Culture

Towards the end of his life, witnessing the rise of the graphic novel as a format, Will Eisner commented on the fact that his...

Kickstarter has been a talking point in the comics industry ever since its conception, most recently and prominently for the fallout between Mark Andrew Smith and...

Relish by Lucy Knisley First Second A few years ago, if you were told about the rise of the Internet and asked to predict one of...

Cartoonist Nate Powell (left) along with Rep. John Lewis and writer Andrew Aydin—all collaborators on the upcoming graphic novel March—walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma AL, March 2013, where in 1965 600 marchers protesting for civil rights, among them Lewis, were tear gassed and beaten with clubs by police.

The 90-year-old creator of NonNonBa, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, and such yokai masterpieces as GeGeGe no chows down with relish. As recounted in...

This is an announcement of vital import and historic significance!

Feeling adventurous I journeyed out to an unfamiliar part of Bushwick last night for an opening night party for the new issue of World War 3 Illustrated. Founded in 1980, this comics magazine has been charting politics, struggle, and social causes around the world for more than 30 years. The latest issue's theme is "The Other," surely a propitious one. I've yet to read the whole issue but the parts presented last night were quite striking.

STRIP SEARCH, the reality show about a house full of cartoonists competing for $15K and a year of "being embedded" at Penny Arcade, debuted earlier this week. You can watch the first episode above and the second episode is now up as well. The show is produced by the Penny Arcade crew, with Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins as judges. (They ran a half million dollar Kickstarter to fund the show last year) 12 cartoonists -- six male, six female, are flown to a house in Seattle to compete for the prize, in the classic format. The 12, chosen from a thousand entrants, are mostly webcomickers, but more on that in a bit.

If you've been following me on the internet for any length of time, you know I have always been obsessed with finding the perfect refreshing drink, whether it's long gone Pepsi Blue, Code Red, Ca Phe Sua instant coffee, Starbuck's much missed Tazo Berry Chai, Dunkin Donuts' Mango Fruit Blast and so on. Well, here is a new one, the Bai5 line of antioxidant waters. I was describing my favorite flavor, Congo Pear, the other day and said "It's got real pear juice and coffee fruit and white tea extract! It's a water-based drink!" to which someone replied "So it's pear-flavored coffee tea water?"

Following yesterday's much quoted post on wanting to be hired, artist Jerry Ordway responded to the outpouring of support with more on the perils of exclusives and the freelancers life:

Anyone who has ever worked with Fernando Ruiz or benefitted from his teaching skills knows what a seriously impressive contributor he is to the...

In keeping with the court's schedule, yesterday Marc Toberoff filed his response to DC's summary judgment motion in the Superman/Superboy lawsuits. Toberoff has filed...