Shine a Light
Reporting harassment at a comics show.
Reporting harassment at a comics show.
Thi Bui talks about the political forces and cartooning influences that she tapped into while creating her “touching memoir The Best We Could Do.
What makes Cartoon Crossroads Columbus work.
The Spinning creator talks about memoir, her relationship with figure skating, the importance of representation, and Studio Ghibli.
Talking to Iasmin Omar Ata’s sbout their debut graphic novel Mis(h)adra, adapted from their webcomic of the same name.
Discussing comics and power with the author of Sex Fantasy.
A conversation with the wife-and-husband team behind Poppies in Iraq, a memoir of Findakly’s childhood as an Orthodox Christian in Iraq.
The creator of Someone Please Have Sex with Me talks Phoebe Gloeckner, Truth Zone, Chewing Gum, and more.
The meta-strips within 1950s and ’60s Dick Tracy.
Is Yokoyama plugged into portability as well? Clearly he is into mobile eyes and mobile ears. How about mobile devices and mobile books, and the techniques of miniaturization, content formatting, and sensorial coordination that they require? What follows is a meandering stab at an answer.
In this 1979 interview, Len Wein talks about working for Marvel and DC, what it means for storytelling when fans instead of professional writers take over; balancing commercial considerations with creative ones; the origins of Swamp Thing; the thought process behind superhero team-ups like X-Men and The Defenders’ how he writes Batman, the Hulk, Spider-Man, Superman, and much more.
Researching and compiling one of the very best under-recognized cartoonists.
The life of the prolific and influential comics writer and editor, who co-created Wolverine and Swamp Thing.
Reflections on a comics critic, publisher and retailer, along with an unpublished interview.
Strictly a consumer guide.
Late in life, Jack Kirby returned to his youth. After a long, distinguished career he drew his first unequivocally autobiographical story, “Street Code”, in 1983.
We are at peak reprint. Because of this, the only worthwhile publishing projects reissuing old comic strips or books need to be either uncovering hidden gems and critical missing links to bygone eras, or repackaging material in a way that makes it more historically relevant or capital-I “Important.” Craig Yoe does neither. The hardcovers discharged… Read more »
…And of Other Fictional and Nonfictional “Characters” at The New Yorker
This is the final installment of THIS WEEK IN COMICS!
Looking at how Yokoyama plays with the fact that visual experience in comics is often deeply tied to the ear and, through the ear, the human voice.
The influential Mexican cartoonist Rius (Eduardo del Rio) passed away on August 8, 2017. In this 1990 interview, he talks about the end of the Cold War, ideology, and the then-contemporary international comics scene.
Dead, irrelevant and forgotten… but enough about me.