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Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 6)
In 1950, the Fisher-Capp feud boiled over, in the pages of Time and The Atlantic Monthly.
The Importance of Being Ogdred: A Conversation with Mark Dery
Mark Dery is an essayist, educator, and cultural critic whose work you should know. Hopefully, his new biography will kick-start a reawakening: Edward Gorey was one of the darkest and lightest, funniest and dismalest, most original and most historically-rooted visual storytellers of his (or any other) time.
“Zanardi Looks Hot as Hell in a Skirt”: An Interview with Sarah Horrocks
Sarah Horrocks uncovers the what drove her most recent work, an adaptation of Euripedes. Also? Gundam!
Episode 35: Carol Tyler
On the final installment, Carol Tyler (Soldier’s Heart, Fab4 Mania) talks settling scores and a musical approach to comics-making. Plus, a fond farewell as Greg goes underground.
OVERWORD 1 · Teen Titans
For a moment in time, the comic that mattered the most was the one with Nightwing in it. In this month’s installment of Michel Fiffe’s Files, he takes a long look back at The Teen Titans.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 5)
World War II begins, and the first shots in the Ham Fisher/Al Capp war are also fired.
“Uhhh I Haven’t Heard This, About Me Being an Artistic Hero Haha”: A Conversation with Mickey Zacchilli
Catching up with the cartoonist behind such punk romantic works as Rav, Lovers Only, and Space Academy 123.
“It’s Still Just Me, Good Ol’ Ariel”: A Conversation With Ariel Schrag
Noah Berlatsky sits down with Ariel Schrag, the prolific creator of comics, television shows and novels, for an expansive conversation about all the dang work, and the art that shows up at the end of it.
The Reveries of E.A. Bethea
E.A. Bethea’s comics read as a detailed, confessional fever dream.
Excerpt: The Water Spirit
An exclusive look at Alexander Utkin’s upcoming Water Spirit, Nobrow’s latest attempt to introduce new colors to the visual spectrum, via the delivery system of print media!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 4)
The Capp/Fisher feud heats up.
Supernatural Law Creator Batton Lash Dead at 65
Wolff & Byrd creator Batton Lash died Saturday at the age of 65 after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Though he was never a star of the comics mainstream, the announcement drew a surge of web posts from fans and independent comics creators who knew Lash as a friendly and supportive presence at comics Michael Dean | January 14, 2019
