Gareth Brookes may be responsible for the first comic about historical medieval plagues that was inspired by a real life Drake related Tik Tok craze, and if he’s not, he’s certainly responsible for the first one to be made utilizing pyrography. Joe Decie catches up with the cartoonist about why Brookes keeps attacking the page…and whether he can even stop himself at this point.
Sitting down with the founder of Strangers, one of a prominent new wave of zine editors with a hand in small-press comics publishing and distribution.
The two young Canadian comics veterans, in conversation. Topics include the performance of being alive while online, the usefulness of multiple creative outlets, and expectation management.
Gearing up for the Adhouse release of his Cover Not Final, cartoonist Max Huffman catches up with Andrew Neal about growing up and past your influences, figuring out how to manage jokes in a pandemic scarred artform, and how to use Chick tracts AND Michael Mann as inspiration devices.
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.
The Ignatz-winning cartoonist and Six Chix contributor sets the record straight in a wide-ranging discussion of vision, editors, comedy, and telling the story.
Zara Slattery talks about how she took her experience in a coma (and her husband’s diary he wrote while she lay in it) and turned it into a comic, the mythology that informed its narrative, and the thick-skinned life she’s lived since the experience.
When he couldn’t find a publisher for the radical cartoons of the early 20th Century, Michael Mark Cohen took to the internet. The result, Cartooning Capitalism, remains a one-stop history and engagement lesson in the power of cartooning, and the power that cartooning depicts.
CW: This post contains explicit, drawn pornographic images. In this conversation from The Comics Journal #280 (January 2007), Frank Thorne talks about a cartooning career that ultimately spanned more than 60 years. He worked in genres such as SF, sword and sorcery and history on comic books and strips — most notably, on Marvel’s Red Sonja title — before following his bliss.
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.
A career length conversation with GB Tran, a cartoonist and educator who came to comics via super-heroes and then turned to memoir with Vietnamerica. In this conversation, he talks about how his methodical approach to artistic work, and the surprising emotional reactions readers bring to his work.
The influential artist and image-maker intent on expanding the popular interpretation of what “fantasy” implies catches us up on how he went from SVA to Dopesmoker, from MTV to psychedelia, and what he’s got planned for the future.
Alex catches up with political cartoonist Matt Lubchansky, whose Antifa Super Soldier Cookbook arrives in April. In this conversation, Lubchansky talks about making satire work, their disinterest in straight lines and Paul Verhoeven’s impeccable precognition.
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.
