Article Archive
Shadow Puppets
The first installment of a new monthly column, in which the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer uses principles of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and comparative mythology to deliberately overthink the symbolic language of comics.
“What’s Actually There on the Page”: A Conversation with Brian Evenson about Chester Brown
The novelist and critic talks about the various incarnations of Ed the Happy Clown, the effects of format on the reader, changing his own mind on the best version of the story, and comics criticism in general.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/13/14 – Tangled Notes Toward an Early Biography of Ryōichi Ikegami)
The gangly years of an old legend.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/6/14 – $94.3 million to spend on comics.)
Dapper Dan! Can I write about movies! Uhh, Boyhood hasn’t opened around here yet…
Etta Hulme: Trailblazing with Ettatorial Cartoons
Etta Hulme is an icon in editorial cartooning, a trailblazer for women cartoonists. She was a full-time editoonist on the staff of a major metropolitan daily newspaper before any other woman cartoonist was; she was widely syndicated at a time when no other woman cartoonist was.
Dance to the Go-Go’s and Bow Wow Wow
Whit Taylor goes to Baltimore, Greg Hunter experiences the Holdens, and much more.
Straddlers: A Report from the 2014 Comics & Medicine Conference
Academics, health professionals, and cartoonists including Ellen Forney and James Sturm gather to discuss the special pitfalls and benefits of creating comics regarding health issues. “I had never discussed comics in such a calculated way before.”
The Plugged-Up Parodist: Nick Maandag’s Constipated Comedy
Visually, there are very few gifted cartoonists who are as remorselessly ungiving as Nick Maandag. There is no succulent texture in his universe, no oasis of exfoliating leafy beauty to offer relief from the aridity of the art.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/30/14 – We Lost the Eisner, So Looks Like I Can Finally Post Some Smut)
Whew, thank heavens that run-in with prominence is over!
