Local Heroes: The Uncanny Counter
Once again, William Schwartz takes a look at contemporary webtoons – this time, Jang E’s popular tale of street-level, politically-aware superheroes, The Uncanny Counter.
Once again, William Schwartz takes a look at contemporary webtoons – this time, Jang E’s popular tale of street-level, politically-aware superheroes, The Uncanny Counter.
Canadian arts and culture writer Vincent Cherniak presents a free-form appreciation of the latest release from veteran cartoonist Seth, with special appearances by critic Dominick Grace and cartoonist Charles Jaffe.
Hagai sits down with one of the quintessential 2000 AD artists: Arthur Ranson, whose body of work stretches back to the early 1970s, and continues to expand online today.
Standing before the wicked team of horses, saying “I will tame you.”
Out in North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Morgan’s Comics seeks to be a community gathering place. Zach sits down with Morgan Albritton herself to hear about how it’s going.
Your wretched editor writes about Chantal Montellier’s newly-translated Social Fiction and Frédéric Coché’s new, needs-no-translation L’Almageste.
Blasting though the realms of perception, Jean Marc Ah-Sen astral links with Tradd Moore, artist of a decade’s worth of lysergic genre comics and auteur of the soon-to-be-collected Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise.
Two dozen crabs on the trawl, and one of them is mine.
Longtime retailer and comics distributor Bud Plant remembers a friend: the collector, historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., who died earlier this month.
For 80 years, Tom Shapira has hunted the white whale… or, at least, he’s read 80 years’ worth of Moby-Dick comics. And the tale they tell is literal, prosaic: shrinking before the Leviathan.
Jason is chasing that strange alchemy of words and pictures, and with him is cartoonist Oliver East and illustrator/philosopher Helen De Cruz.
A special, first-time-online transcript of a momentous meeting between four major talents: Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli and Art Spiegelman discuss the making of the graphic novel of City of Glass, at it happened at Comic Arts Brooklyn in 2013.
I’m sorry… I’m so distraught that the local pretzel stand burned down… I can’t write anything, I’m sorry…
Matt Petras discusses Dear Mini, a memoir of friendship in troubled times, with author Natalie Norris – a Center for Cartoon Studies graduate releasing her first collected book.
Remembering a generous curator, an avid collector, an astute connoisseur – Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. died this past week, aged 76.
Do incarcerated people want to read comics? Absolutely. But how can they? Ian Thomas speaks with representatives of four organizations dedicated to getting books into the hands of American prisoners – comics included.
Tegan examines the work of cartoonist Katie Skelly, with a special emphasis on the new, expanded re-release of her erotic comics collection The Agency.
Flashback to the early 1970s, as Natsume Fusanosuke recalls the situation of his youth, living alone with a woman and reading two landmark manga about young people living together: Hayashi Sei’ichi’s Red Colored Elegy and Kamimura Kazuo’s Dōsei jidai.
It’s hard enough running a comic book store during a pandemic, but how about opening one? Dreamers & Make-Believers pulled if off, going from pop-up retailer to brick-and-mortar in Baltimore, and Zach’s got the story.
Catching up with the unmistakable artist of Orc Stain, some standout Godzilla and Alien comics, and the ongoing martial arts saga Orphan and the Five Beasts.
I said the word news so many times it sounds funny, so now I have a new word: triumph.
In this excerpt, Helen Chazan reconsiders Kim Thompson’s landmark essay “A Modest Proposal: More Crap is What We Need” by way of Brian K. Vaughan’s and Fiona Staples’ Image megahit Saga.
This time Bob’s taking on Where have you been?, a collection of 25 years’ worth of comics from artist Ivana Filipovich, who drew for years, stopped for years, then drew for years more.