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Below Ambition
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Men I Trust
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Men I Trust
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See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture
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Detention No. 2
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Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories
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Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee
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Schappi
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Articles
Simon Deitch, 1947-2022
Remembering the late underground cartoonist: a complicated natural talent, and a child of 20th century American pop culture.
Transgression: Squeak the Mouse
Massimo Mattioli‘s Squeak the Mouse is an excellent comic; transgressive to the point of sparking litigation. But what does it mean to be ‘transgressive’ today? To be sold as such? It’s one thing to get the joke… but who is it on?
“I’m A Legendary Drunk, Right?”: A (Sober) Interview With Tony Millionaire
Two decades ago, John Kelly talked to Tony Millionaire at a bar about drinking and making comics. Now, the two speak again, about comics, Saturday Night Live, Adult Swim, Patreon, making comics…and getting sober.
True and Recognizably Human: A Conversation with R. Kikuo Johnson
R. Kikuo Johnson and James Romberger discuss Johnson’s new graphic novel No One Else, his illustrations for The New Yorker, what he redrew for the new edition of his book The Night Fisher, and why he’s sticking with comics.
“I Wanted to Create a World”: An Interview with Lane Milburn
Lane Milburn’s newest graphic novel Lure sees the cartoonist making a departure from his previous work. In this conversation, he goes into how those changes came to be, the different kinds of non-comics work he takes on to support himself, and the dark business of “graphic recording”.
As If By Chisel: Barry Windsor-Smith’s Monsters
To look at the state of Barry Windsor-Smith’s 30-plus year project Monsters, Tegan makes the case you need to get started in the 1500s, and bring those engravings to the present day: that is, if you want to take Windsor-Smith’s linework as seriously as he does.
Inside Chartwell Manor: a Chat with Glenn Head
Mark catches up with Glenn Head, whose recent memoir Chartwell Manor touches upon trauma, Satan, sex and the other horrors of youth–with a healthy dose of the kind of honesty found in the underground comics that lit his creative fire.
Ben Sears on Young Shadow and Hating The Police
A profile of Ben Sears, author of the new kid superhero graphic novel Young Shadow – an all-ages comic with a healthy distrust of authority.
“We Don’t Owe Anything To Anyone”: An Interview with Ana Galvañ
Spanish cartoonist Ana Galvañ catches up with us about her next wildly colorful comic, coming to English later this year, and what got’s her excited coming next from Spain’s zine & collective scene.
Spain Bang: New Books and Movie Rev Up the Motorcycle Outlaw Cartoonist’s Legend
We’re living through a Golden Age of Spain Rodriguez, so it’s time for Paul to catch us up on the recent reprints and biographical work (including a documentary) on the motorcycle riding Marxist radical who never stopped creating.
RJ Casey & Ed Kanerva: The Exit Interview
RJ Casey’s last day at Fantagraphics is Friday, Ed ended his tenure at Koyama in December. I thought it would be a good time to catch them on the way out the door.
“If People Offer Themselves For Me To Sharpen My Teeth On, I Think They Get What’s Coming To Them”: A Conversation with Julia Gfrörer
Julia Gfrörer and Gretchen Felker-Martin discuss the intersection of horror and sex in the pages of Vision, her most recent comic, the most useful methods for dealing with losers online, and the value of an active fantasy life.
Water For Polyhedrons: The Mechanomorphic Art Of Giorgio Carpinteri.
With new comics work from a comics legend making its way to English, Simone Castaldi is here to catch you up on what the monolingual have been missing out on.
BD Is My Beat: A Long Hard Squint at Manchette and Tardi
Helen’s gone on holiday in the Frenchest of France: noir, bande dessinée and Tardi, Tardi, Tardi!
Excerpt: I Think He’s Crazy
Check out a 10 page excerpt from the Fantagraphics collection of B.K. Taylor’s comics, I Think He’s Crazy, and ask yourself: do you agree?
Traducción Con Tijeras: How Fantagraphics’ Spanish Fever Cut A New Path In Comics Translation
Bart Hulley uncovers the dynamic lengths Kristy Valenti went to so that José Domingo’s jokes wouldn’t go unread when his work was brought to the US by Fantagraphics in 2016.
An Erection Four Decades Long: The Pornography of Wally Wood
A long look at the years that the famous cartoonist spent creating porn, spurred by the 2019 Fantagraphics publication, Cons de Fee: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood. [Contains Explicit Imagery]
A Landscape Study Of Paco Roca’s House
Paul Karasik takes a long(ways) look at Paco Roca’s graphic novel The HouseI, which takes a somewhat traditional story and turns it on its head. Like, it actually turns it. You’ll see!
Serious as a Snake Bite: A Meeting With Robert Williams
Chris Platt spent the day with Robert Williams, and he came away with his mind thoroughly blast-sanded. You’ll want to be prepared yourself, just like the Scouts of old.
“But On The Other Hand, It’s Great Story Fodder:” A Conversation with Kim Deitch
Master cartoonist Kim Deitch speaks with Bill Kartalopoulos about his latest release, Reincarnation Stories, and the lifetimes it took to get it made.
Comics Journalist Tom Spurgeon Dies at the age of 50
Comics journalist Tom Spurgeon passed away on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 at the age of 50.
“There Are Some Experiences That Bring Us Closer”: An Interview with Marcelo D’Salete
Marcelo D’Salete’s follow up to his Eisner winning Run For It is a 400 plus page graphic novel about an independent kingdom of runaway slaves in 16th Century Brazil. He spoke with Heitor Pitombo about the success the book, and how it came to America.
Warts & All The Presidents: A Chat With Drew Friedman
In advance of a major exhibition of his illustrations of the US Presidents, Drew Friedman sat down with Mark Newgarden to answer the burning questions: which of those dudes was the ugliest?
In Deadly Earnest: A Conversation with Kate Lacour
Katie Skelly uncovers the beating heart of Kate Lacour’s Vivisectionary by sitting down with the creator behind a book that has been referred to as “neocomics” by some, “unsettling” by others, and “kind of goofy, kind of creepy” by its own creator.
