Since 2017, Charles Glaubitz has been exploring cosmic/comic symbols through his signature series, Starseeds. Mark Peters sits down with the artist to discuss method and metaphor.
Roaring in like a column of bats in the desert, it’s a storm of news!
Speaking of the halcyon days of the antediluvian internet, the Mindless Ones blog began in 2008. If you’d asked me, I would have bet the site was a little older, but that’s due to my own faulty memory as much as anything else. Point of fact, although the comics blogosphere was a brief moment in… Read more »
Flashback to 2001, as we catch a contemporaneous newspaper reaction to the end of Happy Mania, the breakthrough series of women’s manga superstar Anno Moyoko. Writer Miyamoto Hirohito is translated here by Jon Holt and Saki Hirozane.
A new project by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows brings with it a certain set of expectations. This is the team that brought us Crossed, and more recently the excellent Punisher: Soviet. Appropriately, The Ribbon Queen, a miniseries from AWA, is that now-rare thing: a Garth Ennis horror comic. There have been several besides Crossed,… Read more »
We never learn whose corpse it was. There is a rotting body without a past, no present condition beyond its state of decay. This is not a person. This is a location. Visiting the corpse is an escape for three teenagers: Haruna, an anxious but nominally popular girl frustrated by her obsessive sex-ravenous boyfriend; Yamada,… Read more »
In case you were thinking that maybe the edge of a river is just the number one place where teenagers, across all cultures, find dead bodies, Kyoko Okazaki has written “I love Keanu” as a bit of locker graffiti in chapter one, signaling that she, the author of this Japanese manga from 1993-94, is familiar… Read more »
I don’t know who James Collier is apart from being the creative mind behind The Lonesome Shepherd, but he seems to have learned from the best. His book is a beautiful thing, light in the hands and easy on the mind. It is a meditation, a koan in comic form that asks: “What is a… Read more »
A rising star in contemporary kids’ comics and ‘hybrid’ comics/prose novels for middle grade audiences, multi-award-winning cartoonist Remy Lai discusses the mythology behind her latest release.
At the sound of the gun, you’re gonna run like the bullet’s behind you.
Ah, me! Remember when the world was young, and suffused with potential? Recall, if you will, the era of the early Internet. Cast your minds back to the Before – that all-too-brief epoch when things weren’t sour. The early days of the public Internet was an era defined by the recognition, if not always the… Read more »
The movie adaptation of Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings is in theaters now, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen has an interview with the screenwriter: Mr. Adrian Tomine.
Imagine that horsehead beam on an oil well that you always see in movies, the up and down motion of that colossal pump. Now, imagine that pump falling, like a spear thrown by a god, and crushing the skull of a person right below it. This is the first splatter scene in an unexpectedly brilliant… Read more »
Ryan C. explores a standout contemporary horror comics anthology: artist/editor/publisher Harry Nordlinger’s Vacuum Decay.
In Carlos Gonzalez’s “Star Power” (2014), included in Floating World Comics’ recent collection of Gonzalez’s shorter works, Wasp Video Roadhouse, an aging singer sits in a small room, recording her memoirs on tape. She opens with her first moment of inspiration, when she was just a kid watching a different aging singer, far past her… Read more »
Picking up after nearly 20 years, Chris Mautner reunites with a favorite interview subject: artist and biologist Jay Hosler, whose all-ages science-based comics now seek to navigate a very different, ostensibly more hospitable, yet ever-unpredictable terrain.
I am rubber, you are glue; bounce off me, and stick to NEWS.
Once again, William Schwartz takes a look at contemporary webtoons – this time, Jang E’s popular tale of street-level, politically-aware superheroes, The Uncanny Counter.
My first exposure to Usagi Yojimbo was through the medium of television, via the estimable rabbit’s appearances on the third season of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television show, at the (fuzzy) tail end of 1989. In truth, I was already moving past active engagement with the Turtles at that point. Put simply, I… Read more »
“Science fiction is not ‘about the future.’ Science fiction is in dialogue with the present… a significant distortion of the present that sets up a rich and complex dialogue with the reader’s here and now.” – Samuel R. Delany, Starboard Wine, 1984 Social Fiction collects a sequence of three dystopian graphic novellas which imagine totalitarian… Read more »
Canadian arts and culture writer Vincent Cherniak presents a free-form appreciation of the latest release from veteran cartoonist Seth, with special appearances by critic Dominick Grace and cartoonist Charles Jaffe.
On the back cover of Murky World—a hardcover collection of a serial that ran first in b&w through several issues of Dark Horse Presents in 2011, and then was hugely expanded in color through several more issues of the latter-day revival of Heavy Metal—some of the biggest names in comics give compliments to the story’s… Read more »
Hagai sits down with one of the quintessential 2000 AD artists: Arthur Ranson, whose body of work stretches back to the early 1970s, and continues to expand online today.
Standing before the wicked team of horses, saying “I will tame you.”
