Article Archive
Incidents in the Night 2
Last year Uncivilized Books published David B.’s Incidents in the Night, a twisting, meta-textual narrative about death, esoteric history, and the pleasures of hunting for obscure, impossible books. In that volume David B. himself appears as the central protagonist, stumbling through a nocturnal world of myth and Parisian bookstores haunted by yeti in pursuit of… Read more »
On Ching Chow, Lucky Numbers, and Gambling
A seemingly unimportant sports-page panel strip, Ching Chow touches on a number of cultural reference points—racism, mysticism, gambling, and early comics history.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/2/15 – Out of Doors)
From one home to another.
Brief Talks With Bill Griffith and Steve Cerio
Previews of upcoming features.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/25/15 – Falling Dead at the Solution’s Door)
A special pleading.
“I Had Moments Where I Just Broke Down Crying”: An Interview with Bill Griffith
A transcription of Bill Griffith interview held at this year’s Small Press Expo, at which he debuted his startling new graphic memoir, Invisible Ink.
“This Heartbreak Sonata I’ve Been Slowly Composing”: An Interview with Jeremy Sorese
A conversation with Jeremy Sorese, whose first graphic novel, the sci-fi story Curveball, debuted at Comic Arts Brooklyn. Curveball follows Avery, a young genderqueer person who works as a waiter on a cruise ship off of a science-fiction version of Chicago’s tourist-y Navy Pier.
CAB 2015: More Comic Art Brooklyn Notes
Part Two of our CAB 2015 report.
Pure Shores
I had gotten the impression that, after Jaakko Pallasvuo’s English-language debut Some Approaching End was published in 2011 by Landfill Editions, the artist had abandoned comics to focus on net art. A piece then appeared in Mould Map 2, a text story about browsing the Facebook pictures of an object of fascination. It was easy… Read more »
The Artist is Not Present: A Conversation with Adrian Tomine
on the occasion of his Adrian Tomine’s new book Killing and Dying, Anne Ishii talks to the cartoonist about his authorial voice, sense of place, and fatherhood.
Marx
Marx: An Illustrated Biography is a remarkable work, with a comics backstory that the two talented collaborators themselves are not likely to have encountered. We are evidently in a literary era bursting with biographies—perhaps history minus progress has now returned large thoughts to individual lives—and today’s comic artists do not wish to be absent. Philosopher… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/18/15 – The Earth’s Bouquet)
Odd efforts this week; tilting at windmills, chasing ghosts.
