Len Wein: 1948-2017
The life of the prolific and influential comics writer and editor, who co-created Wolverine and Swamp Thing.
The life of the prolific and influential comics writer and editor, who co-created Wolverine and Swamp Thing.
Reflections on a comics critic, publisher and retailer, along with an unpublished interview.
Strictly a consumer guide.
Late in life, Jack Kirby returned to his youth. After a long, distinguished career he drew his first unequivocally autobiographical story, “Street Code”, in 1983.
We are at peak reprint. Because of this, the only worthwhile publishing projects reissuing old comic strips or books need to be either uncovering hidden gems and critical missing links to bygone eras, or repackaging material in a way that makes it more historically relevant or capital-I “Important.” Craig Yoe does neither. The hardcovers discharged… Read more »
…And of Other Fictional and Nonfictional “Characters” at The New Yorker
This is the final installment of THIS WEEK IN COMICS!
Looking at how Yokoyama plays with the fact that visual experience in comics is often deeply tied to the ear and, through the ear, the human voice.
The influential Mexican cartoonist Rius (Eduardo del Rio) passed away on August 8, 2017. In this 1990 interview, he talks about the end of the Cold War, ideology, and the then-contemporary international comics scene.
Dead, irrelevant and forgotten… but enough about me.