Annie Mok catches up with cartoonist Kelsey Wroten, about their graphic novel Cannonball, the struggle between legible cartoons and artistic expression, and the lack of athletic style benchmarks in the creative arts.
While the big news in comics is here, of course, the real announcement rests right at the top, where Ryan goes knucklebone deep into his own personal development. Shirts and pants. Shirts and pants!
In advance of a major exhibition of his illustrations of the US Presidents, Drew Friedman sat down with Mark Newgarden to answer the burning questions: which of those dudes was the ugliest?
Tegan O’Neil takes a dip into the world of subscription based comic book reading, with the DC Universe. Can she resist the temptation to watch cancelled television shows and focus on back issues instead? It’s time for an economics lesson!
Qiana Whitted examines how Ebony Flowers use the social, historical, and economic politics of hair to chart the different phases of African American girlhood in her Drawn & Quarterly comics collection, Hot Comb.
Katie Skelly uncovers the beating heart of Kate Lacour’s Vivisectionary by sitting down with the creator behind a book that has been referred to as “neocomics” by some, “unsettling” by others, and “kind of goofy, kind of creepy” by its own creator.
Never start your weekend without Ryan Flanders and his links. Never! If you start your weekend without Ryan’s links oh no I will be so terribly upset. That was my soup! I threw that soup at the wall because you just didn’t care enough!
Cynthia Rose profiles Yann Kebbi, the prolific and violently creative artist behind Fondation Kebbi, Americanin & The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade, whose original illustrations can currently be seen in Paris at Galerie Martel.
The story of U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard A. Bauman, his collection of 41 years of Steve Canyon comic strips along with artwork by its creator Milton Caniff, and the marriage that made it all possible.
Rob Clough sits down Alabaster Pizzo, whose ongoing project Mimi & The Wolves just reached the halfway point. In this conversation, Pizzo reflects on decades spent living cheap, regretting nothing, and making comics.
It’s Friday, and Ryan Flanders has prepared you a fine, hearty dish of all the links that you shall require to survive another weekend in this fallen world. Perry Bible Fellowship and Brian Hitch: have returned!
In today’s conclusion to Luke Healy’s Diary, the other reason for his trip home emerges: an evening with Janelle Monae!
Today: the day that Luke Healy’s long search for vegetarian options at Irish restaurants finally reached a satisfactory end. And then one of his “friends” tries to ruin the moment?! Cartoonist Diary, tell the tale!
Cartoonist Ben Passmore met up with Dr. Ryan Holmberg and Ron Wimberly to talk about Yoshitoshi, at a recent exhibition of work by the influential Japanese artist.
In 2017, Andrew White took a look at Kevin Huizenga’s Ganges in a zine called All There Is. In advance of White and Huizenga’s soon to be published TCJ interview, we’re pleased to republish that zine digitally.
In today’s installment, Luke digs into his archives and finds memory lane slow going. After that? It’s time to watch movies with the fam, which is its own kind of roller coaster.
Another day, another meal made up of french fries. (Luke Healy calls ’em chips, but we all know what he means!) Then it’s off to the cemetery to feed the rabbits. His words!
Paul Tumey reflects back on the conclusion of a seven year project: Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny. In this conversation with Michael Tisserand, Tumey walks us through the history of American newspaper comics comedy..and to define the word “screwballist”!
You can’t go home again–hey, wait a second! Shouldn’t that be that you “shouldn’t”? Maybe this week’s Cartoonist Diary can square that circle. Take us to church, Luke Healy!
In this excerpt from TCJ #304, Hanselmann talks about Gretzkys, the relationship between autobiography and fiction, and selling stuffed animals.
Ryan Flanders is here, and with him are all the links you could require! East Coasters: make sure you’ve got your autograph books ready for this weekend–all your favorite celebrities are on the prowl!
Kim Jooha catches up with Johanna Maierski of Colorama, a small comics press out of Germany with a focus on quality, community and wildcard beauty.
I don’t remember when I met Bill Schelly, but it may have been as late as 2006, when he pitched the idea of a Joe Kubert biography to me. It may have been earlier—and we may have corresponded briefly in the 1970s, as two teen-age comics fans putting out fanzines—but if we did, it would’ve… Read more »
If you’re starting your Friday off with anything other than the Ryan Flanders Rundown, then you’re just asking for trouble. Nothing sheds those Thetans faster than ten pounds of comics links packed into a five pound bag–why, just ask my main man Bart Sears!
