Benjamin Marra talks with filmmaker, musician and cartoonist S. Craig Zahler about how role playing games, his love of legit comics and making movies brought him to the next project: writing and drawing his first graphic novel, The Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus.
Kate Lacour spoke to four cartoonists (Phoebe Gloeckner, Julia Gfrörer, Dame Darcy & Nina Bunjevac) about how their dollmaking practice engages (and expands) their art making. Then, to confirm what she has found, Kate checks in with a doll to see what they think!
Richard Short’s Klaus comics just saw their biggest collection yet, by way of Breakdown, and Joe Decie caught up with the creator about what it’s like, keeping up with the world’s most thoughtful cat.
Andrew White catches up with Madeleine Jubilee Saito about how she came to webcomics, creating in the Midwest, how Christianity informs and illuminates her work, and what her commitment to “30 Days of Comics” has taught her.
Ian Thomas talks with MK Czerwiec (the ComicNurse) about the growing passion the medical field has for comics, and how the popular website Graphic Medicine has expanded its focus over the last few years to encompass that growth–as well as how the project began!
Cartoonist and podcaster JB Roe catches us up on how Deathlok and the TMNT got him started with comics, how risographs and the small press have kept him going, and why he’s not concerned about blowback for expressing his opinions on Gutter Boys.
The influential creator talks about how he got his start in comics, how a conversation with Jim Steranko helped cement his legacy, his time in animation, the return of Milestone, and how far comics has to go (and what it has to do) if it really wants to change its racist legacy.
Austin English looks forward to the future via his publishing and distro outfit, Domino Books, the conclusion of years of work on his next comic, and talks about why its time for readers to expand their definition of comics.
In these two conversations excerpted from Groth’s career spanning interview with Roz Chast, they discuss her experience at The New Yorker, then and now, and her feelings about the importance and limitations of draughtsmanship.
Artist, activist and ALS warrior Patrick Dean speaks with Eleanor Davis about what they learned from Donald Westlake, how he balanced the bad with the funny in his comic Eddie’s Week, and how he’s making work (including drawing with his eyes) despite his ALS.
Frank Young and James Danky talk about “Wisconsin Funnies”, Danky’s past adventures in comics curation and the challenges of mounting a historical exhibit during a pandemic.
Thanks to Steven Brower, The Comics Journal is pleased to share this never before published interview from 2000 between cartoonist & publisher Dylan Williams and Golden Age titan, Marvin Stein.
UK Comics Laureate Hannah Berry and cartoonist Katriona Chapman talk about the financial state of making comics, the UK Comics Creators Research Report, the lack of diversity in the top earning categories and the need for expanding the comics audience beyond its current niche.
James Romberger catches up with Ralph Reese about what he’s been drawing lately.
An exclusive preview of 2020’s *second* gigantic showcase for recent small-press manga, with extensive commentary by the editors!
Cartoonist Joe Decie and cartoonist Hannah Eaton talk about horror, both folk and personal, and how that informs and appears in her work, especially the recently published Blackwood.
Robert Newsome catches up with Andy Douglas Day, whose 2020 comic Boston Corbett may be the first of its kind: a 1300 page graphic novel that takes its design cue from “a car battery”.
Cartoonist Katie Skelly and Gary Groth talk about Maids, her new graphic novel with Fantagraphics, the real murders that inspired it, and how much they both love Isabelle Huppert.
Aubrey Sitterson talks to Ian Thomas about why doing a good job was actually doing the job badly during his time with the Big Two, why his newest project is going the Kickstarter route, and what the thinks it would take for comics creators to take the power in their own field.
Adrian Tomine talks about parenting and autobiography and how they informed his most recent comic, The Loneliness of The Long Distance Cartoonist with Hillary Brown.
An expansive conversation with Stuart Immonen, whose artistic output reflects his interests: diverse, dynamic and curious. Here, he talks with Alex Dueben about his self-published work (labeled “too serious” by the biter class) and what the “Marvel method” looks like these days. Reminder: he’s not retired!
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.
Ian Thomas speaks with Sarah Lopez, Lantz Arroyo & Meher Manda about Radix Media, the Brooklyn-based, worker-owned printshop and publisher as they expand their output to include graphic novels, and explain how to make art without hewing to traditional capitalist business models.
Jeffery catches up with Kevin Mutch’s, whose recent graphic novel Rough Pearl is currently preparing longtime Mutch readers for even more, via his 400-odd page webcomic Moon Prince.
