George Horner’s comics-adjacent work is aimed at the Louvre, MOMA, and “a spinner rack in some comic book nerd’s basement man cave”, and he provides enough examples in this conversation with Mark Newgarden for any reader to make the call.
All aspects of comics made an appearance this past week: the good, the bad, the craven, the greedy, the Jim Davis. Clark’s got the links, and you’ll make the time–how can you not?
Owen Pomery’s comics combine a fascination with place, architecture and analysis, but that doesn’t mean they are intended to be sterile exercises in design. In this interview with Nicholas Burman, he explains why, for him to better express a theory of architecture, comics are “the best tool for the job”.
Initially delayed by COVID-19, Derf Backderf’s work of graphic nonfiction Kent State arrives now, even as the lessons that its subject matter once taught America about the horrific dangers of state power seem to have been horrifically forgotten. He discusses the history behind the book and how he makes comics with Irene Velentzas.
This week, Clark’s able to find some comics news not related to whatever Three Jokers is about, some rock solid interviews, old school blog team-ups with start-up money, and more podcast linkage than ever before.
Helen’s gone on holiday in the Frenchest of France: noir, bande dessinée and Tardi, Tardi, Tardi!
In Michal’s latest look at Polish comics, he’s speaking with Rafał Mikołajczyk about his adaptation of Stanislaw Lem and what it’s like to launch a comics career in today’s Poland.
Abhay concludes his series on sexual harassment in comics, examines his personal history writing about these subjects, considers some of the possible ways that things can and are changing for the better, and then walks out of the building, with the microphone left dead on the stage behind him.
The weekly round-up of links has arrived, and Clark’s ready to take you through all the comics news, reviews and interviews that you could want or need. Also some you don’t, but the world isn’t for you, it’s for us.
Court is in session, and Noah has some theories about Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasyte, the popular 90s manga where a guy gets super powers and uses them to slice people open but still can’t seem to crack a smile.
Today, Abhay is looking at two men with a history of allegations going back multiple years: Charles Brownstein & Scott Allie. What changed in 2020?
Irene convinced Tom Gauld to take a break from making books, comics, giant dice, newspaper strips and messing around with math to see what he has to say about…well, all of those things.
Today, Abhay is looking the stories surrounding Jason Latour, Scott Lobdell and others, as well as the convention bar scene that often surrounds these stories.
It’s time for this week’s bumper crop of comics news, reviews and things that will undoubtedly give you a bit of the blues: hopefully, you’re reading these blurbs out loud for all to hear, as the effort made to write them? Very clear!
Tom Shapira is pitting two recent war comics from Garth Ennis (Punisher: Soviet and Sara) to see which one is the best. So it’s a war between war comics? You got it!
Today, Abhay is talking to Laurenn McCubbin & Kim O’Connor, about what was wrong with the Warren Ellis Forum, what is wrong with The Comics Journal, and what steps the rest of us have to take, even after we burn those things down.
Brian Nicholson catches up with one of our most important (in terms of raw, awesome power) cartoonists, Lale Westvind, on her history, her work, her teaching and whether or not she’s going to keep riding motorcycles cross country.
Today, Abhay Khosla is speaking with Jhayne Faust Holmes, Janelle Asselin, and an anonymous third party about the So Many Of Us activist and support network, a brief contemporary history of the comic book community’s complete disinterest in dealing with its offenders, and what a future could and should look like.
Clark’s here, with all the links you need and some you don’t–but there’s only one way to discern the difference: enter, gentle reader!
Tom Kaczynski takes a look at how a DC Comics attempt at narrative streamlining (taken on as an attempt to best a competitor) inadvertently succeeded in making “narrative universes” the Platonic product storytelling aims to achieve.
Today, Abhay is looking at Warren Ellis, the culture born, cultivated and promoted on his (in)famous message board, and the hardwork of enabling performed by his sycophantic, careerist supporters.
In this conversation with Alex Dueben, Joe Sacco explains how what was originally planned as a shorter piece on climate change expanded into the excellent Paying the Land, and how he worked with the Dene of Canada’s Northwest Territory to tell their stories.
Abhay Khosla is here to catch you up what’s been happening in comics recently (and for years), what some guy just got exposed for (lots of stuff, for a long time), and how we think you should feel about it (not good!)
Which received more comics linkage this past week: Virtual San Diego Conventions or one Brooklynite’s memoir? The answer may surprise you–and it awaits just beyond the click.
