Herriman Riff
“I feel like we’re all in these punk bands and we all go to punk shows and then we go home and we’re supposed to study ragtime music.”
Article Archive
Quelles meufs?
Rob Clough writes about Raina Telgemeier; Clowes, Sfar, and Sattouf withdraw from the Angoulême Grand Prix; much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/6/15 – The Five People You Meet in Nemesis)
Thanks to everyone who missed me, and sorry for making you regret it so soon!
Golden Years
Paul Tumey’s faves of 2015, Julia Gfrörer’s Twitter account suspension, and much more.
Rockin’ in the New Year with The Rocket’s Xmas Covers
Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever it is you celebrate–or not celebrate–this time of the year. In the spirit of the New Year, and in an effort to further explore some historical connections between comics and other forms of popular culture, today we will be focusing on some of the Christmas-time covers done by an extraordinary John Kelly | December 22, 2015
An Interview with Samandal
Speaking with the editors of the Lebanese comics anthology Samandal, three of whom were recently found guilty of inciting sectarian strife, denigrating religion, publishing false news, and defamation and slander.
Sam Alden and Sophia Foster-Dimino on Two Comics by GG
In this episode, the creator of It Never Happened Again and the creator of Sex Fantasy discuss the work of the cartoonist known only as GG.
Will Eisner’s Star Jaws
1978 was a big year for Will Eisner. He invented… that thing where you take a massive pop culture hit, and lazily sort of mash it up with another massive pop culture hit. (He didn’t really invent that. Or the graphic novel.)
A Vogue for I Don’t Get It: Hayashi Seiichi vs. Sasaki Maki, 1967-69
In the late 1960s “Hayashi and Sasaki” became a set conjunction, and remained so in much retrospective writing. Amongst the standby names used to group their work were “avant-garde manga” (zen’ei manga), “difficult-to-understand manga” (nankai manga), and “anti-manga” (anchi manga).
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/16/15 – Reading is my REAL home.)
Very short, like my time in this place.
Episode 6: Dylan Horrocks (HOLIDAY SPECIAL)
In this double-sized holiday edition, Dylan Horrocks discusses the magic of Tove Jansson, the problems of late-period Eisner, and the troubled legacy of Dave Sim. All that, and a special guest drops by!
Sky in Stereo
Modern Romance by Mardou
