Thanks to Koyama Press, we’re pleased to share this excerpt of Nathan Gelgud’s latest work, House In The Jungle. In it, a potent pineapple dealing hermit’s transcendental quest is disrupted by the encroaching townspeople he supplies. Then things get weird!
The great cartoonist and idiosyncratic historian Eddie Campbell discusses what he considers the misunderstood true origins of the comic strip.
Marc Sobel takes a long look back at Give Me Liberty, Frank Miler and Dave Gibbons exploration of fascism and heroics, to see if the book got anything accurate with its prediction of the future.
Liana Finck uncovers the true story behind her acclaimed comics memoir, Passing From Human, what it’s like to be Insta-famous, and her feminist awakening, which came mid-book.
Thanks to NBM, we’re pleased to share a look at the new edition of The Silent Invasion: Red Shadows, by Michael Cherkas & Larry Hancock.
A long look at the career of one of the most recognizable and beloved Batman artists of the modern age, Norm Breyfogle, who passed away on Monday, September 24th.
Back to The Inkwell, a now-forgotten postwar New York establishment that once catered to the cartooning elite, including Caniff, Soglow, Gross, Bushmiller, and many more.
Is it acceptable to travel to Santa Cruz and not visit T&C Surf Design? One family will take this challenge, in today’s final L. Nichols Family Vacation Saga.
Sean Witzke in conversation with writer Joe Casey and artist Ian MacEwan about the nitty gritty of career building, the processing of influence and their new comics collaboration, MCMLXXV.
While you gotta know when to hold ’em, you’re not going to make it very far if you don’t, wait for it, know when to fold them. L. Nichols: camping with the right philosophy.
A look back at The Inkwell, a now-forgotten postwar New York establishment that once catered to the cartooning elite, including Caniff, Soglow, Gross, Bushmiller, and many more.
This review by Christopher Brayshaw was originally published in The Comics Journal #187 (May 1996).
If you have to fly cross country with little kids for a wedding, the least the wedding can do is have the decency to take the place in Monterey, ya feel me?
An exclusive excerpt from Britt Wilson’s new Elsewhere graphic novel, Ghost Queen, courtesy of Koyama Press!
You may get a plane ride, but that doesn’t mean there is a free pass when puppets enter the picture. L. Nichols: we do what we can.
Frederick Aldama is an Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University where he is the founder and director of LASER, the Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment Research, and the founder and co-director of Humanities and Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute at The Ohio State University. Since receiving his doctorate from… Read more »
There is no more challenging roll of the dice than putting kids on a plane. L Nichols isn’t keeping score, but if he was: get that gold medal ready.
The author of Rules for Dating My Daughter and Troop 142 discusses Boogie Nights, Oor Wullie, Eleanor Davis, and more.
Ardo Omer spoke with Ming Doyle about one of DC’s more inventive licensed projects: a collection of Batman’s anatomy drawings of fellow DC characters, published by Insight Editions
From The Comics Journal #228 (November 2000) In 1994, Jason Lutes released his debut graphic novel, the Xeric-funded Jar of Fools, to unusual praise. Perhaps the strongest and most visible endorsement came from Scott McCloud, who called the book “an instant classic” in a promotional blurb. McCloud’s enthusiasm was generally echoed by the rest of… Read more »
An exclusive Conundrum Press excerpt from The Vagabond Valise, the first graphic novel from a founding father of the Quebec comix underground.
In this review from The Comics Journal #242 (April 2002), Ron Evry talks about Lutes’ artistic choices, the graphic novel format and the scope of the project.
At about the fifty percent mark of this review, Tegan mentions that this column is actually about Wolverine comics by the team of Goodwin, Byrne & Janson. Wait for it!
