It was the Dr. Who of the 1940s, a comic strip that traveled though history with verve and panache — not to mention lots of wisecracks. Only, instead of charming, eccentrically dressed Englishmen wielding sonic screwdrivers, there was a practically naked caveman with a stone ax.
Just gonna crank through this one; it’s gonna work like a fridge. Keep the food cold.
The elusive French-Beninese comics artist Yvan Alagbé returns to expand upon his 1994 masterwork Les Nègres jaunes. The result is one of the most intricate, challenging, and moving grand family narratives in comics.
Business evolution, comic book heroes and comic book makers.
Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of COMICS has brought me derision and reproach all the day.
When things are bad. The final installment of this week’s Eleanor Davis’s diaries.
Chatting about the depictions of teenage friendships in the books of Dan Clowes.
An unexpected visitor.
Telephone pole serenade.
None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with you. You’re locked up in here with me.
Contemplating online feminism
Some assignments are more difficult than others.
A conversation with the creator of #foodporn and Lady Turbo about sex, Catholicism, grotesque imagery, the transition from fine art to comics, and “hot dudes serving food.”
Fiction writer and academic Brian Evenson joined Mike Dawson for a conversation about Chester Brown’s early graphic-novel, Ed the Happy Clown, which was first serialized in the one man anthology, Yummy Fur, and subsequently collected in a variety of formats.
The loves of a mangaka: XPOSED.
Modern art, comics, and some words with Seiichi Hayashi.
The first installment of a new monthly column, in which the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer uses principles of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and comparative mythology to deliberately overthink the symbolic language of comics.
The gangly years of an old legend.
Dapper Dan! Can I write about movies! Uhh, Boyhood hasn’t opened around here yet…
Etta Hulme is an icon in editorial cartooning, a trailblazer for women cartoonists. She was a full-time editoonist on the staff of a major metropolitan daily newspaper before any other woman cartoonist was; she was widely syndicated at a time when no other woman cartoonist was.
Visually, there are very few gifted cartoonists who are as remorselessly ungiving as Nick Maandag. There is no succulent texture in his universe, no oasis of exfoliating leafy beauty to offer relief from the aridity of the art.
Whew, thank heavens that run-in with prominence is over!
Hothead Paisan
