A Trumped Up Tour
R. Sikoryak hit the road to promote his book. Is the road going to hit back?
Features
Fear of a Black Panther
In 2010, 36 years after its release, the story “Panther’s Rage” was collected and reprinted for the first time. David Brothers and Tucker Stone took it all in.
“A Total Space:” The Antoine Cossé Interview
Cartoonist Antoine Cossé discusses his recent releases, drawing driving, communication and how to make a “shared universe” interesting.
Excerpt: Good News Bible
An excerpt of the politically charged, hallucinatory, Jack Kirby-infused punk cartoons that Shaky Kane brought to Deadline magazine decades ago.
“I Never Felt Like I Had A Style”: An Interview with Charles Forsman
There’s a part of me that wants to constantly relive that because when you’re a teenager your emotions are so raw. You think you have everything figured out, but you’re also so lost and frustrated. I just find it fascinating, and I’m trying to organize that time of my life on paper.
“That’s Just What My Life Looks Like”: A Tommi Parrish Interview
Upon the release of The Lie and How We Told It, Tommi Parrish talks about bookmaking, working at Outback Steakhouse, and the Australian comics scene.
“I’m Very Low-Key About It”: Katie Skelly And Alex de Campi
But this is what has pushed me into the arms of prose fiction: I am so tired of producing graphic novels. I’ll never leave comics. It’ll be more like a shared custody thing… but since I made the choice to split my time it’s made me a lot happier.
Excerpt: Ethics In The Gutter
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer.
“Immediate Metacognitive Dispersal”: An Interview with Kate Polak
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning.
Comics Dragnet 2
Time to gather up another round of webcomics…
Excerpt: Is This Guy For Real?
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown.
The Mort Walker Interview
In this in-depth interview, Mort Walker talks about growing up during the Great Depression, serving in the military, developing risque versions of his characters for overseas publishers, founding a comics art museum housed in a concrete castle, raising 10 kids, and much more.
Jerk City, USA
Mike Grell wrote a lot of issues of Green Arrow. But were any of them any good? Let Tegan take the wheel.
Smokestack Foo-mania: The Life and Notary Sojac of Bill Holman
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
“I Watch For Patterns”: An Interview with Aleš Kot
I guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations?
Where I’m Coming From (Part 1)
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics.
Mort Walker Passes Away at 94
The artist, whose tour of duty on Beetle Bailey was the longest run of any cartoonist in the history of the comics pages, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia
Tom McHenry: Day Five
Getting it together for the office party, facing the Wallace Shawn challenge: it’s been one hell of a week.
Mark Campos, 1962-2018: Seattle’s Unsung Comics Master Remembered
A tribute to the Seattle cartoonist’s life and work, with remembrances from friends and fellow cartoonists.
Tom McHenry: Day Four
Taking on the frustration of others, doing the bare minimum when dinner rolls around. What’s that? “The Libyans betrayed our cause!”
Small Worlds: An Interview With Matthew Pettit
It’s like what I was saying: when you create a story, you have to create that world. I was interested in not doing that again and using something I already knew, so I could jump right in.
Tom McHenry: Day Three
Bikes, giving cats medicine, and drinking in those late night conversations about the functions of emotion: welcome to the TenderDome.
An Upbringing That Was Very Much Out of the Ordinary: An Interview with Cullen Murphy
The former writer of Prince Valiant, and son of artist John Cullen Murphy, talks about growing up in Connecticut, surrounded by many of the most successful cartoonists of the Twentieth Century.
