THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/18/15 – Farts, Sex & Culture)
Salt of the earth, this week.
Article Archive
Irwin Hasen: Dondi, Wildcat Artist Dead at 96
(b. July 18, 1918— d. Mar. 13, 2015)
The Michael Gross Interview
The National Lampoon art director looks back.
Space is the Place
Comics as Music
Tatsumi Yoshihiro, 1935-2015
Tatsumi Yoshihiro, one of comics history’s greats, passed away on March 7, 2015. He was seventy-nine years old. He died of malignant lymphoma. Tatsumi is famous as the artist who helped fashion a new style of manga known as “gekiga” (dramatic pictures), a term he coined in 1957. He played a major role in broadening… Read more »
Yoshihiro Tatsumi Interview
Gary Groth interviews seminal gekiga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Tributes to Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Artists, critics, and translators pay homage to the great manga pioneer.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/11/15 – Just this today.)
A very small tribute, and some recent picks.
Poetry Comics, Profluent Lingering, and Two Works by Bianca Stone
Learning to identify and read an ongoing form.
Paco Roca: Tales of Memory and Consciousness
Wrinkles marks the long overdue translation to English of Spain’s Paco Roca, perhaps the most prolific artist-author to emerge from the legendary El Víbora magazine since Max and Marti in the eighties.
Travelogue 2015
James Romberger’s trip through Europe, encountering all manner of comics culture along the way.
Winnie the WAC
Winnie the WAC was to the Women’s Army Corps in World War II what Dave Breger’s Private Breger and George Baker’s Sad Sack and Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe were to the entire U.S. military—a moral booster nonpareil.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/4/15 – The Hits Stop Coming)
Arithmetic on the passing of an era.
The Dame Darcy Interview
In this 1994 interview, Dame Darcy and interviewer Darcy Sullivan talk about Victorian influences, ghosts, and pointy boobs.
