THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/27/16 – Absentee Voter)
Driving opposite the sirens past the Donald Trump rally; don’t forget me, Hank.
Features
“The Starting Point”: An Interview with Julie Doucet
Cars, collage, and reading loud with the Montreal-based artist.
Thee Simon Hanselmann Experience
How will an independence pump over comics? Simon Hanselmann oils comics. The difficult excess swims comics across dull seas. Simon Hanselmann squashes the pressure.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/20/16 – Video Game Blogging Will Lock In Reader Interest)
Given the date, my editors can pretend I’m on extremely average drugs.
The Gould Rush: The Mad Allure of Dick Tracy
It’s time someone came out and said it—Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy is bonkers. Stark raving crazy. But it’s an American crazy—we feel at home in it.
Connecticut Cartoonists #4: Superheroes, Politics, and Soap
Gil Kane, Warren King, Leonard Starr
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/13/16 – A Process of Deduction)
Weekly services for adherents of commerce.
“To Learn How to Tell That Joke”: An Interview with Eleanor Davis
Checking in with the prolific cartoonist, whose current work includes the publications BDSM, Flop to the Top!, and Libby’s Dad.
“Somebody Has to Pay for the Sins of Our Great-Great-Grandfathers”: A Richard Sala Interview
The veteran artist behind macabre masterworks such as The Chuckling Whatsit and The Hidden discusses his recent work, the appeal and dangers of creating disturbing art, lessons learned from Dick Tracy, and the politics of horror.
Hanco Kolk – “A Fine Line”
Looking at a latter day ligne claire cartoonist, Dutch artist Hanco Kolk.
An Oral History of Wimmen’s Comix Part 2
The contributors and editors of Wimmen’s Comix discuss the history of the anthology and of women in the underground. Part 2 of 2.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/6/16 – Satan’s Sergeants)
Rolling out with a late manga stalwart, while pop comics take the spotlight.
Episode 8: Gabrielle Bell
Bell discusses Ulli Lust, This Dog Barking, and getting good advice from some surprising sources. All this and a cameo from Aidan Koch!
Ginette Lapalme: Day Five
Parting thoughts.
An Oral History of Wimmen’s Comix Part 1
If Zap Comix #1 kicked off the underground comix movement, then over the two decades of its run, Wimmen’s Comix played a key role in shaping the generations of cartoonists that followed. This was a publication that was explicitly political, interested in memoir, promoted women’s voices, and was inclusive in every sense of the world.… Read more »
Ginette Lapalme: Day Four
Sumo/picnic.
Jess Johnson, 1970-2016
An obituary for the prolific alternative cartoonist.
From Watchmen to Orfani: A Colorists’ Roundtable
Some of the most important colorists from around the world gather to talk about the pros and cons of their job, the best and worst ways to color, the effects of new digital tools, and oh yes, how much they get paid.
Ginette Lapalme: Day Three
Trouble.
Ginette Lapalme: Day Two
The cat lounge.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/30/16 – Filth, Symbiosis, Reality, Communion)
A few images from the late Jess Johnson, among other things.
“Unholy Momentum”: Daniel Clowes’s Patience
Digging into Clowes’s masterpiece with commentary and annotations on everything from the comic’s obscure allusions to its cosmic themes.
Ginette Lapalme: Day One
A trip to Tokyo.
An Interview with Dan White
An interview with Dan White, creator of the Cindy and Biscuit series and prolific comics commentator.
