Commencement Address: Center for Cartoon Studies, May 2012
Tom De Haven’s words of wisdom to young cartoonists.
Tom De Haven’s words of wisdom to young cartoonists.
Tucker Stone’s strategy for defending Garth Ennis devolves into threats of violence, and Abhay Khosla talks MorrisonCon
Freeway by Mark Kalesniko (Fantagraphics) UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection (TCM) The eponymous metaphor of Matt Kalesniko’s Freeway is almost too easy: A transportation network that once granted free and effortless mobility that’s become a morass of stagnation and frustration to symbolize an animation business that promised personal expression amid camaraderie but delivers forced mediocrity… Read more »
The debut of a new column based on letters to the author. This week: Howard Sherman, artist for Dr. Fate.
Tezuka, Disney, and languages of cartooning and reproduction.
No, really, you should go read Ryan Holmberg’s column first. Did you? Okay, I’ve got Danes.
Gary Groth remembers Maurice Sendak, and introduces excerpts from his career-spanning interview with the artist in the upcoming TCJ #302.
Picksburgh
An interview that took place at the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco in December 1987.
Artists and writers comment on one of their own.
In this obituary, Philip Nel, a children’s literature scholar, provides a historical overview of Maurice Sendak’s career and legacy.
The first of a series of interviews with Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta on their ongoing epic comic, Starstruck.
Lord, what day is it? This column’s still good, right? I mean good as in ‘useful,’ naturally.
The pioneering co-editor of Twisted Sisters and creator of DiDi Glitz talks about the underground comics scene, Communism, abortion, the politics of anthologizing, contact paper-derived orgasms, and nail polish.