Juni Ba speaks with Tiffany Babb about discovering comics as a child in Senegal, what makes Sonic The Hedgehog perfect, the usefulness of Marvel Comics for learning a foreign language, and how all of that leads to his new book, Djeliya, from TKO Studios.
A selection of tributes to the late artist Jesse Hamm.
The summer continues, and its got enough comics news, reviews and interviews to come after you wherever you are–at home or abroad. Allow Clark to prepare your agenda, and then go forth: digitally, from wherever your body rests.
Examining the Austrian-born artist’s new-to-English graphic novel, along with some other works related by proximity, nationality, and a concern with sickness.
For the first time ever, we are presenting the unexpurgated version of a rare 1995 interview with Howard Cruse, captured in the glow of his newly-released graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. Please enjoy this journey back in time to a comics scene not entirely unlike today’s, in the company of a gay comics pioneer.
They say this world doesn’t make sense until you put your hands on it: but if you’re trying to make sense of the world of comics, you just need to put the part of your hands that are called fingers onto the part of technology that goes click: it’s link time, pal!
The “joke” is the sickly massive scope of human conflict, as Bob reads Tim Fielder’s new graphic novel Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale and Elsa Morante’s 1974 bestseller History: A Novel.
Thanks to A Wave Blue World, we’re pleased to share “Voyages” from their upcoming anthology, Embodied.
Chatting with the authors of a new rendition of André Franquin‘s famous critter, now available in English.
Andrew Farago–and a huge number of West Coast friends and peers–looks back at the life and career of cartoonist Jesse Hamm, who passed away suddenly in May.
In today’s conclusion of Max Huffman’s Diary, he turns his pen to the recesses of his memory, delivers a classic “footprints” gag, and touches upon current affairs in a universal fashion. It’s what we in the comics business call a “perfect landing”. Get in here, buddy!
Every week, the world asks so much: how can one keep up with the news, reviews and points-of-view that show up in comics every single week? You can turn to Clark, that’s what you can do. And within the work of his hands and the links of his soul, you might find a bit of peace. Cheer up and click through, friend!
“There’s something in them trees”, Billy once said. Which Billy? And how many trees are there at the beach, anyway? Answers: they await you, here on the precipice of clicking through to Day Four of Max Huffman’s Cartoonist’s Diary!
Mark catches up with Glenn Head, whose recent memoir Chartwell Manor touches upon trauma, Satan, sex and the other horrors of youth–with a healthy dose of the kind of honesty found in the underground comics that lit his creative fire.
Bob looks back at the life and career of M. Thomas Inge, his friend, editor, and collaborator, and reflects on the groundbreaking work that Inge did in the world of comics scholarship.
Max and his crew have made it to the beach–but so has a helicopter. What’s going on? And what’s going on with the supply situation? There’s only one way to find out!
Charles Hatfield remembers one of the giants of the academic study of comics – M. Thomas Inge (1936-2021), author of Comics as Culture, and a crucial guiding force for generations of scholars.
When you hear it wrong, but it makes it oh so right: that’s what the pizza guys call “amore”. It’s day two for Max, and he’s heading to the beach!
Max Huffman launches this week’s diary by sitting down and experiencing an emotional launch of his own: the kind that only cartooning can provide, without lasting physical repercussions!
Wow, that’s a lot of links! Mom! Dad! Check out these links! He’s done it again!
Revisiting the Frank Miller/Lynn Varley epic of the early ’80s as a story of fanboy dreams – embraced, defied, and deified.
Paul Tumey presents the debut installment of Zineth, a new series surveying current developments in small press and self-published comics! First off, Paul checks in with a wide variety of cartoonists and distributors to see what’s new during the pandemic… and it’s a lot.
Gareth Brookes may be responsible for the first comic about historical medieval plagues that was inspired by a real life Drake related Tik Tok craze, and if he’s not, he’s certainly responsible for the first one to be made utilizing pyrography. Joe Decie catches up with the cartoonist about why Brookes keeps attacking the page…and whether he can even stop himself at this point.
We look back at the life and career of comics writer, fan, journalist, interviewer, historian & publisher, David Anthony Kraft.
