Gag Cartoons with Naked People: Abner Dean’s What Am I Doing Here?
Revisiting the “Brave Nude World” of philosopher, psychologist, psychiatrist, anthropologist, and cartoonist Abner Dean.
Features
Getting Material: A Short Interview with Ben Katchor
Comics, unions, and process with the author of Cheap Novelties.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/19/16 – One Acronym Behind)
A vision of a finer Direct Market, filled with odd stapled objects and tricky continuing entertainments.
Joost Swarte: Scratching The Surface
Dutch comics legend Joost Swarte is launching his first magazine in over 40 years at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Unsung Al Smith, Record-Holding Unknown Cartoonist
Smith, like Jones, is a name so plentiful in English-speaking countries that it achieves virtual invisibility and thereby anonymity. And the only Al Smith who ever broke free of the amorphous mob of Smiths is the one that was a picturesque governor of New York: he attracted enough notice that he was able to run… Read more »
A Conversation with Dame Darcy
The Queen of Gothic Lolita speaks to Ron Rege about her childhood, the 90s, and the Meat Cake Bible.
“And It Lasted Forever”: An Interview with Tom Spurgeon
The editor of The Comics Reporter and festival director of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus talks about this weekend’s CXC and this fall’s publication of We Told You So, the Fantagraphics oral history he helped to compile.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/12/16 – Sun Blind)
A gleaming spread of pretty damn unique picks, seated and waiting.
The Only Sensible Response
On Robusto!!!, a collection of Serbian comics about war, black markets, and debauchery, plus an interview with the man behind it.
Episode 14: Anders Nilsen
Nilsen (the upcoming A Walk in Eden) discusses Chester Brown, Daniel Higgs, and the art of the live comic reading. Poetry may be useless but this podcast is very good!
Here Lies the Heart: In Memorium, Jacques Noël
Cynthia Rose on the man behind the monumental place for books, Un Regard Moderne.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (10/5/16 – October Twitter Handle)
Two past favorites join a rising rank of expense.
He Walked the Line: Thierry “Ted” Benoit (1947-2016)
The passing of a master of ligne claire.
Dash Shaw: Day Five
At the Fantastic Fest.
New and Old: SPX 2016
How the Small Press Expo has changed—and how it’s stayed the same.
Dash Shaw: Day Four
Premiering a movie at Fantastic Fest in Austin.
Dash Shaw: Day Three
Learning about scripting and storyboarding.
Dash Shaw: Day Two
Cosplay and Eric Rohmer.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/28/16 – Get Ready to Despair)
Who the hell will buy all of these? By “these” I mean by deepest emotions.
Dash Shaw: Day One
Alternating between projects.
“My Way of Witnessing”: Warren Craghead on Donald Trump
What it’s like to draw the same man, again and again, day after day.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/21/16 – Star Maps)
Less pictures than usual in here.
Alex Raymond: Becoming a Cartoonist
An encyclopedic look at the master of fantasy and romance.
Wren McDonald: Not a Cartoonist’s Diary
In advance of SPX, Wren McDonald imagines creating a TCJ Cartoonist’s Diary.
