Category Archives: Comics

In late April, I was in Portland, Oregon for this year’s Stumptown Comics Festival at the suggestion of the esteemed Molly Templeton. While there, we caught a panel on comics and history featuring Kate Beaton (whose work I was familiar with) and Dylan Meconis (whose work I was not). I was intrigued by what I … Continue reading →

The good people at the Portland Mercury have a fantastic interview up with Matt Fraction, the man responsible for writing Casanova, pretty much my favorite comic book right now. There’s an equally good interview with Fraction up over at Comics Alliance, as well as this one in GQ. The last of those includes the following … Continue reading →

(All of these were picked up at MoCCA earlier in the month.) James Hindle, Little Wolves Cecil Berry, the protagonist of Little Wolves, is a children’s book author in the midst of a creative drought. A thumbnail description of Little Wolves would be to call it his search for inspiration, but that’s a little too … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I made my way to the MoCCA Festival for the first time in many, many years. (For context: the last time I was there, Craig Thompson’s Blankets was brand-new and Bryan O’Malley’s Lost at Sea was this close to coming out.) Here’s what I ended up getting while there; ah, commerce. Simon Gärdenfors, The … Continue reading →

I’ve been a fan of Scott Snyder’s writing ever since we took part in a Dollar Store Show reading at McNally Jackson a few years ago. His collection Voodoo Heart is highly recommended — Snyder understands and deconstructs irrational male anger with empathy and precision. Nowadays, Snyder has a Vertigo series in collaboration with artist … Continue reading →

Rather than the list of separate items, I’m instead linking to three takes on crime-oriented graphic novels. Two are from writer and filmmaker Adi Tantimedh as part of his Look! It Moves! column – one covering the Vertigo’s recently-launched crime imprint, the other looking at innovation in the form. And at The Savage Critics, Abhay … Continue reading →

One: Alan Jacobs, in a post titled “The Inevitable,” swats away multiple cliches concerning e-reading. It’s something of a response to this Times piece about textbooks. One highlight: …thinking and explaining can be difficult, which is why most proponents of new technologies fall back on two standard lines: (1) Human Nature Has Irreversibly Changed , … Continue reading →

At various points in the last year or so, I’ve mentioned my fondness for Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba’s Umbrella Academy comics. The news, then, that more are on their way definitely brought a smile to my face.