The term “graphic novel” may have been a useful euphemism 30 years ago (it didn’t hurt when if was applied to MAUS, first published in book form in […]
Comics are the key artifacts for the modern historian attempting to understand our age, and will ultimately be considered historic art.
I love comics. I love their strange and wonderful manifestations, and the tricks and techniques that are impossible in any other media.
An unnerving number of North America’s political cartoonists are bizarrely obsessed with President Obama’s lips.
The Clark Kentish Jewish male can be seen in many spots of Yiddish literature from the late 19th century onward, in Vaudeville, silent films and so on. It […]
Comics are supposed to be an immediate art form. Developing them by committee for years and years is just goddamn ridiculous. For Christ’s sake, the entire Marvel Universe […]
If newspapers comics aren’t around anymore, because newspapers are dying out, who is going to train these kids to love comics like our generation is loving them now? […]
The only pop culture artist who could give Frank Frazetta a run for his money was Jack Kirby. These two poets of force and motion so intuitively understood […]
Jack Kirby was fabulous, even though he wasn’t a great draftsman. He didn’t paint or anything. And certainly wasn’t versatile. But boy, get that “Slam, Bang, Pow” stuff […]
It’s not much of a secret that basically all new comics are out there in the ether in digital form within a day or two of hitting the […]