This year has seen no shortage of comics-related events and exhibitions, but the occasion most likely to have a long term impact is the opening of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University.
The founding partners of the influential and popular independent comics festival discuss—and dispute—the reasons for its sudden demise.
On comics complaints, women in comics, and various approaches to public engagement.
A visit to the NY Art Book Fair complete with people watching, nostalgia and horse meat.
Tom Spurgeon moderates Kate Beaton, Jason Shiga, Brecht Evens, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer and Matthew Holm, and Nate Powell.
Everything that was MoCCA — its collection, its educational programming, its logo, its heavily attended annual festival — has been subsumed, and will reportedly continue, under the auspices of the Society of Illustrators.
PW Comics World co-editor Calvin Reid talks to Susie Cagle, Andy Warner, Stan Mack, Ed Piskor, Dan Carino, and Chris Butcher about using the comics medium for journalism. Filmed by Justin Bloch and David McCloud.
A report on the sudden news.
“Comics: Philosophy & Practice” gathered seventeen luminaries of the medium to discuss what it all means.
Neal Adams, Ivan Brunetti, Geof Darrow, and J.J. Sedelmaier discuss comics at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How the museum has been able to survive, why building a permanent collect has not been a high priority, and why Klein left the museum and New York.
For better or worse, MoCCA is the high-water mark for the level of respectability that comic art has been able to carve out for itself in its home town.
One of the best festivals of the past decade. Of course, some problems persist.
The most eloquently curated comics show I’ve seen since the fantastic Masters of European Comics in 2001.
The Art Spiegelman retrospective in the Castro building is amazing.
A brief interview with Warren Bernard on the new project with The Library of Congress, which will formally archive both the festival itself and many of the comics it annually features.
Cartoonists including Chester Brown, Seymour Chwast, Eric Drooker, Joyce Farmer, and Craig Thompson talk about the graphic novel medium.
Douglas Wolk moderates Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages) and Greg Rucka (Stumptown) as they talk about first pages of comics. Filmed by Justin Bloch.
Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez talk about Love & Rockets and Citizen Rex; moderated by Kristy Valenti.
Mark Evanier moderates Jean Bails, Paul Levitz, Dick and Pat Lupoff, Richard Kyle, Bill Schelly, Roy Thomas and Maggie Thompson as they discuss the origins and history of comics fandom.
Just a few months after the Comics Code met its less than grisly fate, the U.S. Supreme Court cited the anti-comics crusade of the 1950s as an example of misguided censorship.
What is in the archives? Has the CMAA actually dissolved?
A look at the legalities surrounding the end of the Comics Magazine Association of America.
The current comic biz conundrum.
