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How To Build A Comics Festival: CXC, Year Three
What makes Cartoon Crossroads Columbus work.
Can You Read Me?
Today on the site we have Annie Mok’s review of Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld. I smiled weakly a couple of times. Gauld’s ultra-minimal drawing style seems developed to showcase the words, but the words fall limply. In small doses, in a newspaper, these cartoons may have offered some amusement, but put all together,… Read more »
“Everything I Had to Say about My Life Is in That Book”: An Interview with Tillie Walden
The Spinning creator talks about memoir, her relationship with figure skating, the importance of representation, and Studio Ghibli.
An Interview with Iasmin Omar Ata
Talking to Iasmin Omar Ata’s sbout their debut graphic novel Mis(h)adra, adapted from their webcomic of the same name.
An Interview with Sophia Foster-Dimino
Discussing comics and power with the author of Sex Fantasy.
“We’ve Worked Side by Side for 25 Years”: Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim Interview
A conversation with the wife-and-husband team behind Poppies in Iraq, a memoir of Findakly’s childhood as an Orthodox Christian in Iraq.
Episode 23: Gina Wynbrandt
The creator of Someone Please Have Sex with Me talks Phoebe Gloeckner, Truth Zone, Chewing Gum, and more.
“A Tricky Cad”: The Gravies, Sawdust and Chester Gould
The meta-strips within 1950s and ’60s Dick Tracy.
Eye Buds: Yokoyama Yuichi and Audiovisual Abstraction in Comics, Part 2
Is Yokoyama plugged into portability as well? Clearly he is into mobile eyes and mobile ears. How about mobile devices and mobile books, and the techniques of miniaturization, content formatting, and sensorial coordination that they require? What follows is a meandering stab at an answer.