Article Archive
Who Invented Milton Caniff’s Most Famous Character?
Milton Caniff always took sole credit, but who really inspired her?
Nothing Behind The Eyes
AJ McGuire takes a zine break to deliver Now’s message, Leif explains the fruits of shut in time.
His Brother’s Corpse
Eric Reynolds talks economic gangsterism, Tegan on David B’s perfectionist slant, it’s Bobby’s world.
“Amazon Is the Global Warming of the American Economy”: A Conversation with Eric Reynolds on the ComiXology Originals Announcement
The Fantagraphics associate publisher explains how he thinks comiXology fits into Amazon’s plans to monopolize not just comics publishing, but retail as a whole.
High on Liar
It’s Brian Nicholson time, with a video and a glorious campaign you should all vote for.
Dean Miller: In (and Out) Like Flint
There are hundreds of unknown sob stories in comics. Creators routinely signed away the rights to their original concepts, had their work butchered by heavy-handed editors, and suffered as the comics industry weathered financial upheavals. And that’s just comic books. Newspaper strips are another thing.
Revisiting Dakota North
According to Keith Silva, we don’t talk enough about Dakota North–and he’s here to remedy that situation, with a look at the under-discussed ’80s miniseries by Martha Thomases and Tony Salmons that introduced the character.
Dermal Lift: Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X
Weapon X isn’t the only superhero comic to tear down its protagonist’s heroic facade or even to indict its readers for believing in that image – though it is one whose force and quality surpasses all but the top rank of stories to do so.
Ian Densford: Day Five
Ian goes into the woods, pal in tow, danger afoot: will our cartoonist make it safely to his destination?
Ian Densford: Day Four
The cartoonist’s diary continues with a break-time daydream.
Wednesday’s Satanic Children
It’s a podcast, and it’s a diary, and it’s a sweet update on facts and figures!
Episode 31: Lauren Weinstein
The Normel Person and Goddess of Warcreator talks Aisha Franz, Gary Panter, Carol Tyler, and more.
Ian Densford: Day Three
We all get lost in your work, but sometimes your work is drawing a whole lot of dead bodies: it takes a toll!
“I Look at Every Story I Draw in a Different Way”: An Interview with Rubén Pellejero
Pellejero is one of Spain’s great comics artists (Historias de Barcelona, The Summer of Irreverence, Rain Wolf). Today he, along with writer Juan Díaz Canales, is making the new adventures of one of comics’ greatest characters, Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese.
Ian Densford: Day Two
This day in history.
