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.
Not to relitigate one of the most persistent debates of contemporary literature, but one of the big problems (from a critical perspective, anyway) with the recent explosion in books and comics aimed at kids is that the ideal people to critique them are the people least capable of having the tools and language to do… Read more »
Bob Levin examines three wildly different comic memoirs by the artist Jesse Reklaw, illuminating and contradicting one another in productive ways.
Zine Panique was founded in 2019, and since then the French publisher has been releasing anthologies of deliciously good quality. Previous projects have featured the likes of Casanova Frankenstein, Nathan Cowdry and M.S. Harkness, and stunning covers by the likes of Nate Garcia & Josh Pettinger and Pol-Édouard, and I regret not picking them up… Read more »
This new series by Taiyō Matsumoto is about a middle-aged editor in the comics industry who quits his job. Spat out from the daily grind, he loiters with purpose in a city of freehand drawing. There is less in the way of fine detail compared to Cats of the Louvre, Matsumoto’s second-most recent completed serial,… Read more »
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.
French cartoonist Manon Debaye’s 2021 debut graphic novel The Cliff, new in English, follows young Charlie and Astrid over the course of a week, as they’ve made a pledge to commit suicide by throwing themselves off a nearby cliff on Friday before noon, when Charlie turns 13. When they first make this vow to one… Read more »
There is a certain book in Italian comics history considered to be the first graphic novel of our modern age, one that came before even The Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt. That first story of the character Corto Maltese was serialized between 1967 and 1969, while La rivolta dei racchi (“The Revolt… Read more »
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.
A thought recurred multiple times while absorbing English indie cartoonist Mark Stafford’s Salmonella Smorgasbord: this 7″ x 10″ softcover is a nicely shaped retrospective of the kind of career that really isn’t supposed to exist anymore. Cartooning is no business for the faint of heart, on any side of the pond. The world in which… Read more »
I don’t know very much about Riley Gale, but he certainly seemed to have excellent taste in comics. I say that based on Cicadas, an anthology that Gale, the late lead singer of the thrash metal band Power Trip, had been putting together to sell at his band’s shows. The idea was to expose fans… Read more »
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.
Innocent is a seinen manga by Shin’ichi Sakamoto about a really hot sadist who is constantly crying because he doesn’t like doing sadism. But this is not a comic about bondage; rather, it’s a historical fiction about state killings and the much less fun version of torture than the recreational fetishes such violence inspires. Adapting… Read more »
Manel Naher–the Manel Naher we get to know, anyway–isn’t interested in fame. She haunts bookstores in the huge, noisy metropolis in which she lives, hangs out with a handful of like-minded people, and resolutely avoids the constant scramble for fame that powers the engine of her world. She’s a familiar, recognizable, even identifiable character; she… Read more »
Our print edition will offer a focused “Best of 2023” in the near future. This is… different.
