Interviews

For the past few days there has been a kerfuffle in the extremely high profile, glamourous and profitable world of comics journalism. Rather than comment on this hot mess, I'm going to talk about why it happened. And what we an do to improve things.

In re the last piece, here's a direct link to my first piece for Slate in which I investigate the comics/cartoon connection with quotes...

"I hope that...when people read PREZ, they'll have a laugh. Then, the next week, when someone has sex with a pig...they say 'wait a second, that sounds familiar.'"

Guys, if you want to get with a woman, do not make her watch Buffalo 66. I repeat, do not watch Buffalo 66 with your woman. I know you think Vincent Gallo is really cool and edgy and it's a romantic film about vengeance and attraction, but it's really about a dangerous psychopath made by a serial abuser who imagines a toxic fantasy of a willing female victim. It is total creepsville plus everyone misses a field goal now and then, just like Jeurys Familia gives up a home run once a year and it happens to be in the World Series.

A talk about drawing as exploration and play.

In the quiet early hours of Saturday in New York Comic-Con's press lounge, Marjorie Liu chatted with The Beat about her new Image title "Monstress" with artist Sana Takeda, systemic racism, the expectations places on creators of color, and the intergenerational trauma of war.

FACT: I don’t make much money in comics. I only make enough to survive. However… I still love making comics. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not crying...

The How to Train Your Dragons franchise is one of the biggest critical successes in animation from the last decade.  Spawning two movies and three...

by Alex Dueben Jessica Abel has produced a unique body of work in comics that ranges from two collections of her award winning comic series...

Jim Zub, easily my most-interviewed creator, is on a tear lately. In addition to wonderful corporate-owned work like Figment, he more than stuck the...

by Alex Dueben For the past few years Maggie Thrash has been writing fiction and nonfiction at the acclaimed Rookie Magazine. Her first book, Honor...

At New York Comic Con last week, The Beat's Lindsey Morris chatted with Wes Craig about his current comics life - what it's like to spend your days elbow-deep in teenage assassins, angst, and violence.