THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/11/15 – The Debris of the Feast)
Many high-profile veterans this week, but some books take a bit longer to float over…
Article Archive
The Mana Neyestani interview
An interview with the author of the graphic memoir An Iranian Metamorphosis, which has just been published in the United States by Uncivilized Books.
Infinite Sadness
Outer space, courtly love, casual sex, alien abduction, et sic in infinitum, with comics by Lala Albert and Jack Teadle.
More Thoughts on Scroll Comics
Grid Interrupted
Creeping Death and Snake Meat: Basil Wolverton and Max Clotfelter
Who knew, or could ever have imagined, that Basil Wolverton, perpetrator of some of the weirdest and most grotesque eyeball kicks in mid-century American pop culture, once made a serious and concentrated effort to draw Mickey Mouse comics for Walt Disney?
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/4/15 – Wait, is the festival over?)
I’m– I’m almost there… wait… wait for me…
Checking in with Dean Mullaney
Talking Corto Maltese and Alex Raymond with the editor of the Library of American Comics.
Freezing Point
Matthias Wivel on Angoulême and Charlie Hebdo, plus many, many links for the weekend.
Post-Mortem
Our European correspondent on Charlie Hebdo and the attacks upon it, with attention paid to freedom of speech, iconoclasm, offensive cartoons, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism.
Angoulême est Charlie; Chinese Partnership; Otomo Grand Prix
A report from the first day of the Angoulême festival.
Love in No Man’s Land
Chloé Cruchaudet’s historical fictions.
2014: Comics, New and Old (Part II)
More reflections on “the state of the art.” Along the way we talk Lichtenstein, meta-characters, the ideal format, page orientation, Spidey vs. Spiderman, “philosophical nihilism,” cat sneakers, and the like.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/28/15 – White Blind)
Don’t get trapped! Free your mind! My god, think of the money you can spend!
