THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/9/17 – Blessed Daily Life)
Don’t lose your head: it’s just international comics.
Article Archive
Ghosts, Etc.
The title page of Ghosts, Etc., the first comics collection from Philadelphia artist George Wylesol, presents readers with not an illustration but a photograph. We see what looks like a deserted office space, largely gray, with barren desks and empty drawers. The image resembles a cheap color copy or a printout from an early home… Read more »
The Customer is Always Wrong
Mimi Pond’s previous book, Over Easy, shows her fictionalized autobiographical self, Margaret, coming into her womanhood in the crude but charming Imperial diner. Her new book, The Customer is Always Wrong, picks up midstream in the Imperial’s day-to-day life where a now competent Margaret easily slides through the diner’s usual routine: sex, drugs, and coffee-slinging.… Read more »
The Black Hood: An Anthology of Depression and Anxiety
The Black Hood: An Anthology of Depression and Anxiety is a frequently brutal but ultimately illuminating take on mental illness, something experienced by a number of artists. Editors Josh Bayer (who published the book) and Mike Freiheit (who designed it) did a remarkable job of finding a number of veteran cartoonists and younger talent willing… Read more »
An Interview with José Muñoz
Politics, crime, and jazz with the master cartoonist.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/2/17 – Appetite)
Dining out with Geof Darrow’s hungry ghosts.
Purgatory (“A Rejects Story”)
Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. – James Baldwin. “The Creative Process” As Tolstoy almost said, in high school, all alternative cartoonists are the same. Bullied. Ridiculed. Shunned. No one who has read R. Crumb (or… Read more »
“It’s a Tricky Space to Be In”: An Interview with Jonny Sun
The artist slash engineer slash doctoral student slash Twitter personality slash author talks about putting together his first book, aliens as listeners, art as therapy, and deciding to stop being anonymous.
“I’ve Always Felt Legitimate”: An Interview with Katie Skelly
Her Trash Twins cohost talks with the My Pretty Vampire creator about criticism, genre, ’80s anime, and fear.
Imagine Wanting Only This
Some works fall to ruin over time, and some are ruins on arrival. Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This is the former, the product of shaky construction. One part graphic memoir, one part visual essay, Imagine considers the impermanence of things, with a focus on human mortality and the structures we create. It is a… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/26/17 – An Invitation to the Robot Club)
Put your hands on the car and get ready to die.
Foolish Questions & Other Odd Observations: Early Comics 1909-1919
American wit has the furrowed brow and cautious stance of a boxer. Its affect may be dry, ironic or absurd, but its goal is to lay us among the posies—to cause that ker-plop moment as we absorb its blunt impact. This hasn’t changed much in the last century. The assault has become harder, fiercer. TV… Read more »
I Wish I Was Joking
An collection of funny comics by Tom Van Deusen, culled from various newspapers and anthologies.
