Jason Bergman interviews Jay Stephens, a longtime indie comics practitioner enjoying a new wave of appreciation for his throwback horror series Dwellings.
William Schwartz speaks with cartoonist Norm Feuti about Retail, a daily strip about day-to-day work that ran from 2006 to 2020.
Jake Zawlacki talks to artist Matt Lesniewski about his ascendant career, his interests in storytelling, and his recent series Faceless and the Family.
Steven Brower chats with Tim Lane, one of the standout alternative cartoonists of the 21st century, whose new comic book series, Mythologies & Apocrypha, debuts this month.
MariNaomi talks to Leela Corman about her new graphic novel, Victory Parade, as well as women’s wrestling, Yiddishkeit, and the power of transgressive art.
Hagai Palevsky interviews UK artist Gareth A. Hopkins on abstract comics, autobiography, the texture of the page, and thinking a lot about what you are doing.
Jason Bergman chats with Jordan Mechner, pioneering designer of computer games like Prince of Persia, and more recently a writer of historical adventure comics. Now he’s turned cartoonist with Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, a 320-page solo graphic memoir out this week.
The site of countless comics-buying pilgrimages will vanish this summer, as the Koch Comics Warehouse, a towering trove of pamphlets, books and everything else, closes down for good. Zach Rabiroff chats with proprietor Joseph Koch about this decision, and what happens next.
Lucy Knisley, a cartoonist well-known for her work in memoir, interviews Lonnie Mann, who’s just released his first book-length work of autobiographical comics, Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood.
Robert Aman sits down with Finnish cartoonist Ville Ranta, whose work ranges from memoir to historical fiction to ribald political satire – with a special emphasis on his efforts to swim in the big pool of French comics publishing.
Zach Rabiroff chats up an impresario of contemporary underground horror comics: Harry Nordlinger, editor and publisher of the ongoing comic book anthology Vacuum Decay, and artist of comics like the recent Floating World release Night Cruising.
Edward Dorey interviews Elizabeth Fiend, aka Luna Ticks: musician, television host, zine-maker, and contributor to underground comics like Weirdo and Tits & Clits in the heat of the punk era.
An extensive talk with one of the most instantly recognizable stylists of the past 35 years, on the occasion of a mammoth new retrospective, Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean.
Natalie Norris and Karina Shor are cartoonists who released debut longform comics in 2023; both were memoirs depicting trauma in their lives. In this conversation, they discuss their intent, their process, and the effect of this work on their daily lives.
RJ Casey interviews Sally Madden & Katie Skelly, cartoonists and hosts of the popular Thick Lines podcast, now celebrating its three-year anniversary.
You make a comic, you put it online. It becomes one of the most repeated memes around. Then what do you do? William Schwartz talks with artist KC Green about a variety of webcomic, print comic, and syndicated comics projects that do not always involve a dog in a burning room.
Zach is back on the Philadelphia scene for a long talk with Steven “S.R.” Arnold, a collaborator on half a decade’s worth of self-published and anthology comics, recently struck out solo with the bleak and funny slice-of-life specials Perry Midlife and Perry Shitlife.
Jason Bergman sits down with the British comics superstar and co-creator of several very famous genre comics to discuss his recent autobiography.
Zach Rabiroff chats with one of the best young cartoonists on the busy Philadelphia scene: Nate Garcia, prolific creator of the surreal cowboy Alanzo Sneak and much, much more.
Of the early examples of Japanese/American comic book cross-pollination, perhaps the most striking is 1970-71’s Supaidāman, Ikegami Ryōichi’s notoriously bleak, violent, political spin on Marvel’s Spider-Man. In this 2002 interview, translated to English for the first time, Ikegami himself discusses the genesis and the legacy of the project.
Cut class, tell the boss you’re sick, hand the kids an iPad – we’ve got an old-fashioned career-spanner here, as Jason Bergman sifts through a megatonnage of work with the one and only Donald Simpson.
A titanic tête-à-tête transcribed! Jake Zawlacki chats with Chris Wisnia, writer/artist of the recent Doris Danger: Giant Monsters Amok, about the delicate balance of parody and tribute (and the behemothic labor involved) in evoking the world of Silver Age monster comics.
Jake Zawlacki talks science fiction, story construction, personal faith and what’s cool with Daniel Warren Johnson, a standout writer/artist of contemporary American action comics.
There’s been a few Daniel Clowes interviews in the last few weeks, but none go as deep as John Kelly does today. Learn the secrets of Monica – or at least as many as the author is willing to tell.
