Article Archive
Ward Zwart, 1985-2020
The friends, collaborators, and colleagues of Ward Zwart reflect on the experience of working with him, reading with him and creating with him while mourning his recent passing.
Only Ten May Enter: Rotopol Zu Gast In Bremen
Oliver Ristau returns to Bremen’s Room 404 for an exhibit of new comics work, as exhibited and performed by multiple artists associated with Rotopol Press. Germany is making moves!
“They Tread That Perfect Balance Between Fantasy & Reality”: A Conversation with Hannah Eaton
Cartoonist Joe Decie and cartoonist Hannah Eaton talk about horror, both folk and personal, and how that informs and appears in her work, especially the recently published Blackwood.
Society Made Me What I Am – This Week’s Links
Stuck inside for the duration? Never fear: let the nimble links to comics news, reviews and interviews provided by Clark send you spiraling across the spheres, learning and laughing as you go. You have the power!
The Origin Of The Black Comics Collective: A Conversation With Deirdre Hollman
Deirdre Hollman, the founder of The Black Comics Collective, speaks with Ian Thomas about how the organization has developed over the last few years, its origin story, and how its recent accomplishments have informed its plans for the future.
Picasso and Comics
Cynthia Rose unpacks the history of Pablo Picasson’s comics, his zines, his caricatures and the cottage fascination that he still inspires in cartoonists as a character, spilling out from the “Picasso And Comics” exhibit at Paris’ Musée Picasso.
“It Ended Up Growing To Be Bigger Than I Thought”: An Interview with Andy Douglas Day
Robert Newsome catches up with Andy Douglas Day, whose 2020 comic Boston Corbett may be the first of its kind: a 1300 page graphic novel that takes its design cue from “a car battery”.
May You Live In Interesting Times – This Week’s Links
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!
A Brief History Of The Content In A Traditional Glenn Danzig Comic
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.
Muddied Waters: Katie Skelly Talks About Creating Maids
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.
Momentism Revisited: “Batman: Three Jokers”
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.
Once You’re Inside You’re On Your Own – This Week’s Links
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!
“Let Them Do The Heavy Lifting”: An Interview With Aubrey Sitterson
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.
When You’re Lonely, You Contemplate Yourself
Bob takes a look at Tomine’s latest, and proposes an alternate title.
“I’ve Got Decades Worth Of Suppressed Emotions”: An Interview with Adrian Tomine
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.
Everyone’s Entitled To One Good Scare – This Week’s Links
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!
“It Is Rare For Them Not To All Run Together In My Mind, Assuming I Recall Them At All”: The Stuart Immonen Comics Journal Interview
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!
Richard Allen Lupoff: Among the Memories
Another friend shares their memories of early fanzine pioneer, publisher and writer Dick Lupoff.
Excerpt: The American Mainstream
Matt Seneca cradles some longbox finds from the early 60s in his ongoing search for the quintessential “mainstream” comic in this exclusive excerpt.
“If People Offer Themselves For Me To Sharpen My Teeth On, I Think They Get What’s Coming To Them”: A Conversation with Julia Gfrörer
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.
Richard Lupoff: A Remembrance
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.
Another Fine Mess – This Week’s Links
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!
American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason
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.
