The Materiality of Comics
In this first installment of a new column, Kim Jooha explores the materiality of comics by looking at the work of three artists: Warren Craghead, Alexis Beauclair, and Erin Curry.
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OVERWORD 4 · Squadron Supreme & Quasar
OVERWORD RECAP 1 · TEEN TITANS – My need for colorful, clean-cut super heroics and my obsessive habit to hunt back issues in bulk met at the intersection of Wolfman & Pérez. My enthusiasm was destroyed by troubling story elements but was resuscitated by the excellent Titans Hunt storyline. 2 · JSA/ALL-STAR SQUADRON – A Roy… Read more »
“We’re All Writing About Ourselves on Some Level”: A Conversation with Sophie Yanow
Talking to the creator of War of Streets and Houses about art styles, the dangers of navel-gazing memoir, and her webcomic, The Contradictions.
“I Left with the Mission to Level Up”: Sloane Leong Talks to Glynnis Fawkes
Cartoonist and critic Sloane Leong has been speaking with the her fellow artists-in-residence at the Maison de Auteurs in Angouleme, France. This week, she’s speaking with Glynnis Fawkes about her comics work on black holes, literary titans and middle grade historical fiction.
The Art of Juxtaposition: Botticelli and Karl Stevens
At Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Renaissance art is being exhibited with contemporary comics work.
The Dark Knight Returns: Art Makes Sense If You Force It To
A new comics reader decides to cram the titles that comics call their canon. In the first installment, it’s Frank Miller’s take on an aging Batman that gets the spotlight.
“What’s Next, Walmart?”: An Interview with Mary Fleener
Mary Fleener sits down with Alex Dueben to talk about Bille and the Bee, her wildly unique graphic novel about bees, the environment, and people who don’t pay attention.
There’s Power in a Name: Seth on His Twenty-Year Project, Clyde Fans
After twenty years, Seth’s Clyde Fans sees publication this month from Drawn & Quarterly. In this extensive conversation, he talks about the story, the work that went into it…as well as David Lynch, likable characters, the mysteries of writing, God & Chester Brown.
Quick
Today on the site, we have AJ McGuire’s review of Graham Chaffee’s To Have & To Hold. In Graham Chaffee’s Big Wheels, published by Fantagraphics in 1993, the narrative is handed off from one character to another as they pass by each other or interact throughout a single day in the city. This is a timeless… Read more »
Kazuo Koike, 1936-2019
Remembering the writer of Lone Wolf and Cub, Crying Freeman, Lady Snowblood, and many more things than were deemed fit for our local eyes.
A No-Deal Christmas
Cassandra Darke, the titular protagonist of Posy Simmonds’ latest comic, is the cartoonist’s most heroic figure so far, and the book is an assertive step in the direction of more proactive social engagement.
“I’m Very Interested in Cartooning as a Language”: Sloane Leong Talks to Antonio Hitos
Cartoonist and critic Leong is speaking with the her fellow artists-in-residence at the Maison de Auteurs in Angouleme, France. This week, she talks to Hitos about his “Noise” project, Charles Schulz, and whether or not he’s being too strict with himself.
