It’s time to say goodbye to another 2020 week: as per usual, it was packed with comics: be they news, be they blues, be they interviews. Clark is here with a roundup of links to send you off into the world more informed than you were before. Let the reading begin!
Simon Abrams takes a look back at Glenn Danzig’s foray into comics, now that his Verotik franchise has entered the next phase and turned itself into a movie that features an additional vowel.
Cartoonist Katie Skelly and Gary Groth talk about Maids, her new graphic novel with Fantagraphics, the real murders that inspired it, and how much they both love Isabelle Huppert.
One of the most read print comics of the year is….a Batman comic, featuring the Joker. Joe McCulloch is here to take a look and see what this installment of America’s favorite corporate mythology had to say for itself.
There was news this week that had nothing to do with the news: the comics news, friend! There were reviews, interviews, promotional efforts wearing the cloak of news, and they all had some connection to one of your top five favorite art forms. Clark’s got the links!
Aubrey Sitterson talks to Ian Thomas about why doing a good job was actually doing the job badly during his time with the Big Two, why his newest project is going the Kickstarter route, and what the thinks it would take for comics creators to take the power in their own field.
Bob takes a look at Tomine’s latest, and proposes an alternate title.
Adrian Tomine talks about parenting and autobiography and how they informed his most recent comic, The Loneliness of The Long Distance Cartoonist with Hillary Brown.
Clark is here to close out the week with all the comics news, interviews and reviews that gets published the week before, you know, the week that is coming up. Good luck everybody!
An expansive conversation with Stuart Immonen, whose artistic output reflects his interests: diverse, dynamic and curious. Here, he talks with Alex Dueben about his self-published work (labeled “too serious” by the biter class) and what the “Marvel method” looks like these days. Reminder: he’s not retired!
Another friend shares their memories of early fanzine pioneer, publisher and writer Dick Lupoff.
Matt Seneca cradles some longbox finds from the early 60s in his ongoing search for the quintessential “mainstream” comic in this exclusive excerpt.
Julia Gfrörer and Gretchen Felker-Martin discuss the intersection of horror and sex in the pages of Vision, her most recent comic, the most useful methods for dealing with losers online, and the value of an active fantasy life.
Writer Richard Lupoff, one of the earliest catalysts of comics fandom, was among the first wave of fans to take comics seriously and who went on to write essays and critiques of comics, died Oct. 22 at the age of 85. In this remembrance, his friend Ted White talks about their shared history.
You can’t stop the news, even if you try really, really hard, even if it is bad for you and you ask for help. So why not focus on the part of the news wherein you can have dominion: the comics news? Get started here, with all the links you’ll ever need!
Bob takes a look at the story behind the making (and breaking) of a Golden Age publisher, as told in a recent book on Lev Gleason.
Ian Thomas speaks with Sarah Lopez, Lantz Arroyo & Meher Manda about Radix Media, the Brooklyn-based, worker-owned printshop and publisher as they expand their output to include graphic novels, and explain how to make art without hewing to traditional capitalist business models.
Keith Silva catches up with Pulp 716 about how the pandemic has changed–and in some cases improved–sales at their two locations, how they deal with people new to comics, and how to best make money off your haters.
Juan Manuel Domínguez looks back at the influential career of Argentinian cartoonist legend Quino, who passed away in September.
While the world continues its inexorable slide, comics keeps doing its version of violins on the Titanic. No, no one is interested in the “real story” of what happened back then: we’re here for Clark to tell us about all the reviews, news and interviews from the past week, pal!
Check out an 9 page excerpt from Owen Pomery’s Victory Point, a new graphic novel from Avery Hill Publishing.
The latest Stan Lee book is bad, that’s no surprise. But how bad is it? Helen Chazan is here to make the case that it might be the worst one yet.
Justin Harrison takes a look at how Meredith Gran’s webcomic Octopus Pie used space and panel layout in a way unique to the scroll to deliver narrative and thematic impact.
Jeffery catches up with Kevin Mutch’s, whose recent graphic novel Rough Pearl is currently preparing longtime Mutch readers for even more, via his 400-odd page webcomic Moon Prince.
