Frank’s Comics Corner
Back in the Saddle Again.
Features
Part 10: Cartoon Tunes
In which our man goes digging, completes a comic book, and makes a radical new discovery.
The Mike Dawson Interview
The cartoonist talks about immigrating to America, art school politics, getting uptight about pot, going to sex resorts, camping with Boy Scouts, recording podcasts, and making comics for publishers both big and small.
Welcome to the Attic
This column will be my monthly report from the front—or, more accurately, from the rafters.
A Short Interview with Warren Craghead
Checking in with the artist and bookmaker.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/7/11 – Machine Power)
WOW: Zombies, 3D – it’s an all-disrepute special!
Labor Day War
Last time…with feeling
Part 9: Westward
This week: Drugs, relationships, and the San Francisco comics scene.
Comic Book Fever
A childhood seized by comics. From a forthcoming memoir by the author.
Manga 3.11: The Tsunami, the Japanese Publishing Industry, Suzuki Miso’s Reportage, and the One Piece Lifeboat
The effects of the tsunami on the business and content of Japanese comics publishing.
Tom Kaczynski
Publisher and cartoonist Tom Kaczynski is the guest in the TCJ Talkie Hutt this week.
Introducing The Small Press Expo Collection
A brief interview with Warren Bernard on the new project with The Library of Congress, which will formally archive both the festival itself and many of the comics it annually features.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/31/11 – Young Funnies Live Forever)
Secret links between Ben Katchor and The Crow, and other amusements while my editors are without power.
Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy
Zippy, the character, not the comic strip, passed the forty-year milestone late last year.
Tulsa Boogie Woogie
Route 666!
Part 8: The Sixties
Dropping in…
Steve Ditko — HA! / AH! — Laughing at Death.
Ditko is a satirist — Ditko creates Black and White Black Comedy with Sick Humor. Ditko’s Creeper: Performance, Heroism, and Mania. Ditko is the single most innovative artist/humorist to come out of the Mainstream Comics Industry. Discuss.
“I Feel Myself Like a Genius and a Sacred Whore”: A Few Questions for Alejandro Jodorowsky
Submitted for the promotion of mental and spiritual health worldwide.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/24/11 – Fat, Fat Books)
EUROCOMICS STEALTH INVASION SUMMER ’11: OPERATION CHOKEHOLD
Lee Lorenz: Cartoonist, Editor, Writer, Jazzbo
An interview with the cartoonist, historian, art director and jazz musician.
St. Louis Shuffle
On the road.
Part 7: Definitions
Shipping out…
Five Aspects of the Reprint High Renaissance
It’s as if a hive decision was arrived at among publishers to produce, once and for all, a comprehensive national comics library in print.
Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt, creator of I Want You, talks about comics, performance, and drawing at parties.
