THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/15/16 – Machine Shop)
This time, I shall preserve the margins of the front page with mechanical precision.
Article Archive
Carpet Sweeper Tales
Carpet Sweeper is an exceptional book. Though Doucet stopped drawing comics more than a decade ago, these collages function as comics in the best possible sense: images and text so reliant on each other that one cannot operate fully without the other, and out of that interworking, narrative is born.
Sacred Heart
The best way to read Liz Suburbia’s book Sacred Heart is to never stop asking questions about the details. Unlike many creators of art about teenagers that focuses on them to the exclusion of adults—or even touching on their absence, Suburbia immediately but subtly alerts the reader that something is not quite right from the… Read more »
Episode 10: Lane Milburn
Milburn (Twelve Gems) discusses halting his Vice strip Envoy, a ‘lazy river’ theory of comics-making, the Closed Caption Comics group, and polarizing creators from R. Crumb to Frank Miller.
Outcault, Goddard, the Comics, and the Yellow Kid
How They Unwittingly Conspired To Bring a New Mass Medium into Popular Culture.
After Nothing Comes
In quiet moments, after the roar of a concert or the consistent rapport of an intoxicating conversation, true friendship is realized. It is is not until this connection is solidified, to wait for another day, that one may understand how perfectly another person fits into their life. These moments of quiet contemplation and reminiscing are… Read more »
Night Air
Work aimed towards the highly desired demographic of “All Ages” usually follows the same marketing-friendly formulas and resorts to the same winking irony. In popular culture, Pixar is most likely to blame, but comics have jumped on board, full steam ahead (Challenge: Go to your local comic shop’s kid’s section and look for a single… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/8/16 – Verdammtendämmerung)
As above, so below: Hellboy is all about love.
An Interview with Chester Brown
Two masters of the comics medium talk sex, comics, religion, and critics.
Don’t Come in Here
Patrick Kyle’s Don’t Come in Here follows a human (or human-like) character’s stay in a vast apartment unit: a five-year stretch of uneasiness. The place is home to a seemingly infinite number of rooms and hallways (yet only one wall away from an irritable neighbor), and it also serves as a laboratory for Kyle. His… Read more »
Lauren Weinstein on 5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
The Girl Stories and Goddess of War artist talks about the newly translated 5,000 km per second, recently published by Fantagraphics.
Paper Girls
No one is writing about how four adult men came to create a successful comic book about four young girls.
The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager (1904-06)
Now, we wind the clock back to 1904 and take a look at what could be called the “lost” Sundays of Gus Mager – three short series that represent fascinating experiments in style and content.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/1/16 – Hee Haw)
Don’t ask me why there’s so many jokes this week. I went to three Memorial Day parties, so maybe I’m Fun.
