Welcome to the last few days of January. Today we bring you R.C. Harvey on Martha Orr, and the connection between Apple Mary and Mary Worth.
Frank Santoro's going on tour, and is drawing the comics to prove it. (Plus, a bonus autobiographical strip at the end.)
And Matthias Wivel is reporting from Angoulême for us. You can read his thoughts on the Art Spiegelman retrospective here, and on a comics art exhibit Spiegelman curated (and that Matthias believes to be one of the best of its kind he's ever seen) here. And there's more on the way.
Award winners at the festival have been announced, including Guy Delisle, Jim Woodring, and Jean-Claude Denis.
Speaking of Matthias, if you're at interested in the ongoing debate about best practices in archival comics reproduction, you'll want to see the comments thread spawned by his recent review of Carl Barks. Gary Groth, Kim Thompson, R. Fiore, Jeet Heer, Michael Grabowski, and Domingos Isabelhino all make appearances, among others.
