Review: Guy Colwell looks at the subtle side of control
Human beings have, historically, revealed a vigorous capacity for steering other human beings away from the way they are currently living into a more...
Interview: Anya Davidson on rebellion, punk rock and ‘Band for Life’
Anya Davidson's 'Band for Life' is one of the boldest graphic novels of the year, an eye splitting trip into the lives of am indie punk rock band and their misadventures. Call it Josie and the Pussycats for the post-iTunes generation. Here Davidson talks about her own music tastes and band as well as the history of the strip and her use of color.
Review: Two tiny books with big differences between them
Nicolas by Pascal Girard
This is a deceptively simple book that takes slices from the life of creator Pascal Girard’s life that all revolve around his...
Dash Shaw’s animated film about high school to be shown at two acclaimed film...
Add comics formalist/experimenter Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button) to the list of cartoonist/movie directors: his animated film My Entire High School is Sinking Into...
SDCC ’16: Crushing the Mainstream: Love & Rockets’ Past, Present and Future
By Donald Powell
The Love & Rockets panel on Thursday at SDCC gave a bird’s eye view of the history of underground comics over the...
Video: Odenkirk, Richter and Adlon among those who appreciate Tony Millionaire’s Drinky Crow
Tony Millionaire's Maakies comic strip is still one of the glories of comics, if you like luscious linework, raucous drunken antics, the tang of...
SPX to spotlight Fantagraphics’ 40th Anniversary with Sacco, Clowes, more
If you weren't coming to SPX before, you are now: this year's edition will sotlight Fantagraphics' 40 year anniversary with a TRUE all-star line-up including: Joe Sacco, Trina Robbins, Daniel Clowes and The Hernandez Brothers, Carol Tyler, Jim Woodring, Drew Friedman and Ed Piskor.
INTERVIEW: Simon Hanselmann on MEGG AND MOGG IN AMSTERDAM – “I’m Love and Rockets-ing...
"This is a classy toilet book, a 'Paris Review toilet book.'"
Review: ‘5,000 Kilometers Per Second’ untangles relationships with elegance
In 2010 Grand Prize winner at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the Lucca Comics Festival in Italy 5,000 Km Per Second, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior...
Review: ‘Nod Away’ is human-level science fiction that looks to the big picture
The first in a projected seven-book science fiction series, Joshua W. Cotter’s Nod Away draws you in with the human drama, but keeps the science...
Are you ready for a 600 page oral history of Fantagraphics?
That was rhetorical -- of COURSE you are. At long last, after over a decade in the works, We Told You So: Comics As Art...
To do this weekend, NYC: Guido Crepax at the Scott Eder Gallery
Italian comics maestro Guide Crepax is getting what I'm willing to bet is his first ever US art exhibit this weekend at the Scott Eder Gallery in Dumbo.
