“Sometimes, You Get Your Throat Cut While a Clown is Pulling Your Pants Down”: An Interview with Josh Simmons
Talking horror and narrative with the creator of The Furry Trap.
Talking horror and narrative with the creator of The Furry Trap.
More than simply an exercise in narrative innovation, Building Stories is a project obsessed with the lived experience of time.
Building Stories? Take your time, and read it carefully.
So it’s come to this – personal anecdotes in defense of comics. Pray, PRAY for our columnist, pilgrim.
How does this concentrated exploration of failure shape our understanding of these artists’ accomplishments, as well as their relationship to their own work?
What I find impressive about many of the recently emergent small-press and boutique publishers is their rate of output.
Loss means a lot of things in Building Stories, and, in keeping with the text’s complexity, loss is something that Ware’s characters dread, fight against, and fear, yet also something that they occasionally desire.
Eurocomics legend Fabrice Neaud abandons the autobiographical form … to emulate John Byrne?!
The creator of Building Stories talks to us about boxes, architecture, parents, and iPhones.
As I unboxed Building Stories, sitting on the floor and slowly spreading out its wondrous contents, my first thought was of Marcel Duchamp’s Box in a Valise, his “portable museum”.
In this excerpt from Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story we’re brought into Marvel in 1992, buzzing with marketing changes, sales figures and the just-departed Image artists.
Down ‘n dirty Chris Ware chat from the front lines of the comics store, where OH SO MANY THINGS are due.
In Building Stories, the game and the book-as-object are the frameworks through which a multilayered, intricate web of stories and relationships emerge.
The editor becomes the edited.
Osamu Tezuka and Jason Aaron and mission statements. And a special guest turn from Joe McCulloch.