THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/25/15 – There’s Always More to Forget)
A few selections from the ’70s comics magazine Ah! Nana top this latest trawl through production’s wake.
A few selections from the ’70s comics magazine Ah! Nana top this latest trawl through production’s wake.
Today on the site, we bring you a John Kelly report on the new Society of Illustrators “Alt-Weekly Comics” show. Here’s a bit from the piece: By appearing in the alt-weeklies, several generations of talented cartoonists gained access to audiences well beyond the world of fans of college papers, mini comics and zines. Their work… Read more »
You didn’t buy an alt-weekly newspaper, much less hold on to it. You picked them up from a pile somewhere, read them or didn’t, and then threw them out. Some of these papers ran comic strips, but many didn’t. Some of these papers just ran comic strips without letting the artists know and didn’t pay them.
“Applied Cartooning” is jargon to be sure, but I hope it can become useful jargon. The idea is to better position cartoonists in the marketplace so our expertise is recognized and we are compensated more fairly for the skills we bring to the table. Five cartoonists discuss the idea.
The French cartoonist Émilie Gleason and the American cartoonist Gina Wynbrandt, interview each other about life, and a little about their work.
Today on the site it’s Bob Levin on Inner City Romance. The collected ICR takes a sustained, unflinching look at lower depth America through a variety of lenses. In issue one, three newly released convicts explore their post-prison options. For two the choice is easy, sex and drugs; but the third is tempted by armed… Read more »
Salt of the earth, this week.
(b. July 18, 1918— d. Mar. 13, 2015)
The National Lampoon art director looks back.
Comics as Music
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 »
Gary Groth interviews seminal gekiga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi.
Artists, critics, and translators pay homage to the great manga pioneer.
A very small tribute, and some recent picks.
Learning to identify and read an ongoing form.