It’s interesting that somebody might decide suddenly that we [cartoonists] have a social significance or not. But, we’re not in business for that purpose. We’re in business to […]
Like [Alan] Moore, I’m just not seeing very many cartoonists writing and drawing the graphic novels that are going to carry the banner for comics-as-art or comics-as-literature into […]
I used to read comics, Batman, Superman, Mickey Mouse, Little Lulu, The Archies. All of those were translated into Spanish. These were the first notions I was having […]
As comic books are a perfect medium for serial fiction, there is often the temptation to keep running a comic book series long after it’s lived out its […]
For me, the only essential question of a superhero universe – and a good superhero story – is not “How did that happen?” or “Why did that happen?” […]
I think comics are like fake magic. To keep itself entertaining, it creates a secret device, and we are not creating comics out of supernatural power. Sometimes there […]
Not being able to play games when I was a kid, I developed defenses. I’d say, “I hate sports, I’m going to go to the movies, or stay […]
I’d come to Paris to work on a bande dessinée; it wasn’t a form I could have fooled with in New York, where serious comics for adults were […]
Condescended to by critics as juvenile fare, American comic books have long existed in a cultural limbo,that is until Hollywood began turning superheroes into movie stars.
The status of comic books in the world of artists’ books is awkward, because comic books are arguably the most successful verbi-visual book form with which artists of […]
It’s odd, but the art world denigrates illustration and comic strips. A year ago, the French magazine Beaux-Arts published some stories about the comic strip festival held in […]