§ Nice art: Julia Gfrörer’s art has always been obsessed with the sea so her comic (with Andy Warner) about about rescuing refugees at sea is both beautiful and harrowing. § It’s that time of year when I do my annual huge cleanup. I wrote about this seven years ago at about the same time […]
Review – Julia Gfrörer’s Laid Waste is a Hopefully Pessimistic Read
The moment that affected me the most in Julia Gfrörer’s incredibly bleak comic Laid Waste happens after a group of children are seen carrying on duties at the family farm. They milk the cows, they feed them and will most likely tend to the soil. The oldest child talk about honouring their father by dealing […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/24/18: Advice for life
§ Nice Art: Victoria “Rollergirl” Jamieson has a comics strip entitled Back-to-School Blues in the NY Times that many may relate to. § Here’s an excellent twitter thread by Julia Gfrörer that offers succinct career advice: I gave this advice to my friend last night, and now I'm giving it to you: you've got to just […]
Eleanor Davis, Julia Gfrörer and more in this years New York Comics Symposium killer line-up
MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, renaissance man and all time great cartoonist Ben Katchor is not busy enough being a certified G(enius). He also organized the New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium every week in the school year at Parsons, where he teaches. Every week someone from the world of comics or imagery scholarship presents a […]
31 Days of Halloween: Julia Gfrörer’s spooky T-shirt are your perfect seasonal garb
Julia Gfrörer’s comics are always readable, but they are Halloween worthy as well, featuring dark, medieval tales of death and loss. And for Halloween she’s posting new t-shirt designs daily based on her haunting art. You can peruse the whole line up in th links but she’s posting new designs every day on Twitter as well. […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/29/17: Preordering is just ordering
I’ve got a lot to say about preordering, All Time Comics, Smurfs, the Fourth Disruption and Steve McQueen, and by god, I’m going to say it.
2dcloud Launches Stellar Spring 2017 Crowdfunding Effort to Publish Gothic, Poetic and Owls Comics
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher from which you never know what to expect. They keep selecting new and innovative work to publish that always defy and […]
Reviews: Gfrörer, Wiedeman, Gennis look to the past
Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer This excruciatingly sad novella has Julia Gfrörer examining the horror of being a survivor, in a way that manages to be uplifting at the end, while not betraying the heaviness of all that proceeds it. Laid Waste concerns itself with Agnes who, it is said, had a vision of St. […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/27/16: Stephen King, George RR Martin and Neil Gaiman walk into a writer’s workshop…
§ Webcomic of the day: “Your lack Friend” by Ben Passmore. Just read it. It’s an excerpt of a longer work that will be sold at MICE in Boston, Ripexpo in Providence and NOCAZ Fest in New Orleans, and available online from .Radiator Comics. § This kept coming into my inbox: a Spidey Zine […]
Twitter bans indie cartoonist who fought back against abusive tweets
UPDATE: Gfrorer’s account has been reinstated but I’ll leave this up as a cautionary tale. Twitter has had a harassment problem for a long time. Like, a loooooooong time. Something about the impersonal format gives free reign to any and all disgusting behavior. I myself—along with several other women in comics—was the target of a […]