When it comes down to it, comics are one of the most labor-intensive and skills-intensive art forms there are.
A lot of boy cartoonists, especially, manage to have a crew who also do comics or like comics with whom they can figure stuff out. I never had […]
It appears to me that this new generation wants to get some “fun” back into the medium and that they aren’t all that interested in producing “long and […]
When I first read of Hergé’s troubles, years ago, I was not surprised. It seems an archetypal cartoonist story. The fact that this depression became fodder for his […]
A cartoonist has a very isolated job. You sit in a room with yourself everyday, all day. You have to come to some sort of truce with yourself. […]
The history of cartooning is mostly the history of famous cartoon “characters” – not powerful or meaningful stories.
I find that the longer the period is between actually working on a comic strip, the more likely I am to be depressed.
Whenever I hear someone say they met someone who doesn’t know how to read a comic book I am always perplexed.
I personally have no need to make a strict definition of the medium. I am more interested in what can be done with comics than how it can […]
Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited – in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators, some stories would be shockingly bad, […]
Images have more immediate impact than words, and it is not every reader who can be convinced to relax into experiencing the work for what it is – […]
My feeling is that most paintings, most films, most music, most literature and, indeed, most comics fail as “Art”.
There was [in Angoulême, France] a huge bust of Hergé’s head in the middle of an open square. He’s smiling, but he doesn’t look genuinely happy. He seems […]
I’m always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don’t – this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.