“One Thing Leads to Another”: An Interview with Kevin Huizenga
“I don’t think about it in that way. At this point, that’s the way that I draw and the way that I write. It’s not a choice. It’s just the way I do it.”
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Dylan Edwards: Day Three
Another day, another Cartoonist’s Diary entry, another opportunity to potentially frustrate the locals with tourist-style mishaps!
Dylan Edwards: Day Four
Are you ready to get spit on? Because if you’re not, you might be in the wrong room. Dylan has the deets!
Hamburg’s Comicfestival 2019
Couldn’t make it to Germany for the boundary incinerating installment of Comicfestival? Never fear. Boots were on the ground, worn by Heike & Oliver, and they’re here to catch you up on everything you missed. And it’s a lot!
Dylan Edwards: Day Two
Choreographed heavy metal crowd work: there’s more to translation than merely the spoken word. Dylan Edwards is ready to play catch-up, in today’s Cartoonist’s Diary!
“All That Truly Matters In A Story Is Emotion”: An Interview with Mark Waid
Alex Dueben attempts to catch up with Mark Waid, one of the most prolific and successful comic writers of the last three decades, and while he can’t quite cover it all–they certainly cover a good bit of what has kept Waid’s creative fires burning on books like Archie, Daredevil, Superman: Birthright, Impulse and his latest, Ignited.
Dylan Edwards: Day One
Dylan Edwards is in Japan, and so is heavy metal band Mejibray. Can Dylan make it through the evening, or will drink ticket politics stymie a dream? A new Cartoonist Diary begins!
Why Y’all Stuck on Laffy Taffy? (This Week’s Links)
In this week’s links, Ryan Flanders bemoans the Brooklyn youth of today; not their politics, not their art, not their choice of chain restaurants…but their lack of interest in Halloween costumes related to Russell Myers Broom-Hilda character.
Raina Telgemeier Has Got Guts
Raina Telgemeier’s work may feature a child-protagonist and may be read by children, but her compositional complexity within and across her autobiographical graphic narratives is as thoughtful and nuanced as the comics medium permits. It’s not good because it’s popular: it’s popular because it really is that good.
Memoirs of an Insomnious Man: Kevin Huizenga’s “The River at Night”
What happens when a dedicated insomniac reviews a book about a man who cannot sleep? Action as you have never seen.
Tom Tenney
Michel Fiffe returns with another look at a bin denizen of the not-so-recent past: Tom Tenney, whose work on the Marvel series Force Works brought a whole bunch of words that, according to Michel, were completely unnecessary.
“If Anything, The Book Would Be Longer”: A Conversation With Kelsey Wroten
Annie Mok catches up with cartoonist Kelsey Wroten, about their graphic novel Cannonball, the struggle between legible cartoons and artistic expression, and the lack of athletic style benchmarks in the creative arts.
Running on Fumes, Walking on Coals (This Week’s Links)
While the big news in comics is here, of course, the real announcement rests right at the top, where Ryan goes knucklebone deep into his own personal development. Shirts and pants. Shirts and pants!
Warts & All The Presidents: A Chat With Drew Friedman
In advance of a major exhibition of his illustrations of the US Presidents, Drew Friedman sat down with Mark Newgarden to answer the burning questions: which of those dudes was the ugliest?
Are You Not Entertained? Tegan Enters The DC Universe
Tegan O’Neil takes a dip into the world of subscription based comic book reading, with the DC Universe. Can she resist the temptation to watch cancelled television shows and focus on back issues instead? It’s time for an economics lesson!
“To Flip and Move and Shine”: Ebony Flowers’ Hot Comb
Qiana Whitted examines how Ebony Flowers use the social, historical, and economic politics of hair to chart the different phases of African American girlhood in her Drawn & Quarterly comics collection, Hot Comb.
In Deadly Earnest: A Conversation with Kate Lacour
Katie Skelly uncovers the beating heart of Kate Lacour’s Vivisectionary by sitting down with the creator behind a book that has been referred to as “neocomics” by some, “unsettling” by others, and “kind of goofy, kind of creepy” by its own creator.
Never Fight a Man with a Perm (This Week’s Links)
Never start your weekend without Ryan Flanders and his links. Never! If you start your weekend without Ryan’s links oh no I will be so terribly upset. That was my soup! I threw that soup at the wall because you just didn’t care enough!
How Yann Kebbi Made His Own Museum
Cynthia Rose profiles Yann Kebbi, the prolific and violently creative artist behind Fondation Kebbi, Americanin & The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade, whose original illustrations can currently be seen in Paris at Galerie Martel.
For the Love of Steve Canyon
The story of U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Richard A. Bauman, his collection of 41 years of Steve Canyon comic strips along with artwork by its creator Milton Caniff, and the marriage that made it all possible.
“I’m Definitely Not Trying To Subvert”: The Alabaster Pizzo Interview
Rob Clough sits down Alabaster Pizzo, whose ongoing project Mimi & The Wolves just reached the halfway point. In this conversation, Pizzo reflects on decades spent living cheap, regretting nothing, and making comics.
If You Come Back, I’ll Be the First to Shake Your Hand (This Week’s Links)
It’s Friday, and Ryan Flanders has prepared you a fine, hearty dish of all the links that you shall require to survive another weekend in this fallen world. Perry Bible Fellowship and Brian Hitch: have returned!
