You have to understand that to a boy of the 1970s, the line between comic books and real life people was hopelessly blurred. Was Steve Austin, the Six […]
Comics criticism doesn’t always have to be snobby essays about stuffy independent cartoonists from the 1970s who wrote 18000 page comics about door handles – it could be […]
‘Comics readers can be really parochial’ would be the mean way of putting it, but the fact is, comics are such a complex set of subtle visual and […]
Comics are there to maximise the visual with the minimum amount of words in the most interesting way possible.
I don’t want to include my signature in my drawings, but lack of attribution is out of control. Someone please invent a new watermark.
Comics? Not comics? It only matters in so far as it means someone will (or won’t) pick up the book and take it home.
Scriptwriters are, in many ways, writing a love letter intended to woo the artist into giving their best possible work to the job. A bored or unengaged artist […]
Anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I’m not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing […]