Battling Boy, the most recent work by cartoonist Paul Pope, arrived from First Second Books last year, although I was…
Comics Grab Bag
1) Fair warning to the seizure-prone, Jen Lee has just completed the first chapter of her post-apocalyptic webcomic, THUNDERPAW, and…
Comics Works: An Interview with Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell is a California-raised cartoonist living in Brooklyn. The Voyeurs, her latest collection of autobiographical comics and the first…
“I think happiness is overrated.”
A nice, relatively brief interview with Chris Ware that is worth watching for two reasons— (1) It spotlights Chris Ware,…
Comics Works: Kramer’s Ergot 8
Kramer’s Ergot 8, the latest volume in artist/editor Sammy Harkham’s anthology series, collects works from high-profile comics figures such as…
Comics Works: Keeping Two
For the last couple years, Jordan Crane has been rolling out his story ‘Keeping Two’ at art comics clearing house…
Daybreak, Brian Ralph (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011)
Republished late last year as a single-volume graphic novel, Daybreak was originally released in three parts between ’06 and ’08,…
Mortality and Flatulence: a Conversation with Luca Dipierro
I first saw Luca Dipierro’s work in an animation he’d made for a book of short stories by Dawn Raffel. It was…
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 8
Already in this set of posts we’ve looked at Frank Miller’s career before The Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 and…
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, and superhero movies (every one)
[You want to read the earlier installments, and we want to help you: Part 1, Part 2] [Drumming our fingers…