Austin English and Bill Kartalopoulos on Superboy, Patience, and Peplum
The cartoonist/publisher and the editor/scholar discuss a 1963 issue of Superboy and a recent Blutch reprint—and how they relate to the latest Clowes.
Features
An Interview with Kaz
Two cartooning greats catch up on the occasion of Kaz’s Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/23/16 – Mimesis is the Corridor, and Poetry the Light)
Romance! Photos! Compassion!
Consider the Source of the Crisis in the Newspaper Comics Strip Kingdom
A Perverse and Cynical Contrary View Full of Hope.
Jen Lee: Day Five
Don’t want to reverse it.
“Comics Was the Reliable Thing”: An Interview with Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge’s new graphic novel, Big Kids, follows the teenaged Adam through a conflict with his cop uncle, a mysterious college-aged stranger named April moving in with him and his family, and a jarring breakup with his jerky boyfriend, which then sparks a traumatic, permanent shift in his PoV.
Jen Lee: Day Four
I want to stop missing things.
Jen Lee: Day Three
Mapping out my head.
Daniel Clowes and Patience: An Interview
A conversation about process, structure, and aesthetics.
Jen Lee: Day Two
Still thinking about the sky.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/16/16 – L’Amour braque)
Men thinking about women, in different times and places…
Connecticut Cartoonists #3: Quality Folks
Jack and Gill.
Jen Lee: Day One
Bothered by how the sun hits the rooms in a new house.
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
An excerpt focusing on Vanessa Davis’s work, taken from Tahneer Oksman’s important new contribution to the study of comics and identity.
Alex Robinson on Our Expanding Universe and His Serious Efforts to Keep Cartooning Fun
The Box Office Poison creator talks about his new book, his podcasting empire, what killed Career Killer, and how his work methods haven’t changed substantially since the 1990s.
The Anxiously Subversive Comics of Adam Buttrick
Buttrick was born and raised in the Midwest, but you wouldn’t know it from his comics. They feel universal, otherworldly, or more precisely, untraceable.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/9/16 – Lightning Returns)
Gotta go fast…
Confessions of a Manga Translator
A first-hand account of what a manga translator does, and doesn’t do, and how.
Connecticut Cartoonists #2: This Is A Job For Supermen
The fate of the Man of Steel’s artisans.
Today’s Feminist Comics: Why I Don’t Relate
It’s okay to be critical of the things you care about, and that’s the permission I’m giving myself to be critical of what are categorically called “feminist comics” these days.
“Going to 100”: An Interview with K.L. Ricks
A talk with the New England-based cartoonist, whose eerie, atmospheric comic for Hazlitt, “Country Darkness,” concludes with its third part next month.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/2/16 – Magnification)
A frightful force of expensive reprint items… but there’s always other ways to spend your money.
The Last Underground Cartoonist?: A Q&A with Robert Triptow
Talking to the longtime cartoonist and Class Photo creator about his origins, and his current creative renaissance.
The Brian Chippendale Interview
Dan Nadel talks to artist and musician Brian Chippendale about the history of Fort Thunder, “Maggots,” and artistic challenges.
