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The Comics Journal #302: The Jacques Tardi Interview Excerpt
In this excerpt from the Jacques Tardi interview in The Comics Journal #302, Tardi talks about his current graphic novel project, which tells the story of his father’s experiences as a French soldier in WWII.
My Back Pages
My ostensible reason for teaching serialization in the first place was that I felt an obligation to discuss the history of the floppy, but my students don’t care at all about that history.
Maurice Sendak
A decades-long friendship between two artists.
Webcomics Capsule Reviews #2
It’s that time again: time for me to read a bunch of webcomics at random and tell you what I think of them.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/30/13 – The Face of Mainstream Comics)
A deep dive into digital manga pours out into an alternative newspaper reunion, and other things adrift.
The Ed Piskor Interview
The Pittsburgh-based cartoonist on Wizzywig, working with Harvey Pekar, and the Hip Hop Family Tree.
“Totally Righteous” Lower East Side Cartoonist Dies
Alan Shenker AKA Yossarian, March 3, 1945-January 14, 2013.
He Was Said To Have Loved It When You Called Him Big Poppa
Image Comics: The Movie
Heather Benjamin!
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where one of the bad guys tries to press Indy’s face against a conveyor belt that would pretty much sand off his skin. Your first glimpse of a Heather Benjamin drawing feels something like that.
Entertaining Comics
Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth on what EC accomplished and what it didn’t.
Advertisers Don’t Care About Moral Indignation
Howard Chaykin, Janelle Hessig, Dylan Horrocks, and a half-dozen more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/23/13 – Paradigm Squared)
Pucker up for DIRTY COMICS in this week’s erotic voyage toward… categorization!
Arrrr, I Am A Comic Book Writer and This Bed Is A Pirate Ship
The John Byrne comic that nearly broke this column’s back.
