: Children of the Defeated in Franco’s Fascist Spain.
A financial reprieve.
Chester Brown’s Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a logical extension of the examination to which was subjecting himself in Paying for It, and which arguably goes back as far as 1992’s The Playboy.
