Lucy Knisley — Day Three
Addressing save-the-date cards.
Columns
Lucy Knisley — Day Two
Why she isn’t visiting your state on her book tour.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/3/13 – A Gentleman Creeper’s Brief Vignette)
A trip to the seedy side of digital comics fizzles out, yet our beloved art form endures!
Lucy Knisley — Day One
Getting ready to release a book…
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/27/13 – European Comics Crisis)
LOOK OUT, new comics are comin’ ta getcha! And they’re not from around here…
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/20/13 – The Most Normal Comic in the World)
“Anything is impossible these days.”
Filipino Komiks and Japanese Sex Tourism: Joe Gatchalian’s Clone Woman
A curious cultural synergy.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/13/13 – Digital Comics Ultimate Apocalypse: Aftermath)
Where were you when the world ended? Pennsylvania? London? HERE?!
Big Robot, Big Foot
Can you identify these comic book references in a couple of seminal Japanese comics?
Charles Barsotti
The Kansas City-based cartoonist discusses his long career in cartoons and at The New Yorker.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/6/13 – A Wafer Duly Spat to the Floor at the American Secular Mass)
More service than you can stand; more attention than you can bear.
I Totally Forgot To Get Mad At That Remake of Total Recall
Can mainstream comics hire the Green River Killer? Is the Green River Killer willing to demean himself by working for Marvel or DC?
Stan Lynde, the Western, and the Spirit of Independence
Rich O’Shay, Latigo, The Price of Fame, and Pardners,
Days of Yesteryear
Now that all our fond hopes for 2013 have been dashed and our memories of 2012 rendered into a whited sepulcher, wouldn’t it be wonderful to relive those innocent times? Well, then, I’ve got the column for you.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/27/13 – Last Century in Comics Critics!)
Be this the mark of ideals, or decay? Only critics know, and now they’re talking… FROM AN AGE BEFORE THE COMICS JOURNAL!!
Fairy Quest: Outlaws No. 1
Can we declare a moratorium on mix-and-match fairy tale pastiche, especially the kind with obvious franchise ambitions?
Tezuka Osamu Outwits the Phantom Blot: The Case of New Treasure Island cont’d
Osamu Tezuka, Sakai Shichima and the complicated history of a manga classic.
Minicomics Of Note
Ten of the most interesting comics that have come my way over the past few months.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/20/13 – Irregular Holiday Celebrations)
Cooking up the freshest capsule summaries of whatever looks to be coming. PLUS: “Movies of the French”
Friendly Ghosts and Comics Form
Greatness and minimalism in a disposable kid’s comic . . .
