THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/24/17 – The Philadelphia JNCOs)
Just trying to be fashionable over here.
Features
Risograph Workbook 6
Panayiotis Terzis on riso printing – the hope of the future? Perhaps.
Comics Vs. Hitler: An Interview with Mark Fertig
Talking to the pop culture scholar and author of Take That, Adolf! about the anti-Hitler comics of the WWII era.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/17/17 – I Feel So Damn Good I’ll Be Glad When I Got the Blues)
I’m back, and I’m dozing.
The 2017 Doug Wright Award Winners
Rebecca Roher, Steve Wolfhard, Henriette Valium make it a year of first-time winners at 2017 Doug Wright Awards.
Talking TCAF with Christopher Butcher
Talking to the festival’s founder about its origins, its future, and the ins and outs of running a comics show.
Episode 19: Ben Sears
Ben Sears (Night Air, Volcano Trash) talks John Romita Jr. and Jacques Tati. Plus, the ultimate gag-strip faux pas!
“Supreme Optimism in the Face of Actual Reality”: An Interview with Sammy Harkham (Part II)
Kramers Ergot 9, Crickets 6, and much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/10/17 — Father Stretch My Hands)
Jog’s on vacation, but the comics keep coming.
“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!
