Dash Shaw: Day Three
Learning about scripting and storyboarding.
Columns
Dash Shaw: Day Two
Cosplay and Eric Rohmer.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/28/16 – Get Ready to Despair)
Who the hell will buy all of these? By “these” I mean by deepest emotions.
Dash Shaw: Day One
Alternating between projects.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/21/16 – Star Maps)
Less pictures than usual in here.
Alex Raymond: Becoming a Cartoonist
An encyclopedic look at the master of fantasy and romance.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/14/16 – Alchemical Salon)
Books! Words! Pictures! All formats! A bonanza of hits! The blockbuster season is here!
Connecticut Cartoonist #8: Uncle Oskar’s Ragtime Band
Whitman/Dell Comics and a trio of artists.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/7/16 – Urgent Call to Action)
Now YOU can help overcome the anonymity imposed by commercial production! It’s like we’re all with the Shadow.
Error Report?: Comics, Text, and Editing
Words, punctuation, and “orthographic consistency” on the comics page: theories and practices.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/31/16 – Sweaty New Books Lolling Blearily In Shops)
Latest upcoming movie and NEW RELEASE COMICS news! Please continuing enjoying your favorite “nerd culture” website!!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/24/16 – A Quiet Week)
Time for spiritual contemplation.
Episode 13: MariNaomi
The Turning Japanese creator talks Mardou’s Sky in Stereo, Bloom County, Cheryl Strayed, and much more. Plus, a fond farewell to a fan-favorite question.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/17/16 – Legendary Archives of Dazzling Treasure)
WOW, look at all these reprints. A comic book too; it’s a sequel.
Gene Ahern Covers The Conventions
You might have missed this. Gene Ahern, a popular newspaper cartoonist covered the tense, rancorous presidential nominations by sending Major Hoople, his Our Boarding House comic strip character, to the Republican and Democratic national conventions. It’s understandable if you didn’t happen to catch Ahern’s coverage in the funny pages. After all, it happened in 1928.… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/10/16 – Maximum Relevance)
Real shit in the real world.
Comics Criticism: Seven Hot Takes for Summer 2016
She tweeted that “comics criticism is trash and must be destroyed.” Does “comics” agree? In this episode, Grid veers away from comics boosterism (and moves perilously close to parody) as we search for answers. That, and Frank Cho’s unmentionables.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/3/16 – Blooming Sun)
Some things are inevitable.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/27/16 – Keep ’em peeled.)
The rampant commerce column where you can believe your eyes once more.
Episode 12: Anna Bongiovanni
Discussing Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls!, Bread and Wine, Kiki Smith, and so much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/20/16 – Return to Dream Land)
Hope to see you in San Diego! I mean, sometime in the future. I’m not going this week, fuck that.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/13/16 – Invisible Monsters)
The whole world is watching.
