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Rob Clough writes about Raina Telgemeier; Clowes, Sfar, and Sattouf withdraw from the Angoulême Grand Prix; much more.
Rob Clough writes about Raina Telgemeier; Clowes, Sfar, and Sattouf withdraw from the Angoulême Grand Prix; much more.
Thanks to everyone who missed me, and sorry for making you regret it so soon!
Paul Tumey’s faves of 2015, Julia Gfrörer’s Twitter account suspension, and much more.
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
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.
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.
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.)
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).
Very short, like my time in this place.
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!
Modern Romance by Mardou