Cartoon art is the craft of reuniting the word and the picture, using the drawing itself as communication more than as cold representation.
In superhero comics, people can literally get away with anything, as long as they can think of it and find somebody who can draw it.
What would you do if you could be invisible for a day? Or fly? Shrink down to ant-size, read minds, pull the world off its hinges? Superhero comics […]
What do these [superhero] stories actually mean? I read all these Image comics about these apocalyptic confrontations and the nature of good and evil – are they saying […]
Nothing irks me as a sign that comic shops have calcified to their detriment as much as the fact that so many still seem to be specifically resistant […]
One look at Superman, and you know what’s in front of you is the fictional embodiment of a myriad of American myths of values and formation.
It’s not that comics don’t exist as items that are marketed; they do. But they also exist as a vehicle for ideas, for stories, and that almost never […]
Stan Lee was the master of that he rarely gets credit for was to make people believe in some of the most absurd premises in the history of […]
Some graphic novels are just expensive comic books, but ideally they should offer something different.
I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas, [now I want to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You […]
Comics are more energetic, more vital than novels. They are these seductive visual tracts, they are fast.