When You’re Lonely, You Contemplate Yourself
Bob takes a look at Tomine’s latest, and proposes an alternate title.
Features
“I’ve Got Decades Worth Of Suppressed Emotions”: An Interview with Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine talks about parenting and autobiography and how they informed his most recent comic, The Loneliness of The Long Distance Cartoonist with Hillary Brown.
Everyone’s Entitled To One Good Scare – This Week’s Links
Clark is here to close out the week with all the comics news, interviews and reviews that gets published the week before, you know, the week that is coming up. Good luck everybody!
“It Is Rare For Them Not To All Run Together In My Mind, Assuming I Recall Them At All”: The Stuart Immonen Comics Journal Interview
An expansive conversation with Stuart Immonen, whose artistic output reflects his interests: diverse, dynamic and curious. Here, he talks with Alex Dueben about his self-published work (labeled “too serious” by the biter class) and what the “Marvel method” looks like these days. Reminder: he’s not retired!
Excerpt: The American Mainstream
Matt Seneca cradles some longbox finds from the early 60s in his ongoing search for the quintessential “mainstream” comic in this exclusive excerpt.
Richard Allen Lupoff: Among the Memories
Another friend shares their memories of early fanzine pioneer, publisher and writer Dick Lupoff.
“If People Offer Themselves For Me To Sharpen My Teeth On, I Think They Get What’s Coming To Them”: A Conversation with Julia Gfrörer
Julia Gfrörer and Gretchen Felker-Martin discuss the intersection of horror and sex in the pages of Vision, her most recent comic, the most useful methods for dealing with losers online, and the value of an active fantasy life.
Richard Lupoff: A Remembrance
Writer Richard Lupoff, one of the earliest catalysts of comics fandom, was among the first wave of fans to take comics seriously and who went on to write essays and critiques of comics, died Oct. 22 at the age of 85. In this remembrance, his friend Ted White talks about their shared history.
Another Fine Mess – This Week’s Links
You can’t stop the news, even if you try really, really hard, even if it is bad for you and you ask for help. So why not focus on the part of the news wherein you can have dominion: the comics news? Get started here, with all the links you’ll ever need!
American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason
Bob takes a look at the story behind the making (and breaking) of a Golden Age publisher, as told in a recent book on Lev Gleason.
“We Own The Means Of Production”: A Conversation With Radix Media
Ian Thomas speaks with Sarah Lopez, Lantz Arroyo & Meher Manda about Radix Media, the Brooklyn-based, worker-owned printshop and publisher as they expand their output to include graphic novels, and explain how to make art without hewing to traditional capitalist business models.
Pulp 716 Coffee & Comics
Keith Silva catches up with Pulp 716 about how the pandemic has changed–and in some cases improved–sales at their two locations, how they deal with people new to comics, and how to best make money off your haters.
Quino: 1932 – 2020
Juan Manuel Domínguez looks back at the influential career of Argentinian cartoonist legend Quino, who passed away in September.
Excerpt: Victory Point
Check out an 9 page excerpt from Owen Pomery’s Victory Point, a new graphic novel from Avery Hill Publishing.
Well, We’re Back In The Car Again – This Week’s Links
While the world continues its inexorable slide, comics keeps doing its version of violins on the Titanic. No, no one is interested in the “real story” of what happened back then: we’re here for Clark to tell us about all the reviews, news and interviews from the past week, pal!
True Belief in Stan Lee
The latest Stan Lee book is bad, that’s no surprise. But how bad is it? Helen Chazan is here to make the case that it might be the worst one yet.
Perspective and Time in Meredith Gran’s Octopus Pie
Justin Harrison takes a look at how Meredith Gran’s webcomic Octopus Pie used space and panel layout in a way unique to the scroll to deliver narrative and thematic impact.
The Many Worlds of Kevin Mutch
Jeffery catches up with Kevin Mutch’s, whose recent graphic novel Rough Pearl is currently preparing longtime Mutch readers for even more, via his 400-odd page webcomic Moon Prince.
Better Than A Kick In The Shins – This Week’s Links
As we roll into another weekend, Clark’s here with all the links to the world of comics: their reviews, their interviews, their announcements of transmedia intellectual property development and how this benefits people financially and is therefore a moral good that you cannot rankle at, no matter how distasteful you find its participants. Also: super-heroes!
Malleable Madness: Plastic Man from Jack Cole to Kyle Baker
Tom Shapira takes a fond look at the only non-Jack Cole Plastic Man comics anybody ever mentions: the Kyle Baker run from 2004.
Alterations & Alloys: CF at Anthology
Matt’s here to report back on the welcome return of the massively influential (but still under-discussed) CF, whose latest work from Anthology shows an artist still operating at full power.
“Providence Was Really Exhausting. Finishing It Felt Like Finishing College”: An Interview With Jacen Burrows
The artist behind Crossed, Punisher: Soviet and Providence speaks with Alex about how he ended up responsible for some of the most diabolically unsettling images of the last decade, and what it’s like to go from Alan Moore to Garth Ennis.
Before They Were Funnies: Pictures and Stories in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
The history of comics has to have a starting line, assuming you’re not one of those people who brings “cave drawing” to the party. Dirk Vanderbeke is here to make the case for going medieval.
In The House Of Flies – This Week’s Links
Will there ever be news again? Oh buster: of course there will be! Why, here’s a whole week’s worth of it to sink your teeth into, and it’s all about comics, comic books, and things that are comics but other people call “properties” or “content”, while blood pours out of their eyes! Click away!
