In this unpublished conversation from 2012, Michael Dooley sits down with artists Marc Bell, Joe Coleman, Esther Pearl Watson, and Robert Williams to discuss the place and value of comics in the realm of fine arts.
It’s Michel Versus Chuck, Keith on memory, and the internet on everything else.
This week sees the release of Michel Fiffe’s official continuation of Rob Liefeld’s Bloodstrike series, legally (and affectionately) known as Bloodstrike: Brutalists. Meanwhile, Chuck Forsman has set up shop at Patreon, where he’s currently serializing Automa. While the majority of their conversations take place at the conventions they often share a table at, some of them make their way into print: like this one you’re about to read.
Working his way through a stack of recent mainstream and alternative superhero comics, Ken Parille finds many drowning in clichés and a few that get it right.
Thanks to Brady Evans and Sloane Leong, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Brady’s Left in the Canefields, one of the comics to appear in Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Oceania Edition.
When you’re looking for the way into a complicated news story about what’s been happening in Detroit, it helps to be able to pull the cat card.
Peter from The Beguiling is here, Irene gears up for some Godhead action, and we talk abou the pluses and minuses of BookExpo.
Founded in 1987, The Beguiling has set a new standard in Canada for comics and graphic novel retail. Showcasing the largest selection of alternative, underground and avant-garde graphic story telling in the country, The Beguiling has a worldwide reputation for excellence. Peter Birkemoe has the deets!
Quincy’s energetic, juicy brush line and lively layouts showed that comic strip rendering could qualify as high art.
Start your week off right with Eli Valley, Shea Hennum & a reminder of the future in which you must now live.
“Over how many years, decades, or centuries are we supposed to be in dialogue with people who not only refuse to acknowledge our authenticity but who are all-in in a project of ethnic-cleansing?”
Plus Man and Hank find themselves facing the most difficult heist of their career: the heist of finding gainful, non-crime-based employment! Check out this excerpt from Ben Sears’ latest Double+ graphic novel!
The cartoonist behind the teen strip Ponytail, who was also drew the Sunday Dennis the Menace strip and was an animator for Warner Brothers, died in a plane crash.
Today, Chuck and Max figure out the comics situation, Ben Sears takes the stage, the best profession gets its due.
It’s Cartoonist Vs. Cartoonist, and Chuck Forsman has Max de Radigues in the hotseat to talk about his latest graphic novel Weegee, the French version of a co-op and what trick Max uses to keep his feet moving.
Tuesday is Monday, so start your week off with some Alex Degen and some French colors.
Talking business and art with one of the most accomplished colorists in European comics.
Today it’s Tegan on Los Bros, more evidence that the Greeks weren’t the only ones with mythology, and an embedded YouTube video!
