Excerpt: Good News Bible
An excerpt of the politically charged, hallucinatory, Jack Kirby-infused punk cartoons that Shaky Kane brought to Deadline magazine decades ago.
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“I Never Felt Like I Had A Style”: An Interview with Charles Forsman
There’s a part of me that wants to constantly relive that because when you’re a teenager your emotions are so raw. You think you have everything figured out, but you’re also so lost and frustrated. I just find it fascinating, and I’m trying to organize that time of my life on paper.
“That’s Just What My Life Looks Like”: A Tommi Parrish Interview
Upon the release of The Lie and How We Told It, Tommi Parrish talks about bookmaking, working at Outback Steakhouse, and the Australian comics scene.
Le Baiser Mortel Du Dragon
Bemoaning the state of quality Wetworks criticism, a blog entry containing links to today’s entries and a ticket to the best super-hero slash-em-up tale of the hot hot 90’s.
“I’m Very Low-Key About It”: Katie Skelly And Alex de Campi
But this is what has pushed me into the arms of prose fiction: I am so tired of producing graphic novels. I’ll never leave comics. It’ll be more like a shared custody thing… but since I made the choice to split my time it’s made me a lot happier.
Excerpt: Ethics In The Gutter
An excerpt from Kate Polak’s Ethics In The Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics, focused on a storyline from Hellblazer.
The Bocce Ball Boys
Noah returns, a doctor speaks, Nicholson finally gets it right, and official donuts are revealed.
“Immediate Metacognitive Dispersal”: An Interview with Kate Polak
And she compares Primo Levi’s “over-analysis” of Auschwitz to her own over-analysis of what body wash to use in the morning.
Comics Dragnet 2
Time to gather up another round of webcomics…
Carved out, in the giant landscape of broken rocks
An interview, a column, an excerpt, a review: it’s a big old honk honk of a day.
Excerpt: Is This Guy For Real?
An excerpt from First Second’s upcoming graphic biography of Andy Kaufman, written and drawn by Box Brown.
The Mort Walker Interview
In this in-depth interview, Mort Walker talks about growing up during the Great Depression, serving in the military, developing risque versions of his characters for overseas publishers, founding a comics art museum housed in a concrete castle, raising 10 kids, and much more.
Jerk City, USA
Mike Grell wrote a lot of issues of Green Arrow. But were any of them any good? Let Tegan take the wheel.
Smokestack Foo-mania: The Life and Notary Sojac of Bill Holman
Holman took madcap comedy, pumped it into a comic strip, Smokey Stover, and punned his way to everlasting infoomy.
A Long Day’s Journey That Got So Tight
Today in news that you already knew, but had to wait for the proof that it wasn’t just the writing on the wall.
“I Watch For Patterns”: An Interview with Aleš Kot
I guess I’m also not really interested in creating expectations?
Where I’m Coming From (Part 1)
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics.
