Comics can primarily help people to rethink their political conditions, and through the power of images, they can provide new ways for people to reimagine their everyday reality.
Comics are there to maximise the visual with the minimum amount of words in the most interesting way possible. It’s like newspaper headlines done by novelists, essentially.
Popular novels don’t have a lot of ideas. Whereas comics tend to have about 20 great ideas in every issue.
Comics are much harder to write than any form that I’ve ever written. Comics call for a precise control of time. Individual panels that present a certain number […]
I’m so tired of hearing speculation as to why indy titles are published so sporadically – it’s because there’s no fucking money around you dumbasses!
Bruce Wayne is a rich man. He’s an artistocrat. Superman grew up as Clark Kent on a farm bailing hay, and he’s got a boss that shouts at […]
There’s simply a style and level of craftsmanship in the best of the Franco-Belgian classics that is nowhere to be found nowadays. If you look at a page […]
I love the old, cheap comic-book format so much because the format itself is a statement. It keeps you from becoming too pretentious. Keep it cheap and low-grade, […]
I really need to be thinking more about spreads, not pages. The spread is the “basic unit” of comics.
I live in fear of becoming a crusty older artist who’s jaded about the new stuff, and can’t abstract themselves from the situation to see that webcomics, to […]
I’m just a comic book boy There’s nothing scary to enjoy Freak admission, stroll inside I was born on a roller coaster ride Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah