Chris Kuzma: Day Four
In today’s installment of Chris Kuzma’s Cartoonist Diary, we enter the mysterious world of absolute peak Kuzma.
Columns
Steve Ditko and the Comic-Book People
A big-picture/close-reading appreciation of Steve Ditko through the lens of his relationship with the world known as Comicdom. (It’s also a story about a cartoonist’s profound investment in words and his hostility toward editors who didn’t understand his unusual approach to language.)
Chris Kuzma: Day Three
The tighter one grips, the more likely chaos is to ensue. Allow Chris Kuzma to walk you through his experience of the stated truism, in today’s installment of his Cartoonist Diary!
Chris Kuzma: Day Two
Is the glass half-empty? Is it half-full? Today, Chris Kuzma is throwing that question out at you with a quality social time twist.
Dominique Goblet and the Architecture of Self
The Belgian artist is among the most empathetic of artists working in the comics form, with each project pushing further the boundaries of interpersonal hermeneutics.
Chris Kuzma: Day One
This week, we’ll be joined by Chris Kuzma. In today’s installment, he’s on the hunt for a technological marvel, and won’t be stopped by panel borders.
OVERWORD 5 · Mark Gruenwald
Michel Fiffe’s OVERWORD series draws to a close with a long look at Mark Gruenwald’s impact–professional and personal.
AJ Dungo: Day Five
Closing out the week the way it began–by getting out the door and taking a chance. Today, AJ paints.
AJ Dungo: Day Four
There’s more than one way to grieve, and there’s no way to do it wrong: but there’s definitely poetic methods, and often, that’s the way you should go.
AJ Dungo: Day Three
We had to cut the panel where AJ said “easier said than done, pal”–it just seemed to on the nose.
Eric Stanton: Master Fetish Artist
The story of the bondage artist who shared a studio with Steve Ditko and possibly helped create Spider-Man
AJ Dungo: Day One
Starting the week off on the right foot, with the right kinda attitude: is that the AJ Dungo way? We’ll find out as a new Diary begins!
Melanie Gillman: Day Ten
Reflecting on the ten day retreat, Melanie Gillman has a message for artists, and it’ll probably sound a little familiar.
Twenty Questions with Cartoonists
Nine artists answer the same twenty questions, about their methods, their philosophies, their materials, and their working spaces.
Melanie Gillman: Day Nine
It’s okay to question whether or not we have a future when you’re standing in the consequences of the past.
Melanie Gillman: Day Eight
The history that surrounds is one of extreme change, but it often requires a tour guide to decipher the signs. Melanie Gillman has a good one!
Generation X Comics & Games
A Dallas comic book store is giving away $25,000? You read that right. Find out all about it in our conversation with Wayne McNeil, from Generation X Comics & Games!
Melanie Gillman: Day Seven
It’s not all turkeys, coyotes and good dogs out there in the mesa–things can get positively reptilian, and often in the most unexpected places.
Melanie Gillman: Day Six
In the neverending battle between bird and coyote, one laughing avian has them all figured out.
Melanie Gillman: Day Five
You can get a patent on anything, it would seem: but that’s what you SHOULD do when you find something that works 100% of the time!
Melanie Gillman: Day Four
If you don’t feel it in the gut when you read “it’ll be worth it”, than pal, you might want to head back to the soul factory and ask for a replacement. The one you got is broken.
Melanie Gillman: Day Three
“You there, what day is this?”, Scrooge asked, leaning out his window. “It’s the day you get to meet an amazing dog”, said Melanie Gillman.
A Dialectic Approach to Comics Form
How many of the most fundamental formal aspects of comics constitute dialectical relationships.
Melanie Gillman: Day Two
Sometimes, you can open your window and tell your caterwauling neighbors to keep it down. Other times? Best to leave things alone and count to ten.
