Let’s Set This Bed On Fire, With Passion and Love
The comics of 2013 are off to an … excellent start.
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Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 4
Road trip to Gainesville.
Stop Making Sense!
That grubby minicomic you grabbed off the bar, or found plugging the vent in the convention hall bathroom, which made no sense to you at the time, and probably makes even less now, was likely signed Dongery.
Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 3
Work and play in Florida.
Gabrielle Gamboa — Day 2
The residents settle in…
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/9/13 – Cues Throughout History)
Several indelicate thrusts toward a taxonomy of experiential comics, starring the young and the dead.
Cartoon Utopian: An Interview with Ron Rege Jr.
Ron Rege Jr. talks to Jay Babcock about the rich mixtures of ideas and references embedded in his new book, The Cartoon Utopia, encompassing everything from Nicola Tesla to Yoko Ono.
Gabrielle Gamboa—Day 1
The first day of Gabrielle Gamboa’s diary, documenting her residency at the Atlantic Center of the Arts last fall.
The 19 Best Comics of 2012
2012: there weren’t a lot of great comics, but there were a few, and there were quite a lot of really good comics. Very, very few of them came out of left field, which is to be expected–the internet certainly blesses us with access to new talent, but it can’t create new talent, and the… Read more »
Keiji Nakazawa Interview
In this 2003 interview, translator Alan Gleason talks to Keiji Nakazawa about how his firsthand experiences informed Barefoot Gen, his manga contemporaries and his career.
THIS (THESE) (PAST) WEEK(S) IN COMICS! (1/2/13 – All of you remain trapped here with me.)
That sure is a lot of comics piled up. Only the snowbound would have time to read ’em all. And only the snow plow could afford ’em. Provided he or she is charging by the flake.
Keiji Nakazawa, 1939-2012
Keiji Nakazawa, renowned throughout the world as the creator of Barefoot Gen, a first-hand account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, died on December 19th in Hiroshima, Japan.
The Best of 2012
Only the finest for you!
We’re All Sorry About The Choices You Made, But I Still Need Fries
Tucker on the controversial Spider-Man 700, and Abhay Khosla on the end of the year news.
“What We Accept as Real”: A Tom Kaczynski Interview
The cartoonist and publisher of Uncivilized Books talks about starting his own publishing company, advertising, his interest in fake history, politics, and why he draws so many faces in his sketchbooks.
Don’t Make Me Come Back There: A Whinge
On comics complaints, women in comics, and various approaches to public engagement.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/19/12 – Four Hour Power)
Racing into the holiday season before reality sets in!
Aidan Koch!
I almost didn’t want to interview Aidan Koch, since so much of the power of her elliptical comics stems from things left unsaid.
The Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez Interview
Catching up with the artists of Love and Rockets.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/12/12 – Perfect Limit)
Words are abstract. Images are concrete. Together, they form DITKO.
Three Kinds of Webcomics I Can’t Believe I’m Not Seeing
Despite all the thousands of webcomics knocking around in the tubes, some genres remain surprisingly underrepresented.
