Sitting down again with the acclaimed and prolific British cartoonist, who’s just seen the release of an omnibus collection for his Grandville series, and will soon be returning to the world of his pioneering graphic novel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright.
As night falls on another week, we offer you sips of contemplation to ease your journey… into mystery?!
Kim Jooha takes a look at collage/appropriation and the various ways in which those techniques have been used in fine art and comics.
Tom digs into the early days of the DC gunfighter, and considers how mounting elements of sophistication only troubled the Weird Western star.
Cartoonist Warren Craghead and cartoonist Simon Moreton discuss Moreton’s latest creation, WHERE?, the projects and work method that brought it to fruition, and how Simon manages such a prodigious output.
Worried you’ll arrive at your next virtual comics convention without an ability to navigate all the various comics conversations? Toss those worries in the dumpster: Clark is here, and he’s got you covered with all the links you’ll need to enough comics news to keep overlong chat sessions moving while you wait to see a movie trailer!
Good boy, Hank.
Scenes from the early life of Hank, as MK Reed’s diary week continues.
An exploration of two recent crowdfunded comics tackling social ills from an anti-authoritarian perspective: Night Hunters, created by Alexis Ziritt & Dave Baker; and Beef Bros, created by Tyrell Cannon & Aubrey Sitterson.
Garden work; a helpful pet; a fancy dress; trophies awarded before a thousand eyes in an empty room.
Today, MK and her sibling try to find some sense of normalcy in the face of 2020’s various awfulness by heading out to the farm!
In this expansive interview, Nate Powell describes the experience of working with Congressman John Lewis and writer Andrew Aydin on the widely popular March trilogy, his most recent non-fiction comics work Save It For Later, and how his work and parenting has been informed and changed by the American political climate of the last four years.
A new Cartoonist’s Diary begins, and so does a new era for a dog, depicted by MK Reed as having experienced, for the first time…well, you’ll just have to read on to find out!
While there are a hundred canoes you can take to the isle of knowledge, wouldn’t it be preferable to take the canoe featuring all the comics news, reviews and points-of-view that has burst forth in the last seven days? Of course it would: and Clark is beckoning to you. Take his hand, friend!
In the conclusion of Tegan’s look back at Knightfall, she makes her way to the other lodestone creator of 90s Batman iconography: filmmaker Joel Schumaker, whose colorful versions of Gotham City’s most popular inhabitants couldn’t be further from where Bruce Wayne now resides. Or could they?
Echoes of the infamous author in the superhero comic book behemoths of the 1980s – satirized in Watchmen, and domesticated in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
It’s an artist-on-artist special, as comics and animation veteran Tom Herpich makes his way through 14 years’ worth of manga by that inspiring and infuriating legend, Shirow Masamune, recording his thoughts book by book.
Publisher, editor and writer Bill Campbell talks with Ian Thomas about his new graphic novel with Bizhan Khodabandeh,The Day The Klan Came To Town, the historical riot that inspired it, the unfortunate yet obvious parallels to today’s white supremacy, and the future of his own Rosarium Publishing.
I had to look up the word “Murgatroyd”, you know. Check the spelling, the usage. You can’t take anything for granted in this life – the life of the person who writes these little texts. It’s a good life…
Tegan’s epic look at Jim Aparo, Batman, and Knightfall continues with a necessary stopover in the land of Denny O’Neil, the editor who ran USS Batman for over a decade.
Bob is calling class to order, and this time, he’s looking back at Vaughn Shoemaker, the question of who invented the “Q” in John Q. Public, how the Gospels made it past the editing stage, and supplying some professional anecdotes of the way things used to be, professionally..
Catching up with one of the prime movers behind the Library of American Comics, compilers of over 200 books of classic American comic strips – with more to come.
Whew, it’s been a hot week here. Almost as hot as these amazing links. God, I could have been a political cartoonist. I mean, a bad one. You just combine one thing with another; that’s what the bad ones do. These links are good, however.
A look into a cartoon controversy in the Netherlands, as a lauded artist of comic albums shifts into political cartooning for a new conspiratorial magazine.
