Brad Bird on the Late Animator Ralph Eggleston
The filmmaker Brad Bird remembers Ralph Eggleston, a beloved colleague at Pixar Animation whose work in the animation field spanned over 30 years of theatrical films.
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The Drew Friedman Interview
In this 1992 interview, Drew Friedman talks about his family, technique, photorealism, his love of “sub-celebrities” and ugly faces, and more.
Vincent Makoto Palani Kukua, November 5, 1976 – October 4, 2022
Andrew Farago looks back at the life of an artist and comics professional whose life–and deliberate kindness–affected all who worked with him.
Vanna Vinci: Bringing Liminal Characters to Life
Matteo Gaspari returns with another profile of a notable (and under-translated) artist of Italian alternative comics: Vanna Vinci, whose work ranges from supernatural-tinged tales of the everyday to empathetic biographies of notorious women.
An Interview With Blexbolex
In this never before published interview, two highly original and wildly imaginative bookmakers discuss the book as object, “the trouble and magic” of childhood, and the word associations that create the underlying structure of Blexbolex’s stories.
Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again – This Week’s Links
I almost hit another car turning to look at a skeleton in someone’s yard today. And that’s only 1/13th the transfixing power of these creepy and eerie links.
Permanent Damage Comix Show: San Francisco, 2022
Chris Anthony Diaz hit the streets of San Francisco at the same time as a whole bunch of cartoonists for the Permanent Damage Comix Show, which had made its way over from Michael Mann’s own Los Angeles. Would the Bay Area be able to handle all that Hollywood? Let’s go to the film!
The Ineffable Image Inside the Comics of Lynda Barry
As Lynda Barry’s seminal work returns to print in new, lush editions, Robert Petersen casts a look back at the breadth of her career, and the astonishing potency that remains in the creative pursuit of the image.
PCX 2022
TCJ editor Joe McCulloch attended Philadelphia’s premiere small-press comic book show, and we were unable to stop him from filing a report.
“The Closer They Come To Being Finished The More Compromised They Become”: An Interview with Duncan Fegredo
In this sprawling conversation, artist Duncan Fegredo describes his early work in British comics, the beginnings of his American career at Vertigo with Peter Milligan, and what it was like to take over the reins of Hellboy.
Nobody Here On Your Waveband – This Week’s Links
I phased delicately between the rain to write this description of the news post: drops hovering in the air like glittering gems, like unclicked links.
A Fig in Winter
Bob Levin takes on one of the most absorbing and perplexing books of recent years: The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, an impossible, unfinished inquiry into “comic-art metaphysics” by Dave Sim & Carson Grubaugh.
A terrible beauty is born: Jim Woodring’s One Beautiful Spring Day
John Kelly talks to one of the greatest American cartoonists, Jim Woodring, about the process, the meaning, and the animating spirit behind his massive new book One Beautiful Spring Day.
The Childing Autumn – This Week’s Links
I tried to do automatic writing and all I got was “The dog ate my original art from Gasoline Alley.”
Projecting Parallels in Archi Comics
Comics! Architecture! It’s not just ACME anymore, as Duncan Steele discerns the presence of comics in architectural drawing and design.
“I Would Be Producing This Work Whether Anybody Bought It And Saw It Or Not”: The Comics of J. Webster Sharp
Ryan Carey offers an extensive appreciation of (and a brief interview with) J. Webster Sharp, one of the most striking practitioners of horror comics today.
A Sweaty Chat With Funny Pages Writer/Director Owen Kline
Owen Kline’s Funny Pages features work from Johnny Ryan, Rick Altergott AND drawings of Shatterstar. What gives? Mark Newgarden has the scoop!
Slipgate Complex – This Week’s Links
Two or Three Things I Know About News. In Praise of News. Nouvelle nouvelles. Sympathy for the News.
The Raymond Briggs Interview by Paul Gravett
In this 2003 interview with cartoonist and illustrator Raymond Briggs, he and Paul Gravett talk about parents, children’s books, nuclear fallout, Christmas, sad endings, animation, marriage and more.
Urasawa Naoki: An ‘Adult’ Since He Was Young
You’ve probably heard about Urasawa Naoki – but not how Natsume Fusanosuke knows him. How did the young Urasawa embrace the lessons of Ōtomo Katsuhiro? Why were these artists ‘adult’ while similarly popular cartoonists were not? This 2004 essay has the answers.
Dispatches from Comics Camp – A Report from SPX 2022
Jason Bergman brings you photos from the floor of last week’s Small Press Expo, with comments from more than 20 exhibitors.
“I Felt A Responsibility To Share My Experience”: Janet Biehl on Their Blood Got Mixed
Ian Thomas sits down with Janet Biehl: an illustrator, editor, translator and journalist, who has recently released her first longform comics work, Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS, chronicling life and conflict in a self-governing region of Syria.
Deny It To A King – This Week’s Links
Received wisdom tells you that the news is delivered today by video game professionals narrating from the corner of an eye. But here is the primal news; the ancient, powerful news. To click this link to is plunge one’s hands into the Earth.
