Making “Genius”: Mullaney and Canwell on Alex Toth
A conversation with the authors of the new Alex Toth biography, Genius, Isolated.
Article Archive
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/27/11 – No More Thinking)
On the ideological dialectic of Steve Ditko’s squiggles and how a slap is sometimes like a kiss. Plus: more comics; more drugs.
Bill Blackbeard, R.I.P.
The man who gave comics its memory.
Bill Blackbeard, The Man Who Saved Comics, Dead at 84
Bill Blackbeard, without question or quibble, is the only absolutely indispensable figure in the history of comics scholarship for the last quarter century.
Bill Blackbeard: Tributes
Words of appreciation from Gary Groth, Chris Ware, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Mark Newgarden, Robert Beerbohm, Michael Tisserand, Peter Maresca, Trina Robbins, and others as they come in.
Layout Workbook 7
This week we’re going to look at the frescoes of Giotto and riff on simultaneity.
The Nordic Charms of Naomi Nowak
An introduction to the artist’s dream-like tales spun in a lush drawing style.
Pascal Girard: Day 5
Pascal Girard wraps it up, and goes home to rest.
Notes on S. Clay Wilson
If we acknowledge that he was the artist who gave permission for Crumb to become Crumb, then it’s clear that Wilson was the central artist of the underground generation.
The Boss is Back
Today we revisit old conflicts, straighten out “memories” and remember the good old days.
Jim Shooter: Groundhog Day in the Land of the Apocryphiars
Running alongside his storied career as a comics writer, editor, and publisher, Jim Shooter began a second, parallel career sometime in the 1990s: that of recounting his first career in vainglorious prose and delusional detail.
Pascal Girard: Day 4
Awkward cartoonist encounters:Know them and own them.
Skyscrapers of the Midwest, Now of the Stage
The long, process-intensive journey from acclaimed graphic novel to debut stage play.
Preview: Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
Shigeru Mizuki’s first book to be published in English is a trenchant, sometimes elegaic, fictionalized memoir of a deadly war.
Pascal Girard: Day 3
A few final notes on MoCCA from our Canadian diarist.
Pascal Girard: Day 2
In today’s installment, Pascal draws about a new friend.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/20/11 – Obvious Jokes Within)
Turbulence in the world of manga-in-English inspires a look into recent works by longstanding Japanese comics presences. Meanwhile, new comics encounter the horror of DRUGS.
“Nothing Good Can Come Out of Dishonesty”: An Interview about Teaching with Ivan Brunetti
Cartoonist and teacher Ivan Brunetti discusses his new book with Ken Parille.
Pascal Girard: Day 1: MoCCA
A Canadian in New York, in a sea of booze and cartoons.
