Article Archive
Gary Panter on Songy of Paradise
Research, character and morals in the land of Milton.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/5/17 – Tengu Party Weekly)
The only fireworks I’ve got are explosions of top-notch consumer prose.
Talking to Bill Schelly, Comics Scholar and John Stanley Biographer
An interview with the author of a new biography of the great Little Lulu writer John Stanley.
“Anything That Ever Meant a Damn Took a While”: A Tribute to Octopus Pie
Looking back at the influential and highly innovative webcomic, which once felt too close for comfort.
Weird 6
While it served as the definitive memento mori for centuries, the image of the skull became played out through overuse in the late twentieth century, circa the publication of the Appetite for Destruction album art. Afterwards it only signified a sort of toughness arrived at via nihilism, becoming increasingly ubiquitous and concurrently watered-down. Noel Freibert… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/28/17 – Booklets Are My Beat)
If this came upon you unaware, and you listened, we’ve served our purpose.
The Complete Strange Growths: 1991-1997
A collection of Jenny Zervakis’ long-running, quietly influential comics zine from the 1990’s, the first book project published by Spit and a Half.
Pretending Is Lying
Reading the New York Review Comics edition of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending Is Lying, I was reminded of an old Phoebe Gloeckner interview with Gary Groth in The Comics Journal. It’s commonly believed that the harrowing experiences she depicted in A Child’s Life and Diary Of A Teenage Girl are based partly on her own life.… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/21/17 – Tornado Morning)
We had to go into the windowless room yesterday, but we came out.
Episode 20: Matthew Thurber
The Infomaniacs and Art Comic creator discusses comics pedagogy, Rolling Blackouts, Victoria Lomasko, Michael McMillan, Dickens, Fantômas … this one goes everywhere.
A Chat Noir with Graham Chaffee
The author of To Have & to Hold talks about genre, influences, and Hollywood.
