THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/16/16 – L’Amour braque)
Men thinking about women, in different times and places…
Features
Jen Lee: Day One
Bothered by how the sun hits the rooms in a new house.
Connecticut Cartoonists #3: Quality Folks
Jack and Gill.
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
An excerpt focusing on Vanessa Davis’s work, taken from Tahneer Oksman’s important new contribution to the study of comics and identity.
Alex Robinson on Our Expanding Universe and His Serious Efforts to Keep Cartooning Fun
The Box Office Poison creator talks about his new book, his podcasting empire, what killed Career Killer, and how his work methods haven’t changed substantially since the 1990s.
The Anxiously Subversive Comics of Adam Buttrick
Buttrick was born and raised in the Midwest, but you wouldn’t know it from his comics. They feel universal, otherworldly, or more precisely, untraceable.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/9/16 – Lightning Returns)
Gotta go fast…
Confessions of a Manga Translator
A first-hand account of what a manga translator does, and doesn’t do, and how.
Connecticut Cartoonists #2: This Is A Job For Supermen
The fate of the Man of Steel’s artisans.
Today’s Feminist Comics: Why I Don’t Relate
It’s okay to be critical of the things you care about, and that’s the permission I’m giving myself to be critical of what are categorically called “feminist comics” these days.
“Going to 100”: An Interview with K.L. Ricks
A talk with the New England-based cartoonist, whose eerie, atmospheric comic for Hazlitt, “Country Darkness,” concludes with its third part next month.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/2/16 – Magnification)
A frightful force of expensive reprint items… but there’s always other ways to spend your money.
The Last Underground Cartoonist?: A Q&A with Robert Triptow
Talking to the longtime cartoonist and Class Photo creator about his origins, and his current creative renaissance.
The Brian Chippendale Interview
Dan Nadel talks to artist and musician Brian Chippendale about the history of Fort Thunder, “Maggots,” and artistic challenges.
Pro-Nuclear Manga: The Seventies and Eighties
Black and white, pens-for-hire nuclear propaganda manga.
The Economics of Comics: How Money Influenced the Art
It is ironic that the economics of the industry have for so much of its history worked against the art.
Underworld: The Editor’s Picks
Eric Reynolds, editor of the glorious Underworld collection, picks his favorites.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/24/16 – Ahead of My Time)
Capsule reviews! Er, two of ’em, not the rest! One is mostly a link! Wow! Gosh!
“I’ve Fully Embraced Rigidity”: Nick Drnaso on Beverly
Talking to the debut graphic novelist about his evolving style, writing with objectivity, and Midwestern repression.
Puke Force and the Power of Satire
Brian Chippendale, Puke Force, and the power of yes.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/17/16 – The Real Date Today)
“Oh thank god I got this done on time, my readers almost missed out on Franken Fran!”
Alvin Buenaventura, 1976-2016
Alvin Mark Buenaventura, the editor, printmaker, and prominent art comics publisher, was found dead in his Oakland, Calif., home on Thursday, February 11. He was 39.
Another Look at the East Village Eye
“There was no money. I think we were actually paid in drugs.” — Mark Michaelson, former art director The East Village Eye Lower New York has been the scene for numerous “art movements,” and the decade between the mid-70s and mid-80s sure was one of them, especially for the convergence of comics, “art,” and punk John Kelly | February 15, 2016
