THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/3/16 – Blooming Sun)
Some things are inevitable.
Features
A Conversation with Jack Davis
In this 2000 interview from The Comics Journal #225, Jim Woodring talks to Jack Davis about his college life, moving to New York, MAD and EC’s influence, and the famed editors and publishers he worked with.
Tributes to Richard Thompson
Memories from Warren Bernard, Craig Fischer, Charles Hatfield, and others.
Jack Burton Davis Jr., 1924-2016
“I always wanted to be a cartoonist.”
Tributes to Jack Davis
The great Jack Davis in words and images by Drew Friedman, Gary Panter, Peter Bagge, Joe Kubert, Ruben Bolling, Michael Bartalos, and Jim Woodring.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/27/16 – Keep ’em peeled.)
The rampant commerce column where you can believe your eyes once more.
The Michael Zulli Interview
The artist of Puma Blues discusses his work in comics.
“I Never Thought of Myself as a Cartoonist”: A Glen Baxter Interview
Baxter has been creating strange, perplexing, delightful pieces that blur (and possibly erase) the lines between art and comics since the 1970s.
Meeting Mr. Munch
Steffen Kverneland on graphic biography and The Scream
Episode 12: Anna Bongiovanni
Discussing Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls!, Bread and Wine, Kiki Smith, and so much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/20/16 – Return to Dream Land)
Hope to see you in San Diego! I mean, sometime in the future. I’m not going this week, fuck that.
The Webtoon: A New Form for Graphic Narrative
A look at the differences between print comics and Korean webcomics, or webtoons, and the effects and implications that those differences generate in terms of the aesthetics of webcomics as a new medium.
Geneviève Castrée: 1981-2016
The Canadian cartoonist, musician, and multimedia artist died Saturday, July 9, at the age of thirty-five.
Remembering Geneviève Castrée
Tributes to Geneviève Castrée by Anders Nilsen and Diane Obomsawin.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/13/16 – Invisible Monsters)
The whole world is watching.
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.
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.
“I Want Everything to Mean Something”: A Conversation with MariNaomi
Talking to the Turning Japanese creator about storytelling, promotion, traveling to Japan, and an atheist’s take on spirituality.
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)
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