An Interview with Kevin Pyle
The cartoonist, whose latest book is Migrant, talks to Alex Dueben about comics as a vehicle for social consciousness.
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: Vol. II
This second volume of adaptations of the classic stories of M.R. James includes perhaps his most famous tale, “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,” along with three others.
Shine a Light
Reporting harassment at a comics show.
Sweet Revenge: An Interview with Thi Bui
Thi Bui talks about the political forces and cartooning influences that she tapped into while creating her “touching memoir The Best We Could Do.
How To Build A Comics Festival: CXC, Year Three
What makes Cartoon Crossroads Columbus work.
Can You Read Me?
Today on the site we have Annie Mok’s review of Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld. I smiled weakly a couple of times. Gauld’s ultra-minimal drawing style seems developed to showcase the words, but the words fall limply. In small doses, in a newspaper, these cartoons may have offered some amusement, but put all together,… Read more »
Baking with Kafka
“Tom Gauld is so boring,” a cartoonist friend of mine said, “If I wanted to watch stick figures jacking off I would go to Newgrounds.com.” I went into Tom Gauld’s new book of literary-minded gag cartoons, many first published in the New York Times, Baking with Kafka optimistically, wanting to laugh. I smiled weakly a… Read more »
Berserker #1
As far as first impressions go, this new comic book-format Breakdown Press magazine is a total success. You can’t tell from my scan at left, but the cover stock is so extremely thin and glossy as to seem perpetually wet; running your fingers up and down the surface, prints trailing, you can almost feel the… Read more »
“Everything I Had to Say about My Life Is in That Book”: An Interview with Tillie Walden
The Spinning creator talks about memoir, her relationship with figure skating, the importance of representation, and Studio Ghibli.
An Interview with Iasmin Omar Ata
Talking to Iasmin Omar Ata’s sbout their debut graphic novel Mis(h)adra, adapted from their webcomic of the same name.
Roughneck
In Roughneck, the latest graphic novel from Jeff Lemire, violence begets violence, the sins of the father are visited upon the son, and various other truisms apply. Lemire has returned to rural Ontario, but he’s visiting harsher places than those found in Essex County, his series of understated, beautifully rendered portraits of working-class life. Few… Read more »
Last Girl Standing
Wimmens Comix’s own Goddess Trina Robbins, now approaching eighty, warned comics artists and readers a decade or two ago that she was preparing a memoir. Some of them—I should say some of us—wondered or even winced a little. She was famously in the thick of the underground comix world of 1970 to 1980 or so,… Read more »
