Connecticut Cartoonists #6: More Quality Folks
This time our crew consists of Klaus Nordling, Harry Sahle, Tony DiPreta and, in Connecticut for a brief stay, Alex Kotzky.
Columns
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and Editorial Cartooning
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, discussed recently the implications for her profession of the social media reactions to the notorious “Ted Cruz monkey children” cartoon she drew last December.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/6/16 – Tiny New Bites)
Just a few morsels for us to chew.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/29/16 – Carnivalesque)
The no-liberation zone.
Episode 11: Dean Haspiel
The cartoonist behind The Quitter and Beef with Tomato talks the dual impacts of Jack Kirby and Prince, as well as his new serial, The Red Hook.
Connecticut Cartoonists #5: The Philosopher of Okefenokee Swamp
Walt Kelly, George Ward, Pogo, and politics.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/22/16 – Mighty No. ’98)
Dedicated to you. Our future pioneers…
A Retrofit Comics Survey
Taking stock of a wide, stylistically various range of comics, released over the past three years by the imprint run by Box Brown and Big Planet Comics.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/15/16 – Machine Shop)
This time, I shall preserve the margins of the front page with mechanical precision.
Episode 10: Lane Milburn
Milburn (Twelve Gems) discusses halting his Vice strip Envoy, a ‘lazy river’ theory of comics-making, the Closed Caption Comics group, and polarizing creators from R. Crumb to Frank Miller.
Outcault, Goddard, the Comics, and the Yellow Kid
How They Unwittingly Conspired To Bring a New Mass Medium into Popular Culture.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/8/16 – Verdammtendämmerung)
As above, so below: Hellboy is all about love.
Lauren Weinstein on 5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
The Girl Stories and Goddess of War artist talks about the newly translated 5,000 km per second, recently published by Fantagraphics.
The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager (1904-06)
Now, we wind the clock back to 1904 and take a look at what could be called the “lost” Sundays of Gus Mager – three short series that represent fascinating experiments in style and content.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/1/16 – Hee Haw)
Don’t ask me why there’s so many jokes this week. I went to three Memorial Day parties, so maybe I’m Fun.
Lulu Hitchcock Apocrypha!
Tim Hensley’s astonishing Sir Alfred #3, in which Alfred Hitchcock becomes what he already was: a comic-strip character.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/25/16 – Ease Up)
A financial reprieve.
Praying for It
Chester Brown’s Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a logical extension of the examination to which was subjecting himself in Paying for It, and which arguably goes back as far as 1992’s The Playboy.
The Screwball Comics of Gus Mager: Hippos, Monks and Sherlock Holmes
Known primarily for Hawkshaw the Detective, which ran off and on from 1913 through 1947, Mager was a fine cartoonist and accomplished painter associated with the Ashcan School.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/18/16 – Mysterious Suspense)
All of us look for answers.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/11/16 – Crashing Headlong Into the Limits of My Charisma
Joe is 1. back from vacation and 2. sick, but we trust the orgonic radiance of comics will restore his vim before midnight falls on the country hills.
Nuclear Literati: Nakashima Kiyoshi’s Furusato Goes to Hell
The complicated role of Nakashima Kiyoshi at the intersection of art and power in Japan’s Nuclear culture.
Sara Lautman: Day Five — Classic Date Spot/Natto
Walking with Jeremy
Sara Lautman: Day Four — The Hum/Outpost
Talking psychoanalysis
