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.
The artist behind Crossed, Punisher: Soviet and Providence speaks with Alex about how he ended up responsible for some of the most diabolically unsettling images of the last decade, and what it’s like to go from Alan Moore to Garth Ennis.
Coming off the heels of his collection of American President portraits, Drew Friedman has begun his next collection of historical obsession: underground cartoonists, from Z to A. (That would be from Zap to Arcade.)
A dependable, influential writer for both Marvel & DC Comics sits down with one of his biggest fans for a rapid fire journey through the hits, the misses, and the super-heroes that filled the pages: ladies and gentlemen, it’s Steve Englehart.
Keiler Roberts grapples with the place of comics and artistic creation in her life as the school year begins, and shares some coping strategies that have served her over a difficult summer.
JB Brager’s comics and zine work challenges, educates and inspires, often in equal measure. In this conversation with Ian Thomas, they talk about their earliest inspirations, the responsibilities that come with teaching and what they’ve got planned for the future.
George Horner’s comics-adjacent work is aimed at the Louvre, MOMA, and “a spinner rack in some comic book nerd’s basement man cave”, and he provides enough examples in this conversation with Mark Newgarden for any reader to make the call.
Owen Pomery’s comics combine a fascination with place, architecture and analysis, but that doesn’t mean they are intended to be sterile exercises in design. In this interview with Nicholas Burman, he explains why, for him to better express a theory of architecture, comics are “the best tool for the job”.
Initially delayed by COVID-19, Derf Backderf’s work of graphic nonfiction Kent State arrives now, even as the lessons that its subject matter once taught America about the horrific dangers of state power seem to have been horrifically forgotten. He discusses the history behind the book and how he makes comics with Irene Velentzas.
Irene convinced Tom Gauld to take a break from making books, comics, giant dice, newspaper strips and messing around with math to see what he has to say about…well, all of those things.
Brian Nicholson catches up with one of our most important (in terms of raw, awesome power) cartoonists, Lale Westvind, on her history, her work, her teaching and whether or not she’s going to keep riding motorcycles cross country.
In this conversation with Alex Dueben, Joe Sacco explains how what was originally planned as a shorter piece on climate change expanded into the excellent Paying the Land, and how he worked with the Dene of Canada’s Northwest Territory to tell their stories.
“In the early 20th century eating out was a political act. You’d choose to patronize the cafe or restaurant whose owner and clientele were in tune with your political beliefs: socialism, anarchism, vegetarianism, etc….Today, someone who thinks about the politics of where they choose to eat out will probably starve.”
Frank Young catches up with TCJ’s former editor, Dan Nadel, on the Ogden Whitney collection of romance comics he co-edited, how his upcoming biography of Robert Crumb came about, and what he’s been reading lately.
Ian Thomas speaks to Tom Scioli about the entirety of his comics career (so far), how he decides which projects he’ll tackle, how he feels about being “the Kirby guy” after all these years.
Alex Dueben’s catching up with cartoonists stuck at home, and this week, it’s George O’Connor in the hot seat to talk about gratitude, perspective, and uncertainty.
Recently retired at the age of 99, Gary Groth catches up with Al Jaffee on his career, his comics, and the things he left behind.
