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Wet Earth
Lala Albert’s new book from Sonatina, with drawings far more accomplished than anything Albert has done before.
Please Buy A Different Moisturizer
Today at The Journal, we’ve got two buckets of sauce for you. First, dip yourself into a pool an interview with cartoonist Tim Lane, who is out there holding the line for single issue comic books for more than just nostalgic reasons. The second bucket is to come!
America as Haunted House: An Interview with Tim Lane
“I don’t think traditional comics will survive. But I’m trying one last gasp now before they go under completely.”
Excerpt: Happy Hour In America
Thanks to Tim Lane himself, we’re happy to present this excerpt of Happy Hour In America.
Episode 25: Emil Ferris
Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters) talks superheroes and dada, politics and accessibility, Will Eisner, Ted Leo, and more.
Kylie Minogue Fans Don’t
Sleep well, you sons of New Hampshire, you daughters of Slaughter Beach.
“I Want a Blank Area to Work With”: Connor Willumsen on Anti-Gone
A meeting of the minds between the creator of Anti-Gone, one of the most striking and intriguing books of the year, and the groundbreaking cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw.
Old Ground
Noel Freibert’s Old Ground has a premise that puts it somewhere between a B-horror film and a Pixar release. Years of neglect have turned the Old Maple Grove cemetery into a home for a cast of odd characters: Otto, a frog; White Foot, a dog; and Silver Spoon and Cliffie, who converse from inside their… Read more »
I Am Not Okay With This
Forsman’s ability to maintain the immediacy of Syd’s point of view without completely surrendering to it results in a complex piece of work and one of the most honest depictions of the emotional telescoping effect of both depression and adolescence.
Loomings
I hadn’t read a comic book in months when I picked up The Saga of the Sub-Mariner – the single longest period of time in my entire life without reading a comic. Why did I decide to break my fast with The Saga of the Sub-Mariner?
Plump With Desire
It’s Monday, and that means new Content geared that has Maximum Share-ability.
The Green Hand and Other Stories
Nicole Claveloux’s comics give fantastic flight to common emotions in colors and landscapes that border on the surreal, and are glimpses of a road not taken, in which comics evolved differently.
Klaus Magazine 3
Every morning, we wake up to a new bile-filled hurricane of headlines. In its third issue, Richard Short’s Klaus magazine proves to be a shelter from the storm. It’s healthier to become excessively melancholy over the way the tide rolls in on the paws of a cat longing for the love of a horse rather… Read more »
Is This the Dave Gibbons Way?
In his new book, the artist of Watchmen tries to explain “How Comics Work”.
“FYI: I’m Going to Make a Lot of Books”: A Conversation with Zainab Akhtar & Peow
I think that there are a lot of chumps working in comics and even big “older publishers” are just moving so slowly and still making mistakes.
“Chosen People”: A Conversation with Drew Friedman
The great caricaturist talks about celebrity, artistic cruelty, his family, his audience, and (of course) Shemp Howard.
