Joe Sacco has been a writer, an editor, and a cartoonist since the 1980s. He is the author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, among more than one dozen books. “The War on Gaza” is a completely new and recurring feature of this website.
Call the cops! No, not those cops; the news cops. No, not those news cops; the cops that congratulate you on reading the news. You’ve got a citation coming.
You make a comic, you put it online. It becomes one of the most repeated memes around. Then what do you do? William Schwartz talks with artist KC Green about a variety of webcomic, print comic, and syndicated comics projects that do not always involve a dog in a burning room.
Bob Levin examines three wildly different comic memoirs by the artist Jesse Reklaw, illuminating and contradicting one another in productive ways.
Zach is back on the Philadelphia scene for a long talk with Steven “S.R.” Arnold, a collaborator on half a decade’s worth of self-published and anthology comics, recently struck out solo with the bleak and funny slice-of-life specials Perry Midlife and Perry Shitlife.
Bought myself some new pants at the Tedrick Street dump.
RJ filled his arms with comics from November’s Short Run Comix & Arts Festival, and now he’s pouring approximately half of them into your lap with the first Arrivals and Departures of 2024!
An obituary for one of the most notable of the early scholars of comic strip history: David Kunzle, author of the massive two-part History of the Comic Strip among other studies of art, politics, and society.
Comics scholar Charles Hatfield remembers the late David Kunzle, one of the pioneers of the comics studies field.
Jason Bergman sits down with the British comics superstar and co-creator of several very famous genre comics to discuss his recent autobiography.
After the storm a couple of guys from down south came out of the building like “look at all this goddamn snow.” I turned on my car to heat the windshield, and they started taking selfies in the glow of the lheadlights.
Tom Shapira remembers John M. Burns, a massively prolific artist whose work covered virtually every corner of UK comics for over half a century. Burns died on December 29.
Kicking off a new year with one of the icons of European alternative comics, as Robert Aman interviews Jean-Christophe Menu: cartoonist, critic, editor, co-founder of the game-changing L’Association, and founder of his own 21st century endeavor, L’Apocalypse.
A new year… the perfect time to settle old scores! (Unsubscribes from grocery store mailing list.)
Hagai Palevsky recalls last November’s Thought Bubble Comic Convention through reviews of books by four artists: Erika Price, Peony Gent, Tyler Landry and A Liang Chan.
Our print edition will offer a focused “Best of 2023” in the near future. This is… different.
The last links of the year?! Don’t worry, we’ll be back again before you know it…
Author and historian Grant Geissman remembers Roger Hill, a prominent figure in early comic book fandom, known for zines, books and essays from the 1960s through right now. Hill died December 6, 2023, aged 75.
Robert Aman is back with another expedition into the wilds of Swedish alternative comics! This time, he profiles cartoonist Joakim Pirinen, purveyor of ill-tempered brutes, desensitized bourgeoises, and soft bears that bare the artist’s soul.
Remembering Ian Gibson, one the crucial early artists of 2000 AD and co-creator of one of the most beloved UK comics of that era, The Ballad of Halo Jones.
Zach Rabiroff chats with one of the best young cartoonists on the busy Philadelphia scene: Nate Garcia, prolific creator of the surreal cowboy Alanzo Sneak and much, much more.
I would never cancel the noble pig, an intelligent and delicious beast.
They said it couldn’t be done: an entire column reviewing comics about ducks. But thanks to the magic of Christmas and the intervention of Santa, to whom I pray each night, RJ Casey has come through.
