Article Archive
Big “If”
A review, in comics form, of Bill Schelly’s new biography Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America.
And So On
We have two Rob Clough reviews for you this morning. First, he writes about a collection of Eric Orner’s Completely Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green: Getting [this] published in one volume is an important step to building continuity in the history of gay comics. Once a widely-distributed strip in gay-oriented publications, the comic became popular… Read more »
Run from Love
It’s Tuesday, and Joe McCulloch is here to prep you for the Week in Comics, and also to tell you about his experiences at this past weekend’s Free Comic Book Day: “So what do you think of Convergence?” “It’s a piece of shit.” We were almost 90 minutes into our first stop, and Chris had… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/6/15 – Underground Comics)
A subterranean journey through Free Comic Book Day.
Dustin Harbin on Batman Year One
Dustin Harbin joins me for a conversation about Batman Year One, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Full disclosure, I went into this pick totally wanting to hate on it and hate on Frank Miller, but I have to stay honest (that’s the TCJ Talkies Code) and admit this book is still a solidly satisfying… Read more »
Making the Sausage
Today on the site: Matt Seneca interviews Guy Colwell. MS: Comics is such a natural refuge for figurative art that it’s makes sense you’d end up there. But Inner City Romance also incorporates a lot of abstraction, both in the visuals and the plots, such as they are. What appealed to you about the long… Read more »
Street Talk: The Guy Colwell Interview
Guy Colwell’s Inner City Romance is the most politically cogent of the San Francisco underground comics by leaps and bounds.
Roger Armstrong: Conversing with One of Cartooning’s Better Sprites
Armstrong (1917-2007) was a man-sized pixie with a gray beard and a haystack hair-do and dark Mephistophlean eyebrows, an archetypically elfin presence who saw the humor in humanity’s parade and delighted in it.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/29/15 – Break Your Back with Books)
Just a simple, old-fashioned column this week. No fuss.
The Daniel Clowes Interview
In this 1992 interview from The Comics Journal #154, Gary Groth and Peter Bagge talk with Daniel Clowes about art school, Lloyd Llewellyn, and the beginnings of Eightball.
Spring Cleaning
Show and tell.
Katie Skelly on The Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka
The creator of Nurse Nurse talks about a pivotal book in the manga master’s oeuvre.
