THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/10/17 — Father Stretch My Hands)
Jog’s on vacation, but the comics keep coming.
Features
“Supreme Optimism in the Face of Actual Reality”: An Interview with Sammy Harkham
Talking to the Crickets creator and Kramer’s Ergot editor about his life, his comics, horror, film, family, Australia, the art of editing, and much more.
“A Shared Universe, with the Camera Slowly Panning Outwards”: An Interview with Eric Kostiuk Williams
Talking to the Eisner- and Doug Wright Award-nominated creator of Hungry Bottom Comics.
Magazine Gag Cartoons, Michelle Urry, and Cartooning for Playboy
A rare conversation with the longtime cartoon editor of Playboy.
He Never Understood Why I Was Drawing Fred Mertz
Drew Friedman’s Heroes of the Comics exhibition is opening Thursday, May 4th at 6 pm at the Society of Illustrators.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/3/17 – Gesticulating Toward Authority)
Finally, comics that document my life.
An Interview with David Wiesner
The award-winning children’s book illustrator on publishing his first graphic novel.
Risograph Workbook 5
Continuing my series on the pioneers of risograph printing with a conversation with John Pham.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/26/17 – Here be lions.)
A most unusual import, among other fresh selections.
Lichtenstein and the Art of Letters
Roy Lichtenstein is one of the twentieth-century’s most important artists. He’s far from one of its best letterers.
A Talk with Gabrielle Bell
Annie Mok interviews Gabrielle Bell about diaries, metacognition, and more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/19/17 – Glyph Reader International)
Scenes from the apocalypse craze! Ready your soul for deliverance unto the high spire of GLOBAL FUNNIES.
Talking to Pénélope Bagieu
The French cartoonist talks Mama Cass, her new graphic novel, and the Smurfette Syndrome.
Curating the Metrograph Bookstore
On the occasion of this film My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea opening at the Metrograph in New York, Dash Shaw curated a selection of DVDs and publications for the theater’s store. Here he explains what and why.
“I’m an Outsider Person”: The Carel Moiseiwitsch Interview
Moiseiwitsch drew dangerous comics. Prominently featuring murderous cops, third-world refugees, and war crimes hopscotching their way to our front door, her works were dangerous because they gave us the raw truth, seemingly drawn in dense black sauce.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/12/17 – St. Deals)
If you buy 40 comics for a dollar, that’s still a lot of money!
The Vanessa Davis Interview
On the occasion of being awarded the Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize for humor writing, Vanessa Davis spoke with Naomi Fry about autobiography, drawing, and management.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/5/17 – Warmer)
I almost don’t need a coat, but I’ve put on weight.
Gluyas Williams: Master of Line and Shape and Subject
A life of the master of the clear line.
An Interview with Joe Ollmann
The author of The Abominable Mr. Seabrook talks cannibalism, tree farms, and Canada.
Episode 18: Maggie Umber
On the eighteenth episode of Comic Book Decalogue, Maggie Umber (Time Capsule, Sound of Snow Falling) discusses Ron Wimberly, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, and the comics tastes of Guillermo del Toro.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/29/17 – Goodbye, Sweetheart)
Above we see my favorite bit of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending Is Lying – published in French in 2007 and entirely re-lettered by the artist herself for the 2017 English edition. Goblet also collaborated on the translation itself, with Sophie Yanow; it’s a work that benefits from as much of the artist’s presence as possible. Immediately,… Read more »
I Hope No One See Me In Here
Mankoff, etc.
