Process

The ASIFA blog asks one of the great ineffable questions, "Who invented the three-fingered hand?" An essay by animation legend Grim Natwick explains: Someone way back in the dark ages of animation got tired...

Cartoonist and SVA teacher Nick Bertozzi posts the results of some homework. His comics storytelling class was assigned the test of adapting a story by O. Henry. The results can now be seen...

Today's "It Kids" of snark and anti-establishmentarianism, Tucker and Nina Stone, are interviewed by Chris Mautner at Blog@Newsarama. Depending on your point of view, you will find them to be ultra-haters or honest proponents...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEh4SWTbgU8&hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=344] Watch legendary illustrater Bob Staake create this week's New Yorker cover in this video. Apparently his process is quite amazing, according to Drawn! Thanks in part to YouTube, author and illustrator Bob Staake...

Reader Pepo points us to this site, with examples of recolored Moebius. On the top, Yves Chaland; below, Valerie Beltran. This is not as bad as the stuff we posted yesterday, but it's still...problematic. Any...

UPDATE: Thanks to the corrections offered in the gentle manner that the Internet is known for, we've corrected the credits for the above weirdness -- even if it was the wrong book, the coloring...

Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published by Gemstone. It's here - a ten-volume hardback set collecting Carl...

There's a handsome new hardcover edition of THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland out, featuring remastered color by Bolland. PopCultureShock has done a side by side on the color, and some...

Shonen Jump editor in chief Masahiko Ibaraki recalls his career, including the early years: Each editor is assigned a mangaka to work with. The first mangaka assigned to me was Akira Miyashita. I feel as...

Tony Lee's He's Only A Writer column at Comics Bulletin surveys a bunch of folks, including Lee Nordling, Andy Schmidt, Rob Levin, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Keith Giffen, Andrew Foley and even (gasp) The Beat...

Speaking of SPLAT, the New York Post (!) previews the event with a cheeky lede: BESIDES all the usual dreams young people move to New York to chase - singing, acting, sleeping with...

New York Mag's Vulture bloginterviews Jeff Smith today and they bring up where he sees himself on the spectrum of comics: This fall, a mini-debate popped up on comics Websites about the Best American...