The True History of Eustace Tilley
…And of Other Fictional and Nonfictional “Characters” at The New Yorker
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This is the final installment of THIS WEEK IN COMICS!
Pope Hats #5
The saga of best friends and polar opposites Frances and Vicki comes to an end in a double-sized issue of Pope Hats, Ethan Rilly’s catch-all, one-man anthology series. Unlike previous issues, which featured multiple stories, this one is entirely devoted to Fran and Vicki, the childhood friends who took dramatically different career paths. Fran’s a… Read more »
Belgian Lace from Hell: The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 3
Belgian Lace From Hell, the third and final volume of Patrick Rosenkranz’s “The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson,” has landed. Rosenkranz is our leading historian of underground comics. His Pirates in the Heartland (Fantagraphics. 2014),[1] took Wilson from his birth in 1941, through his ground-breaking, taboo-shattering work in the glory years of the UG. His… Read more »
Paper Pencil Life #5
The latest collection of stories, diary comics and drawings from Summer Pierre.
Eye Drum: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics
Looking at how Yokoyama plays with the fact that visual experience in comics is often deeply tied to the ear and, through the ear, the human voice.
An Interview with the Father of Mexico’s Graphic Documentary: Who’s This Rius?
The influential Mexican cartoonist Rius (Eduardo del Rio) passed away on August 8, 2017. In this 1990 interview, he talks about the end of the Cold War, ideology, and the then-contemporary international comics scene.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (’93-’98 – $1.25)
Dead, irrelevant and forgotten… but enough about me.
In-Between Days
Prior to reviewing Teva Harrison’s cancer memoir, In-Between Days, I want to provide a bit of context. Both of my parents died from cancer. I have worked in a cancer center for the last 28 years, not usually directly with patients, but quite often. So I tend to hate cancer narratives that use words like… Read more »
Manga in Theory and Practice
I was initially drawn to the Japanese edition of Hirohiko Araki’s Manga in Theory and Practice because of the two dudes looking like they were about to kiss, on the cover. They looked like sophomore versions of the Joestar family Araki is best known for creating, and I thought this was a pretty major coup… Read more »
Episode 22: Katie Skelly
The My Pretty Vampire creator speaks on Kyoko Okazak, Dave Cooper, and Nabokov.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/16/17 – Don’t You Worry)
Feels bad, man.
