Article Archive
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/20/16 – Return to Dream Land)
Hope to see you in San Diego! I mean, sometime in the future. I’m not going this week, fuck that.
The Webtoon: A New Form for Graphic Narrative
A look at the differences between print comics and Korean webcomics, or webtoons, and the effects and implications that those differences generate in terms of the aesthetics of webcomics as a new medium.
Hot Dog Taste Test
Lisa Hanawalt came onto the comics scene with 2009’s I Want You, a comic book first put out by Buenaventura Press and then self-published, which established a format of tender gross-outs in breakneck shorts. Her 2013 debut book for Drawn & Quarterly, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, refined the formula and played with materials, adding lush… Read more »
Geneviève Castrée: 1981-2016
The Canadian cartoonist, musician, and multimedia artist died Saturday, July 9, at the age of thirty-five.
Remembering Geneviève Castrée
Tributes to Geneviève Castrée by Anders Nilsen and Diane Obomsawin.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/13/16 – Invisible Monsters)
The whole world is watching.
Connecticut Cartoonists #6: More Quality Folks
This time our crew consists of Klaus Nordling, Harry Sahle, Tony DiPreta and, in Connecticut for a brief stay, Alex Kotzky.
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and Editorial Cartooning
Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, discussed recently the implications for her profession of the social media reactions to the notorious “Ted Cruz monkey children” cartoon she drew last December.
Dream Tube
The eye is unavoidable throughout Rebekka Dunlap’s debut comics collection, Dream Tube. In the first of the book’s stories, “Brooklyn Witch Tweets”, readers meet a sexually-frustrated illustrator with an eye for a head. In “Cities and Spaces and”, a man and a woman take a plunge through a large, eye-like portal but don’t find themselves… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/6/16 – Tiny New Bites)
Just a few morsels for us to chew.
“I Want Everything to Mean Something”: A Conversation with MariNaomi
Talking to the Turning Japanese creator about storytelling, promotion, traveling to Japan, and an atheist’s take on spirituality.
