The news–news born and devoted to the subject of comics–returns to you in its purest form: via the linkage of Clark’s nimble fingers. Imagine yourself fired across the cylinders of time, reading the reviews, news and interviews that make up this thing we study. Learning begins now!
Richard Short’s Klaus comics just saw their biggest collection yet, by way of Breakdown, and Joe Decie caught up with the creator about what it’s like, keeping up with the world’s most thoughtful cat.
Andrew White catches up with Madeleine Jubilee Saito about how she came to webcomics, creating in the Midwest, how Christianity informs and illuminates her work, and what her commitment to “30 Days of Comics” has taught her.
2021 is off to a roaring start, and who knows what news stories will attempt to stand between you and your comics awareness? Arm yourself with the links you need to stay informed about the sequential narrative you remain obsessed with: and then arm yourself again, with petulance!
RJ Casey’s last day at Fantagraphics is Friday, Ed ended his tenure at Koyama in December. I thought it would be a good time to catch them on the way out the door.
Ian Thomas talks with MK Czerwiec (the ComicNurse) about the growing passion the medical field has for comics, and how the popular website Graphic Medicine has expanded its focus over the last few years to encompass that growth–as well as how the project began!
Bob’s here with a brief history of the Dutch Treat Club, their notebook of nudes, and their old President, James Montgomery Flagg.
Steven Brower takes a look back at the wild and wooly (and probably libelous) life and times of D. Bruce Berry, which started in fandom and ended in The Fourth World.
Will Clark be able to find his way through the Bernie-memes and uncover this week’s comics news, reviews and interviews? Hell, should he? You’ll be on pins and needles all morning as soon as you…get to clicking!
It’s that time again: that Melinda Gebbie, Steve Ditko, New Yorker, Josh Bayer, Claire Bretécher and Isa Genzken time. Also, the Immortal Hulk. Austin was hungry!
Rory Blank talks with Ian Thomas about relying on a habit of daily production, surviving a job in content moderation intact, and what time he gets up now that the choice is up to him.
This time around, Goshkin is taking into a look at a recent Institute 193 publication called Cosmic Giggles, featuring work by Charles Williams.
Beginnings. Endings. Awards. Lists. Talking. Comics. Words. Periods After Words. Underlined words and phrases. The comics news has arrived! Clark is ready to send you out, shooting through the tubes, so that you may rest yourself upon it!
A new exhibition of Milton Caniff’s work is underway at the Palazzo Arti Fumetto Friuli (PAFF!) in Pordenone, Italy–but this is one you won’t need to travel to see!
We look back a century to see how a brilliant writer managed her existence–creative and mortal–and what that might tell us for the cartoonists of today.
Cartoonist and podcaster JB Roe catches us up on how Deathlok and the TMNT got him started with comics, how risographs and the small press have kept him going, and why he’s not concerned about blowback for expressing his opinions on Gutter Boys.
It’s a New Year, and that means it’s time for a New Roundup of all the New News: buddy, some of it is good. You just have to focus on the comics end of the stick!
The influential creator talks about how he got his start in comics, how a conversation with Jim Steranko helped cement his legacy, his time in animation, the return of Milestone, and how far comics has to go (and what it has to do) if it really wants to change its racist legacy.
Tom looks back at the 1997 Unknown Soldier, when Garth Ennis and Killian Plunkett warned us of the world that was coming.
Austin English looks forward to the future via his publishing and distro outfit, Domino Books, the conclusion of years of work on his next comic, and talks about why its time for readers to expand their definition of comics.
In these two conversations excerpted from Groth’s career spanning interview with Roz Chast, they discuss her experience at The New Yorker, then and now, and her feelings about the importance and limitations of draughtsmanship.
Michael’s back, and he’s going full Columbo this time around, to solve the Case of the Naked Caniff!
Artist, activist and ALS warrior Patrick Dean speaks with Eleanor Davis about what they learned from Donald Westlake, how he balanced the bad with the funny in his comic Eddie’s Week, and how he’s making work (including drawing with his eyes) despite his ALS.
