“I Love Second Acts in Comics”: An Interview with Jason Shiga
The creator of Fleep, Bookhunter, and Demon talks webcomics, day jobs, the pleasures of solving puzzles, and competing with Craig Thompson.
Features
An Interview with Michael Maslin
Talking to the cartoonist and author about The New Yorker, society, and Peter Arno.
A Retrofit Comics Survey
Taking stock of a wide, stylistically various range of comics, released over the past three years by the imprint run by Box Brown and Big Planet Comics.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/15/16 – Machine Shop)
This time, I shall preserve the margins of the front page with mechanical precision.
Episode 10: Lane Milburn
Milburn (Twelve Gems) discusses halting his Vice strip Envoy, a ‘lazy river’ theory of comics-making, the Closed Caption Comics group, and polarizing creators from R. Crumb to Frank Miller.
Outcault, Goddard, the Comics, and the Yellow Kid
How They Unwittingly Conspired To Bring a New Mass Medium into Popular Culture.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/8/16 – Verdammtendämmerung)
As above, so below: Hellboy is all about love.
An Interview with Chester Brown
Two masters of the comics medium talk sex, comics, religion, and critics.
Lauren Weinstein on 5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
The Girl Stories and Goddess of War artist talks about the newly translated 5,000 km per second, recently published by Fantagraphics.
Paper Girls
No one is writing about how four adult men came to create a successful comic book about four young girls.
The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager (1904-06)
Now, we wind the clock back to 1904 and take a look at what could be called the “lost” Sundays of Gus Mager – three short series that represent fascinating experiments in style and content.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/1/16 – Hee Haw)
Don’t ask me why there’s so many jokes this week. I went to three Memorial Day parties, so maybe I’m Fun.
Lulu Hitchcock Apocrypha!
Tim Hensley’s astonishing Sir Alfred #3, in which Alfred Hitchcock becomes what he already was: a comic-strip character.
Brecht Evens: Pantherman
Brecht Evens, Flemish author/artist of the gorgeously stylish The Wrong Place and The Making Of, is back with Panther.
The Carlos Giménez Interview
Carlos Giménez has long been considered one of the great cartoonists of Spain, and he’s just released the first English translation of Paracuellos: Children of the Defeated in Franco’s Fascist Spain.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/25/16 – Ease Up)
A financial reprieve.
Praying for It
Chester Brown’s Mary Wept over the Feet of Jesus is a logical extension of the examination to which was subjecting himself in Paying for It, and which arguably goes back as far as 1992’s The Playboy.
Darwyn Cooke, 1962-2016
An obituary and tribute.
The Screwball Comics of Gus Mager: Hippos, Monks and Sherlock Holmes
Known primarily for Hawkshaw the Detective, which ran off and on from 1913 through 1947, Mager was a fine cartoonist and accomplished painter associated with the Ashcan School.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/18/16 – Mysterious Suspense)
All of us look for answers.
A World Without Siné
Remembering the provocative French cartoonist. Siné: December 31, 1928 – May 5, 2016.
The Darwyn Cooke Interview
In this 2007 interview, Cooke talks about growing up in Canada, his career in animation and comics, and whether or not he can actually take anyone in a fight.
The Horror! The Horror!: Graham Ingels and the Art of Real Yuch
Who Graham Ingels was (and wasn’t) before, after and during EC Comics.
