West Coast Tour Diary
California to Portland
California to Portland
Digging up George Carlson and his extremely busy career.
MEN. WOMEN. TUMBLR. WE’VE GOT IT ALL TODAY.
Dana Simpson’s current strip, Heavenly Nostrils, is one of the best comic strips running today, on- or offline.
Revisiting magazines that covered small press comic books from the mid 90s.
Wow, topical joke! Stellar work.
A look at the pencils for Fantastic Four # 61.
Uncovering the meaning of the name Garo
A good week to be a comic book maker.
In this 1991 interview, Gary Groth talks to Arnold Roth about jazz, Humbug, Harvey Kurtzman, the Senate hearings, Poor Arnold’s Almanac, National Lampoon, and more.
An image, a review, a number of guesses.
The sense I get from SAW’s first year is that Hart’s aim was to create a collaboration and dialogue with his students, rather than create a rigid differentiation between the teacher and his pupils.
A brief report
In Part I of this two-part survey, Ken Parille reviews twelve comic books and graphic novels, paying attention to the words they use.
So what did you do last weekend? I went to a comics show.
In a classic example of authors responding to their critics circa 1988, Terry Beatty and his girlfriend Wendi Lee refute a negative review of Wild Dog in this series of letters from TCJ’s Blood and Thunder. An “I am not Terry Beatty’s Girlfriend” letter-writing contest ensues.
Raw Power creator Josh Bayer talks about covering ROM Spaceknight, this spring’s Tumblr controversy, Retrofit, working with his music-video director brother, and the overrated nature of originality.
A complete round up of all the entries
A conversation with the longtime British cartoonist.
Quite a lot of comics and not a lot of time; I am left sputtering.
A sketch of the landscape of independent comics in India today.
Tucker wonders why he’s still reading superhero comics.
I breakdown a comics spread that can be read different ways.
The politics of Harvey Kurtzman’s war comics.