Comics are a hybrid art form that is composed of more than the sum of its component parts. They combine the visual and the narrative, and they retain […]
Comics publishers have made attempts to move into this market [digital distribution], but with the same floundering lack of thought and cohesion that marked the music industry’s digital […]
What’s wonderful about comics is the freedom and power that you have as the individual cartoonist to shape every element of the story that you’re telling, to put […]
I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, […]
Modernism came late to comics. Cartoonists are naturally stylistic chameleons, selecting and altering visual techniques to serve their subjects. But explicitly presenting style as content? That’s always trickier.
Now the comic books themselves have gotten better and better. Because more and more top writers and top artists, who in the past might not have considered working […]
If you’re creating a strip and people are enjoying it who cares whether it’s in print or on the web. For us I think it’s more a question […]
Whatever works – retail syndication, web comics, door-to-door – cartooning is all about diversifying and finding homes for your work. You do it your way and I’ll do […]
The day I signed the contract for “Hellboy” [the movie], I went home and created a new character because, on the off chance that things turned out to […]
[…] all the sudden after “Spider-Man” [the movie], comic book writers were sexy. We didn’t live in the basement of our mother’s house anymore. We were the best […]
Comics are as healthy as they have been for over a decade. The level of story and art are at all time highs and that’s not hyperbole. As […]
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it’s just about turning into metaphor whatever’s going on in my life, […]