History

  The NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium is a weekly series of lectures organized by the great Ben Katchor covering a vast range of topics on comics...

Jack T. Chick, whose religious tract comics inspired revulsion and mirth– along with some faith, I'm sure -- passed away over the wekeend at...

Monsters Unleashed is Marvel's first big event of 2017, with the Avengers, the Champions, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the X-Men, the Inhumans and the rest going up against hordes of giant monsters. You'll need little more than that to sell you on the idea, but it's written by Cullen Bunn with art by Steve McNiven, Leinil Yu, Adam Kubert, Greg Land and Salvador Larocca.

Speaking of politics, one of the strangest stories this year has been the appropriation of Pepe the Frog as a symbol for white supremacist...

Why did the early Batman villain The Monk disappear from his rogue's gallery?

Over the weekend at SPX I had the extreme pleasure of interviewing Trina Robbins and meeting Rebecca Wilson, one of the original contributors to...

At the end of the month, the thriving scene of artists studios centered in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn will be no more. As reported last year (but not imediately connected to the comics world) a massive collection of old warehouses that have been turned into artists studios, in the classic NYC sense, are now being turned into...well condos, probably. The area is located near the toxic Gowanus Canal and not considered safe for habitation but that won't stop anyone. Maybe a bank or a organic dog treat store or a prozen yogurt shop will open up.

Oh yeah, speaking of zines (look it up kids) something called The Poopsheet Foundation is now online, and it's one of those 90s things...

Artist Trevor von Eeden has a secure place in comics history for a couple of reasons. First, he was one of the most distinct...

Historian letterer Todd Klein has the essential obit for Gaspar Saladino, pointing out how influential he was in so many things. Maybe Gaspar will...

I was honored to participate in this NPR piece on the late Kim Yale produced by Neda Ulaby. Yale co-wrote many DC stories with...

Milt Snapinn! Todd Klein is not only a letterer of renown, he's a comics historian and he's just begun a history of the DC Comics Offices 1982-1991 with photos, a seating chart and photos of staffers in all their 80s glory.