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UnendedJosh Bayer gave himself an interesting creative challenge with Unended : adapting his late father’s unfinished play into a comic. In the process...
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Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk RampageIn Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage , pseudonymous multi-hyphenate Pierre La Police , who’s been kicking around the French comics scene...
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“It’s A Cliché, But I Write What I Know”: An Interview with Gareth A. Hopkins, Abstract CartoonistPhoto courtesy of Gareth A. Hopkins. If the role of art is renewal, revelation in the meeting point between artist and reader, then the...
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A Power Not Seen for Thousands of Years – This Week’s LinksA fair amount of commentary this week on Disney unilaterally foisting one of 2024’s Legends awards, posthumously, on Steve...
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Alex Graham talks The Devil’s Grin and becoming a full-time cartoonist: “I’m so happy.”Alex Graham. Photo by Jacquelene Cohen. Alex Graham doesn’t leave her house or see other people often. “And that’s the way that I prefer...
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When the Line Gets Interesting: Tanioka Yasuji and Sugiura Shigeru“Sen no omoshiorsa: Tanioka Yasuji to Sugiura Shigeru” Chapter 5 from Manga wa naze omoshiroi no ka: sono hyōgen to bunpō ( Why Is Manga So...
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AshesWhen popular Spanish cartoonist Álvaro Ortiz’s debut graphic novel, Ashes , arrived in English at the beginning of 2023, it was clear to me the...
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Feeding GhostsFeeding Ghosts opens in 2016 with author Tessa Hulls and her mother traveling through China, enduring the usual awkwardness and hostilities...
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“I’ve Rediscovered A Mode Of Expression That Was Important To Me As A Kid”: A Talk with Jordan MechnerJordan Mechner, drawn by Jordan Mechner. In the world of computer gaming, Jordan Mechner is a legend: the designer of groundbreaking...
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Beware the Ides of March – This Week’s LinksAhhh, the changing of the clocks, ushering in the changing of the season, watching for those delightful two weeks of the year where pollen...
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Fielder #2So, I’m sorry, what was I saying? Ah, yes, Kevin Huizenga. Easy enough for the mind to wander, these days. After conducting a mental inventory it...
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Arrivals and Departures – March 2024In what is now the third month of the year, I’m going to review three comics by three artists I was previously unfamiliar with before I read...
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Sunset Falls on Sunset Park: Joseph Koch on Closing his Comics WarehouseJoseph Koch. It seemed to emerge almost by accident, the vast warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. That was always a part of its charm,...
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¡Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil WarIt would seem that the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) would be an excellent setting for comics. It served as precursor to World War II and...
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Polar Vortex: A Family MemoirThe overall arc of cartoonist Denise Dorrance ’s graphic memoir is straightforward: Dorrance’s mother is suffering from dementia and needs to go...
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The War on Gaza – 3.12.24This is the sixth installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.” The post The War on Gaza – 3.12.24 appeared first on The Comics...
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Artists in Conversation: Lucy Knisley Interviews Lonnie MannLucy Knisley (left) and Lonnie Mann (right). INTRODUCTION BY LUCY KNISLEY There’s a scene in Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox...
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Winds of March – This Week’s LinksAnother World Book Day come and gone, as countless children across the world trudged to their place of education dressed as the literary...
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Penthouse Comics #1Upon hearing the news, current as of May 1816, of the order’s restoration by Pope Pius VII, John Adams remarked in a letter to Thomas Jefferson ,...
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Notes on A Cultural History of the Punisher Last things first. In the conclusion to comics scholar Kent Worcester’s recent A Cultural History of the Punisher (Intellect Ltd., 2023),...
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Il nome della rosa Vol. 1 (of 2)The January 2022 issue of linus magazine announced that Milo Manara, Italian maestro of erotic comics, was working on an adaptation of the novel...
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How Ville Ranta Conquered FranceVille Ranta in Angoulême, during the famous comics festival, January 2024. Photo by Robert Aman. Introduction Ville Ranta’s homepage...
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Second Verse, Same As The First – This Week’s LinksI spent my downtime this week flicking back-and-forth between reading the first volume of Taiyō Matsumoto’s Tokyo These Days , and...
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Malcy Duff’s I Don’t Know What I’m DoingIntroduction "The Uncertain Man and his Trusty Steed" was a comic created for a lecture I delivered at the Burren College of Art on...
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Milky WayI’m sorry, there is simply no honest way to talk about this comic without evoking truly gross language. “Mommy milkers” may be the most odious...
