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“We Know This Will Drive Book Sales”: A Conversation about the EGL Awards
Alex Dueben speaks with two of the people behind the recently announced slate of Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards.
Body Music
Though Maroh returns to the themes of sex, love, and LGBTQ representation, her latest work is a very different kind of book from Blue is the Warmest Color — in some ways, it is a book that seems to be trying to be different, to break away.
Billy Burkert: Day Five
First day free.
Insight into the Meaning of the Universe: Catching Up with Jason Shiga
The Demon artist talks about his residency in France, the premise of The Box, and the importance of having Asian-American experiences in comic books.
Paper Girls: Book One
Those of us who stuck through six seasons of Lost –which Vaughan had his hands in– would like to know how long we’ll need to stick with Paper Girls before we start getting some questions resolved.
Billy Burkert: Day Four
Starting to seem real…
Infinite Content
It’s 2018. It’s a weird time in the history of our nation. It’s a weird time in my life. A lot of people are afraid of a lot of things. And here we are talking about Ninjak.
Billy Burkert: Day Three
Anticipating free time.
Showing by Doing: Marking Four Decades of NBM with Terry Nantier
The founder of NBM talks about four decades of comics publishing, the differences between the European and American markets, the business challenges of social and technological change, and much more.
Slasher
How do we portray violent behavior and the way it is formed in comics, whose entire existence for the last century or so has depended on violence as a crucial part of its storytelling language, and even in their more adventurous experiments of late, have run the portrayals of serial killers and lonely brutes so far into the ground they’ve formed their own artistic substratum?
Billy Burkert: Day Two
The resignation continues.
Zegas
Some frustrations are universal. Banging your head against a wall means banging your head against a wall, even if beyond that wall you’ll find various supernatural entities. These are the circumstances of Emily Zegas, 25, and her 30-year-old brother, Boston. They live together in their late parents’ house, with a sprawling metropolis not far away.… Read more »
Billy Burkert: Day One
What it’s like to quit your job.
The Feed Zone of the Bomb Cyclone
Friday may have brought some snow, but Olivier responded with that hot pink.
Sugar Town
The other day I asked a friend how it was possible to love more than one person. One of the differences between the person I used to be and the person I am now is that I didn’t used to know any polyamorous people – that I knew of, at least, which may say more… Read more »
La Grande Dame Annie Goetzinger (1951-2017)
The French artist Annie Goetzinger, who died on December 20 at the age of 66, could never remember a time when she wasn’t drawing.
