“I Never Thought of Myself as a Cartoonist”: A Glen Baxter Interview
Baxter has been creating strange, perplexing, delightful pieces that blur (and possibly erase) the lines between art and comics since the 1970s.
Features
Meeting Mr. Munch
Steffen Kverneland on graphic biography and The Scream
Episode 12: Anna Bongiovanni
Discussing Manic Pixie Nightmare Girls!, Bread and Wine, Kiki Smith, and so much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/20/16 – Return to Dream Land)
Hope to see you in San Diego! I mean, sometime in the future. I’m not going this week, fuck that.
The Webtoon: A New Form for Graphic Narrative
A look at the differences between print comics and Korean webcomics, or webtoons, and the effects and implications that those differences generate in terms of the aesthetics of webcomics as a new medium.
Geneviève Castrée: 1981-2016
The Canadian cartoonist, musician, and multimedia artist died Saturday, July 9, at the age of thirty-five.
Remembering Geneviève Castrée
Tributes to Geneviève Castrée by Anders Nilsen and Diane Obomsawin.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/13/16 – Invisible Monsters)
The whole world is watching.
Connecticut Cartoonists #6: More Quality Folks
This time our crew consists of Klaus Nordling, Harry Sahle, Tony DiPreta and, in Connecticut for a brief stay, Alex Kotzky.
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and Editorial Cartooning
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, discussed recently the implications for her profession of the social media reactions to the notorious “Ted Cruz monkey children” cartoon she drew last December.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/6/16 – Tiny New Bites)
Just a few morsels for us to chew.
“I Want Everything to Mean Something”: A Conversation with MariNaomi
Talking to the Turning Japanese creator about storytelling, promotion, traveling to Japan, and an atheist’s take on spirituality.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/29/16 – Carnivalesque)
The no-liberation zone.
Episode 11: Dean Haspiel
The cartoonist behind The Quitter and Beef with Tomato talks the dual impacts of Jack Kirby and Prince, as well as his new serial, The Red Hook.
Connecticut Cartoonists #5: The Philosopher of Okefenokee Swamp
Walt Kelly, George Ward, Pogo, and politics.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/22/16 – Mighty No. ’98)
Dedicated to you. Our future pioneers…
“I Love Second Acts in Comics”: An Interview with Jason Shiga
The creator of Fleep, Bookhunter, and Demon talks webcomics, day jobs, the pleasures of solving puzzles, and competing with Craig Thompson.
An Interview with Michael Maslin
Talking to the cartoonist and author about The New Yorker, society, and Peter Arno.
A Retrofit Comics Survey
Taking stock of a wide, stylistically various range of comics, released over the past three years by the imprint run by Box Brown and Big Planet Comics.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/15/16 – Machine Shop)
This time, I shall preserve the margins of the front page with mechanical precision.
Episode 10: Lane Milburn
Milburn (Twelve Gems) discusses halting his Vice strip Envoy, a ‘lazy river’ theory of comics-making, the Closed Caption Comics group, and polarizing creators from R. Crumb to Frank Miller.
Outcault, Goddard, the Comics, and the Yellow Kid
How They Unwittingly Conspired To Bring a New Mass Medium into Popular Culture.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/8/16 – Verdammtendämmerung)
As above, so below: Hellboy is all about love.
An Interview with Chester Brown
Two masters of the comics medium talk sex, comics, religion, and critics.
