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Milton Caniff always took sole credit, but who really inspired her?
Features
“Amazon Is the Global Warming of the American Economy”: A Conversation with Eric Reynolds on the ComiXology Originals Announcement
The Fantagraphics associate publisher explains how he thinks comiXology fits into Amazon’s plans to monopolize not just comics publishing, but retail as a whole.
Dean Miller: In (and Out) Like Flint
There are hundreds of unknown sob stories in comics. Creators routinely signed away the rights to their original concepts, had their work butchered by heavy-handed editors, and suffered as the comics industry weathered financial upheavals. And that’s just comic books. Newspaper strips are another thing.
Revisiting Dakota North
According to Keith Silva, we don’t talk enough about Dakota North–and he’s here to remedy that situation, with a look at the under-discussed ’80s miniseries by Martha Thomases and Tony Salmons that introduced the character.
Dermal Lift: Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X
Weapon X isn’t the only superhero comic to tear down its protagonist’s heroic facade or even to indict its readers for believing in that image – though it is one whose force and quality surpasses all but the top rank of stories to do so.
Ian Densford: Day Five
Ian goes into the woods, pal in tow, danger afoot: will our cartoonist make it safely to his destination?
Ian Densford: Day Four
The cartoonist’s diary continues with a break-time daydream.
Episode 31: Lauren Weinstein
The Normel Person and Goddess of Warcreator talks Aisha Franz, Gary Panter, Carol Tyler, and more.
Ian Densford: Day Three
We all get lost in your work, but sometimes your work is drawing a whole lot of dead bodies: it takes a toll!
“I Look at Every Story I Draw in a Different Way”: An Interview with Rubén Pellejero
Pellejero is one of Spain’s great comics artists (Historias de Barcelona, The Summer of Irreverence, Rain Wolf). Today he, along with writer Juan Díaz Canales, is making the new adventures of one of comics’ greatest characters, Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese.
Ian Densford: Day Two
This day in history.
Fall into Degradation
In this week’s column, an Arcades Project-style history of cartoonists and their relationships with editors, publishers, and so-called fans.
Ian Densford: Day One
Ian Densford is here, and he’s brought his love of Robert Stack with him, in the form of drawings of Robert Stack.
I’ll Assign This Treason Case to You
Tegan turns her eye to Steve Ditko, and his Shade the Changing Man series. Gather round: there’s learning to be had.
Fuck You, Death: Thoughts on Finishing My Friend’s Last Book
The cartoonist Anders Nilsen describes the experience and labor of helping to bring Geneviève Castrée’s final book, A Bubble, to publication.
Switching Gears: Annie Koyama Will Shutter Press in 2021 to Focus on Patronage
“There are no strings attached. Once I decide to work with an artist, as I have always done with the press, I put enough trust in them and their project not to interfere. They don’t need my creative help, they need money.”
“Expectations Are Right Next Door to Demands”: A David Brothers Profile
From blogger to critic, from California to Portland, from Image to Viz–David Brothers is a name you already know, or soon will. In this exclusive profile, Alec Berry unpacks a career whose trajectory is all its own.
“I’m Excited for People to Meet My Other Cartoon Children”: An Interview with Dana Simpson
I was an occasional reader of Ozy and Millie, the webcomic from Dana Simpson that ended in 2008. Simpson then landed a deal with Universal UClick to develop a new comic strip and what emerged was Phoebe and Her Unicorn. To call it one of the 21st Century’s best comic strips may make it sound… Read more »
“A Process Not a Product”: An Interview with Ronald Wimberly
The creator of Prince of Cats and Black History in Its Own Words talks about his new magazine, art school, animation, and Walt Disney.
Ellen Forney, Megan Kelso and Raina Telgemeier on Process
Raina Telgemeier, Megan Kelso and Ellen Forney discuss the period in between projects.
Excerpt: Kingdom/Order
In this exclusive excerpt from Reid Psaltis’ graphic novel Kingdom/Order, we ride shotgun with one man on his symbol-laden journey through the relationship between human and beast.
Sarah Horrocks: Day Five
Mourning, the daily struggle, the experiences of time and history: taking a look at the present and moving forward. Sarah’s got the story.
More Realistic than the Sane Guys?
In his first example of the “Event” comics, cartoonist and publisher Tom Kaczynski looks at Ted McKeever’s Eddy Current, from 1987.
Sarah Horrocks: Day Four
If you only read one comic featuring a concise critique of backseat coaching today, then you probably read this one: it’s Sarah Horrocks, Day Four!
