Newspapers have definitely gone downhill […] A big mistake was downgrading the comics so that they are run so small one can barely read them, and eliminating continued […]
The thing I find most fascinating about him [Jeff Brown] is they’re supposed to be autobiographical comics, but they’re clearly not. Also, these relationship comics are a lie. […]
There’s an old adage in comics that says “every issue is someone’s first”. What that means is that every issue should, to some degree, give a new reader […]
It’s awesome that the comics medium is so conducive to frenetic storytelling. And as hard as that makes drawing comics, it also makes comics more fun to draw.
Writing comics is far more fun, and faaaaaaaar less time-consuming (and hence, technically far more lucrative), than actually drawing them.
While some mainstream comics fans (i.e., superhero fans) certainly do react with knee-jerk, sneering, overweening contempt and disdain at any hint of the so-called “manga style,” I have […]
Reading a comic book is as a complex semiotic process – it involves understanding how the interactions between words and images have been manipulated in order to achieve […]
What are Webcomics? Nobody knows. In the same way that “comics” is just such an utterly wrong label for what the comic is, “Webcomics” doesn’t get close to […]
By the time I got to college I wanted to be a fine artist, and the emphasis is on fine. I mean I wanted to have nothing to […]
The issue [Captain America #50] shows us a Captain America willing to do whatever it takes to live up to his responsibilities; it shows that superhero comics are […]
Kids today really don’t read comics much anymore. In fact, they barely read anything except for the instructions to a video game.
It’s difficult to admit artistic duplicity. A cartoonist who does cinema just doesn’t fit into any of the boxes.