Loomings
I hadn’t read a comic book in months when I picked up The Saga of the Sub-Mariner – the single longest period of time in my entire life without reading a comic. Why did I decide to break my fast with The Saga of the Sub-Mariner?
Article Archive
Plump With Desire
It’s Monday, and that means new Content geared that has Maximum Share-ability.
The Green Hand and Other Stories
Nicole Claveloux’s comics give fantastic flight to common emotions in colors and landscapes that border on the surreal, and are glimpses of a road not taken, in which comics evolved differently.
Is This the Dave Gibbons Way?
In his new book, the artist of Watchmen tries to explain “How Comics Work”.
“FYI: I’m Going to Make a Lot of Books”: A Conversation with Zainab Akhtar & Peow
I think that there are a lot of chumps working in comics and even big “older publishers” are just moving so slowly and still making mistakes.
“Chosen People”: A Conversation with Drew Friedman
The great caricaturist talks about celebrity, artistic cruelty, his family, his audience, and (of course) Shemp Howard.
A Poor Man’s Stone Temple Pilots
There’s a lot more information about said vasectomy, and the realistic implications, at the link above.
Appendix 2: Further Contexts [An Excerpt from How to Read Nancy]
In this excerpt from How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, Karasik and Newgarden explore some of the factors contingent to a Nancy strip’s original publication—paper stock, newspaper layout, etc.—and their effects on the strip itself.
Excerpt: Geis Volume 2 (A Game Without Rules)
An early look at the newest fantasy graphic novel from Alexis Deacon and Nobrow!
Feininger’s Grandkids
What if comics held up Lyonel Feininger as a model rather than Jack Kirby?
CAB 2017
All new digs for this NYC art comics festival make for a great show all around
Excerpt: Showtime
An extended look at Antoine Cossé’s Showtime, courtesy of Breakdown Press.
“People Are Very Deep”: An Interview with Zachary Braun
The creator of the science fiction webcomic Nature of Nature’s Art talks psychology, manga, animation, painting software, and effective communication.
