Noah Van Sciver: Day Five
October country.
Features
CXC 2015 Reports
Frank and John Kelly report from the first Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, “easily the best comics show.”
Noah Van Sciver: Day Four
Hey hey hey
Noah Van Sciver: Day Three
Lunar eclipse in Vermont
The Dennis Eichhorn Interview
In this 1993 interview, Eichhorn talks about matching artists to his writing, Bukowski, and Harvey Pekar.
Noah Van Sciver: Day Two
Donuts and drawing.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/14/15 – Stuff)
New Stuff, Old Stuff.
Dennis P. Eichhorn, 1945–2015
The pioneering Real Stuff writer led a truly eccentric life. While many autobiographical writers tend to focus on day-to-day trivialities, Eichhorn’s stories were loaded with sex, drugs, and a whole lot of violence.
Dennis P. Eichhorn Tributes
Remembrances from Noah Van Sciver, Shary Flenniken, Art Chantry, Mary Fleener, Pat Moriarty, and other collaborators.
Noah Van Sciver: Day One
Life as a fellow at the Center of Cartoon Studies.
Episode 4: Ed Luce, 2DCloud
Talking to the creator of Wuvable Oaf, and the team behind publisher 2D Cloud.
A Chat About Mould Map 4
Talking Euro with editors Hugh Frost and Leon Sadler.
SPX 2015 Report: Horrocks and Cornellà
Guest columnist John Kelly writes about two international guests at this year’s SPX: New Zealand’s Dylan Horrocks and Spain’s Joan Cornellà
“Every comic is the last one”: Jonathan Chandler Interview
Hayley Campbell catches up with “Britain’s most isolated cartoonist”, Jon Chandler. Movies are discussed, the specific pen and ink recommendations of Sammy Harkham are touched upon, and complaints regarding nudity are registered.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/7/15 – Way Behind the Times)
Lateness can’t stop money.
Jack Kirby at Cal State Northridge
Assembling and mounting the first serious institutional retrospective exhibition in America examining the art of Jack Kirby is a task fraught with contradictions.
Ted Rall vs the Los Angeles Times
A look at the varying accounts surrounding the Los Angeles Times’ firing of Ted Rall, and whether the LAPD told the newspaper to do it.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/30/15 – It Takes All Kinds)
One hell of a lot of comics this week. Just stay indoors.
Recent Reading
My recent reading — making my way through the piles. We’ve got your Koch, Benjamin, Davidson, Marra, Chandler, Pratt, Toth, Lagon, etc.
Funny Angry: An Interview with Jane Mai
Jane Mai’s See You Next Tuesday is a raucous bunch of short comics and scraps. This third book in what appears to be a loose trilogy is lighter and funnier, but allows itself to go deeper and darker as a result.
Restoring a Lost Psychedelic Anime Classic: An Interview with the Team Reintroducing Belladonna of Sadness
This 1973 film from Osamu Tezuka’s production studio was a commercial failure and remained unseen by wider audiences for years after its initial release.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/23/15 – Ideal Results)
The classics continue, because I let them.
Pushing the Limits: Comics and Creators That Stretch the Form
Comics as a self-aware form.
