Columns
Shinohara Ushio’s Action Cartooning
A lost body of work we might simply call “action cartooning,” a name that captures the two art historical currents that underwrite Ushio Shinohara’s figurative work,
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/19/14 – Local Variants)
Scenes from two translations in a short column for a short week.
No Whining on the Yacht!
Frank’s Angoulême International Comics Festival tour diary
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/12/14 – Seasons Outside)
Too much snow up here. Oh, for the pleasure of the springtime woods… yes, pleasure…
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/5/14 – One to Grow On)
EUROPEAN COMICS LEVELS: PLUMMETING! EMERGENCY! MUST BULK UP TOP HALF OF COLUMN!
“This Strange Profession”: Abner Dean Interrogates the Gag
The “Brave Nude World” of philosopher, psychologist, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and cartoonist Abner Dean.
“He is Awake — Must Carry Out Mission Programmed During War”
Captain America, Syd Shores, and the Marvel Method.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/29/14 – I’M COMING IN, HIGHSIDE)
I’m just charging into this one, guns blazing. Nothing can keep me from European comics. Nothing.
Seduction of the Innocent, Hiroshima 1950
An interesting research detour.
Humble Beginnings
Self published comics by Anders Nilsen and Adrian Tomine
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/22/14 – Good News for People Who Love Bad News)
A happy journey into the world of funny animals! What a sunny week ahead!
Bill Boichel’s BEM Publications ’85-’98
Obscure mini-comics from Pittsburgh PA!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/15/14 – How Many People Can Say They’ve Drawn the Biggest Comic There Was?)
Examining one of the under-read comics of last year, despite all the commotion.
Clunkers from the Back Issue Bin
Number 1’s which never ever sell.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/8/14 – Heavenly Vortex)
It sure would be nice to visit a tropical island right now. Let’s have a transgressive comics legend guide our tour!
TH[ESE] (PAST) WEEK(S) IN COMICS! (12/24/13 & 12/31/13 – Tuesdays in Retrospect)
EXTRA! BREAKING! EXCLUSIVE! I read a bunch of dubious comic books on my holiday! REVIEWS INSIDE!
Best of Greatest Hits 2006-2012
The Internet remembers for me so I don’t have to.
The Wuvable World of Ed Luce
Some have referred to Luce’s Oaf comics as “the gay version of Scott Pilgrim,” but the obvious alt-comics comparison is Jaime Hernandez.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/18/13 – Father Christmas is Unwell)
Proving once again that a lump of coal is never too far from a lake of fire.
Bengal’s Drighangchoo: An Interview with Deeptanil Ray
I had been under the impression that Comix India, inaugurated in 2010, was the first amateur comics magazine in India. It might have been the first with significant heft and geographical reach. Chronologically, however, there is at least one precedent.
