But this is what has pushed me into the arms of prose fiction: I am so tired of producing graphic novels. I’ll never leave comics. It’ll be more like a shared custody thing… but since I made the choice to split my time it’s made me a lot happier.
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer.
Noah returns, a doctor speaks, Nicholson finally gets it right, and official donuts are revealed.
My mental image of the American West has the texture of 1970s film grain seen in spaghetti westerns. I justify this instinctive deferral to technological contrivance by believing that the dirt and sand of the desert find a home in that brightly colored grit, but certainly there are some people a generation older who might… Read more »
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning.
Here is a great truth about our age of gender fluidity, queer visibility, and increasingly ductile sexual identities: regardless of our sexual self-identification, we are all the same. An observation so banal as to be ridiculous, perhaps, but considered not as a platitude, but as a reminder of the universality of the human heart’s interior,… Read more »
Time to gather up another round of webcomics…
An interview, a column, an excerpt, a review: it’s a big old honk honk of a day.
Igor Hofbauer’s stories niggle at the dark recesses of the psyche. They are visits implying there’s much more to face, panels awaiting uncovering, but we don’t want these scenes of extended hideous horror to be so easily explained or, for that matter, to come much closer. Most of his main characters are physically deformed in… Read more »
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown.
In this in-depth interview, Mort Walker talks about growing up during the Great Depression, serving in the military, developing risque versions of his characters for overseas publishers, founding a comics art museum housed in a concrete castle, raising 10 kids, and much more.
Mike Grell wrote a lot of issues of Green Arrow. But were any of them any good? Let Tegan take the wheel.
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
Today in news that you already knew, but had to wait for the proof that it wasn’t just the writing on the wall.
A collection of comics detailing cartoonist Elizabeth Beier’s coming of age, with a focus on her introduction to the complicated world of bisexual dating & romance.
I guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations?
It’s page 5 of Monograph, and Chris Ware is fretting! “To make a book of things that one likely already has would be a useless waste of paper, and a bummer. So I had to try to figure out a way to make a book that was (hopefully) still worth having by someone who (my… Read more »
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics.
The artist, whose tour of duty on Beetle Bailey was the longest run of any cartoonist in the history of the comics pages, died Jan. 27 of pneumonia
