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My sister sent me a Snapchat reading BEST POST-IT NOTE EVER. It was a sheet of paper reading “This is my life now.”
My sister sent me a Snapchat reading BEST POST-IT NOTE EVER. It was a sheet of paper reading “This is my life now.”
Remembering Rachel Pollack: a lifelong traveler in the arcane, the esoteric, and the revelatory.
It’s off to Salt Lake City to speak with Greg Gage about back issues, what it’s really like to deal with all those new distributors, and how companies like Marvel & DC might get things back on track: the answer probably isn’t in a movie theater!
Paul Karasik pays tribute to Ed Koren, the beloved New Yorker cartoonist who died last week at the age of 87.
Jason Bergman catches up with Stephen R. Bissette – writer, artist, critic, editor, publisher and educator, feeling a sense of vigor about the future.
Bob grapples with three comics—all with varying degrees of venom within—and questions whether or not having a point is required, or if a point of view is enough.
An obituary for Al Jaffee, one of the last of the legends, and a truly beloved American cartoonist.
Risograph and scratchboard, handmade and silk-screened – Daria Tessler’s direct approach to comics making has seen her release all sorts of work over the last few years, and it looks like publishers are starting to catch on. She and Jake Grubman sit down to discuss comics – how to read them, how to make them, and how to navigate surviving them.
This post is your internet Easter bonnet. Put it on your head.
The manga artist Matsumoto Leiji died this past February, leaving a wide and varied body of work behind him – though he is perhaps best remembered for his lyrical SF comics. In this excerpt from a 1997 book, Natsume Fusanosuke considers how the famous Space Battleship Yamato represented the idea of war for a generation too young to have seen it for themselves.
Zach speaks with one of the most well-known comics retailers in the world, Chuck Rozanski, who has refused to let capitalism, right-wing zealots, a coal-covered floor or a brain bleed stop him from doing what he loves: running Mile High Comics.
Andrew Farago pens an obituary for one of the key inkers of the Silver Age of superhero comics, and a longtime artist—credited or otherwise—on serial newspaper strips. Beloved by his peers, Joe Giella died last month at the age of 94.
What’s it like to become a meme? To have a piece of your work picked up and excerpted, quoted, evoked in a place far removed from comics? RJ Casey chats with Gina Wynbrandt over just such an episode.
Ryan Carey explores some of the most mysterious comics to emerge from NYC in a while – the allegorical, often-wordless graphic novels of MMYOPE.
Zach Rabiroff talks to the founders of the Cartoonist Cooperative, a new organization seeking to provide community aid for comics artists in the midst of a hazardous economic environment.
Edward Dorey speaks to the editor of the new Tits & Clits compendium about academia, feminism, and the shifting historical reputation of comics.
Among the comic book titles of the underground era, few were as memorable as Tits & Clits. On the occasion of a new omnibus collection, Edward Dorey sits down with editor/co-founder Joyce Farmer, editor Mary Fleener, and latter-day publisher Ron Turner to hear the story of this groundbreaking erotic anthology for women.
When times look tough, news will carry you like a strapping lover, aloft thru the brambles of dull care. -from my novel, The Corrections
Beginning a new irregular feature, in which Tegan treats the artists in collaborative genre comics the way writers are more often treated: as authors of their own oeuvre. First up is the slick and shadowed stylist Lee Weeks.
Zach speaks to comics retail fixture Buddy Saunders about how he went from the early days of comics mail order to online comics behemoth – and all the direct market stores he ran in the meantime.
The artist Marc Tessier presents a massive photo record of recent exhibitions in Angoulême and Marseille dedicated to Julie Doucet and the late Henriette Valium.
Scholar Esther Claudio-Moreno sits down with the artist behind We’re All Just Fine for a discussion of art, language, politics & generational attitudes in Spanish history.