Paul Krassner, Dead at 87: An Appreciation
Ethan Persoff reflects on Paul Krassner’s work with Wally Wood, Kalynn Campbell and Richard Guindon.
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“I’m Crazy. This Is Why It’s Really Hard To Find A Publisher”: Sloane Leong Talks To Giorgia Casetti
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 Giorgia Casetti about the cartooning “code”, making work for children, and lining things up for publishers.
Turning Away From Reality: Seth’s Clyde Fans
“Seth’s skill and talent is not up for debate any longer. We must instead move on to the implication of what he is trying to say, the only way to engage with an artist of consequence.” In the latest installment of 10 Cent Museum, Austin English examines Clyde Fans.
Live Scribing with Elizabeth Beier: Non-Fiction Comics & Comics Journalism
Elizabeth recounts the Non Fiction Comics / Comics Journalism Panel, featuring MK Czerwiec (moderator), Rosa Colón, Martina Schradi, Alison Wilgus, and Elvis Wolf discussing comics based on true stories.
“In Love with A Sea of Love”: A Conversation With Wilfrid Lupano
Brenda Dales has a lot of questions for Wilfrid Lupano about A Sea of Love, the wordless graphic novel that he and Grégory Panaccione delivered to the world last year. He ain’t gonna answer all of ’em!
Live Scribing with Elizabeth Beier: Long Form Comics
Elizabeth Beier recaps the “Long Form Comics” panel at the Queers & Comics Conference, featuring Robert Kirby, Nicole Georges, Steve MacIsaac, Lee Marrs, Hazel Newlevant, and Eric Orner.
An Unusual Gang of Idiots: The Joy of Working at MAD Magazine Past Its Heyday
Ryan Flanders looks back at what it meant and what he learned during the 17 years he spent at the house that Alfred E Neuman built.
No Choice But Comics: Kramers at X
Matt Seneca peeled back the cover of Kramers Ergot 10 and found enough comics nitroglycerin inside that he felt the need to pull in editor Sammy Harkham for some background on the thinking behind its assembly.
Live Scribing with Elizabeth Beier: Nicole Georges and Mariko Tamaki
In today’s installment of Elizabeth Beier’s recap of the Queers & Comics Conference, she takes us through Nicole Georges and Mariko Tamaki’s conversation on comics, stories, and motivation!
Robin McConnell On The Future of Inkstuds
Robin McConnell, the longtime host of Inkstuds, recently posted a series of tweets regarding the future of the project, and we reached out for clarification.
Live Scribing with Elizabeth Beier: Magdalene Visaggio In Conversation
From May 16-19 2019, New York City’s School of Visual Arts hosted the Queers & Comics Conference, a biennial LGBTQ cartoonist conference. The event was organized by Jennifer Camper and Justin Hall and provided a space for artists, writers and fans to discuss everything from publishing to story structure to social justice to different kinds of pens. Bay Area artist Elizabeth Beier attended the event and created visual notes of some of the panels.
Everett Raymond Kinstler Reminisces About His Life In The Worlds Of Illustration and Comics – And The Duke
Before he passed away this past May, the legendary Everett Raymond Kinstler–illustrator of Presidents, pulps, comics and Hawkman–spoke at great length with Steven Brower about a life, and career, lived well.
Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar
Tegan thought she was done, but then Todd McFarlane reprinted a bunch of issues of Spawn tie-in comics, and so she’s back. With a movie pitch!
Nate McDonough: Day Five
On his last day, Nate McDonough turns his Cartoonist’s lens onto the Diary process itself–well his courageous eye like what it sees, or will he blink?
Nate McDonough: Day Four
You never know what random crap you say is gonna turn up after they put you in the ground: so choose that stuff wisely, hoss!
“We Write About The Things That Obsess Us”: An Interview with J.M. DeMatteis
Alex Dueben and J.M. DeMatteis got together to discuss the recent rerelease of DeMatteis and Jon Muth’s influential Moonshadow, and the years of writing experience that surrounded the series original publication.
Nate McDonough: Day Three
Clocking in has its own challenges, but otherwise, Nate’s work day turns out quite like most of ’em. But swapping Sons of Anarchy out for Downton Abbey? That’s a choice, pal!
Excerpt: Trust Album
Thanks to Przemysław Trusciński, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from his Trust: Album. To find out more, take a look at Michal Chudoliński’s interview with him, published last week.
Nate McDonough: Day Two
Nate’s morning ramble through the backissue market concludes with an explanation of the difficulties inherent in getting Coors Light to the people. Cartoonist? Meet diary!
Welcome to Paradise Systems
R. Orion Martin (with kuš!) has helped translate and publish a number of underground Chinese comics artists, which American alternative comics readers will find familiar in subject matter, but strange and original in tone and approach.
“ALL Of Making Comics Is Pleasurable To Me”: An Interview with Trevor Von Eeden
From shaking hands with the King to sharing studio space with Neal Adams, Trevor Von Eeden’s career has been laced with history–and he and Josh Bayer mined it all for the latest run of All Time Comics. In this 2019 interview, the two of them dive right into Eeden’s hard-earned philosophy on the form.
