Dennis P. Eichhorn, 1945–2015
The pioneering Real Stuff writer led a truly eccentric life. While many autobiographical writers tend to focus on day-to-day trivialities, Eichhorn’s stories were loaded with sex, drugs, and a whole lot of violence.
Features
Dennis P. Eichhorn Tributes
Remembrances from Noah Van Sciver, Shary Flenniken, Art Chantry, Mary Fleener, Pat Moriarty, and other collaborators.
Episode 4: Ed Luce, 2DCloud
Talking to the creator of Wuvable Oaf, and the team behind publisher 2D Cloud.
Noah Van Sciver: Day One
Life as a fellow at the Center of Cartoon Studies.
A Chat About Mould Map 4
Talking Euro with editors Hugh Frost and Leon Sadler.
SPX 2015 Report: Horrocks and Cornellà
Guest columnist John Kelly writes about two international guests at this year’s SPX: New Zealand’s Dylan Horrocks and Spain’s Joan Cornellà
“Every comic is the last one”: Jonathan Chandler Interview
Hayley Campbell catches up with “Britain’s most isolated cartoonist”, Jon Chandler. Movies are discussed, the specific pen and ink recommendations of Sammy Harkham are touched upon, and complaints regarding nudity are registered.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/7/15 – Way Behind the Times)
Lateness can’t stop money.
Jack Kirby at Cal State Northridge
Assembling and mounting the first serious institutional retrospective exhibition in America examining the art of Jack Kirby is a task fraught with contradictions.
Ted Rall vs the Los Angeles Times
A look at the varying accounts surrounding the Los Angeles Times’ firing of Ted Rall, and whether the LAPD told the newspaper to do it.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/30/15 – It Takes All Kinds)
One hell of a lot of comics this week. Just stay indoors.
Recent Reading
My recent reading — making my way through the piles. We’ve got your Koch, Benjamin, Davidson, Marra, Chandler, Pratt, Toth, Lagon, etc.
Funny Angry: An Interview with Jane Mai
Jane Mai’s See You Next Tuesday is a raucous bunch of short comics and scraps. This third book in what appears to be a loose trilogy is lighter and funnier, but allows itself to go deeper and darker as a result.
Restoring a Lost Psychedelic Anime Classic: An Interview with the Team Reintroducing Belladonna of Sadness
This 1973 film from Osamu Tezuka’s production studio was a commercial failure and remained unseen by wider audiences for years after its initial release.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/23/15 – Ideal Results)
The classics continue, because I let them.
Pushing the Limits: Comics and Creators That Stretch the Form
Comics as a self-aware form.
Tear Everything to Pieces: A Conversation with Liz Suburbia
An interview with the author of the debut graphic novel from Fantagraphics, Sacred Heart, which blends the Bible, punk rock, the magical realism of the Hernandez brothers, and trashy teen girl revenge flicks into a subtle story that explores alienation, gender, consent, sexuality, and trauma.
Episode 3: Yumi Sakugawa
Yumi Sakugawa (I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You, Ikebana) talks meditation, Megahex, and linework as handwriting.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/16/15 – Tabling at SPX B-nowhere)
If you want to see me in Bethesda, you’ve gotta wander the halls! Oh: here’s some comics.
A Lost Daniel Clowes Interview
In this 20-year-old, never-before-published interview, Daniel Clowes discusses working with the Ramones and his stint as “Stosh Gillepsie.”
The Belgians Who Changed Comics
“The Golden Age of Belgian Comics” features a rare collection, on show in France for the first time ever. Their pages detail a comics revolution, the era when – led by Tintin – the ninth art forever changed leisure on the continent.
Dan Zettwoch and Rina Ayuyang on The Freddie Stories by Lynda Barry
Two great cartoonists, the creators of Birdseye Bristoe and Whirlwind Wonderland respectively, discuss Lynda Barry’s Freddie Stories.
“One More Lens Through Which to Process the World”: A Horror-Filled Conversation with Josh Simmons
The Black River and Jessica Farm artist talks about horror, degrading day jobs, and the circus.
