Leslie Stein: Day 1
Waking up and scooting.
Features
London Calling: Blank Slate Books and Nobrow Press
Every now and then, when a new publishing concern pops up, one wonders how it’s possible they weren’t there all along.
Jack Davis in Conversation with Drew Friedman and Gary Groth
Live from Brooklyn.
Make Those Lazy Readers Write It
While CD-ROM publishers were trying to figure out how to turn Spider-Man into an immersive virtual experience, some webcomics were already using the interactive properties of the Web in more organic ways.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/11/12 – Fairies Don’t Wear Boots)
I AM TOTALLY NOT A PURITAN, GOSH! Naked fairies and obscure publishing in this one, make sure you’re not at the pulpit.
My Dinner with Hitch
Gary Groth recounts one memorable evening with Christopher Hitchens.
Chicago, IL Scene Report
What about The Effigies?
Ronald Searle: 1920-2011
The great British cartoonist’s life.
The Bottom of a Bottomless Barrel: Introducing Akahon Manga
A new discovery and a shit-eating grin.
The Kevin Eastman Interview Part I
In Part One of this two-part 1998 interview, conducted by Gary Groth, Kevin Eastman talks about the rise of the Ninja Turtles, Creators Rights and the first Direct Market black-and-white boom.
Motorbooty: The Better Magazine
The Loud, The Lewd, and The Funky
The Kevin Eastman Interview Part 2
In this 1998 interview with Gary Groth, Kevin Eastman explains how Tundra lost 14 million dollars publishing alternative comics.
Readers Respond to the Kevin Eastman Interview
Here are readers’ responses to the Kevin Eastman interview.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/4/12 – Yesterday was Monday?)
Racing into the new year with a barrel full of picks and pistol’s worth of… brief introductory material!
Ramble On
Sing My Song
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/28/11 – God, I Can’t Help Myself)
Comics wait for nobody, and thus we have a brief holiday update. I got a smoothie machine.
Austin, TX Scene Report
Do you remember the Big Boys?
Burying 2011: Forever
In which we close up shop for a week and point you to some reading.
Out of the Past
Michel Choquette and The Someday Funnies: a veritable Lost Dutchman’s lode of comic history
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/21/11 – Void Indigena)
Don’t get yourself down. It’s just another end of time.
Sally Madden’s Personal Scene Report
Girl Talk
Joseph Henry Simon: October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011
If Joe Simon had only created Captain America, he would still be a comic book legend. But his career lasted for decades and encompassed dozens of memorable characters and thousands of pages of comics.
