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Mensa Level 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Well, Tim is on vacation this week so I’ll try to steer this ship solo. Today on the site Joe McCulloch will regale you with tales of new comics along with a sure-footed digression. Elsewhere on the ...
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/28/13 – Scenes from the Development of a Photorealist) 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Jean-Claude Claeys published his first comics story in 1975, in the pages of the French magazine Emmanuelle. His first collected comics album, Whisky’s Dreams, was released by Éditions du Cygne in 197...
Gallons to Go 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Today on the site: R.C. Harvey profiles and interviews longtime, multi-career cartoonist Dick Locher. Here’s Locher on the beginning of his time with Dick Tracy: Harvey: What did you do on the strip...
The Locher Legend 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Dick Locher retired from the second of his life-long cartooning careers in May 2013. He retired from his other life-long cartooning career two years earlier. Locher is one of the merest handful of new...
Cackles 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Today on the site Carter Scholz returns to review Dash Shaw’s New School. The most radically innovative feature of New School is its thick overlays of color that at times all but obscure the drawing ...
New School 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
It is not always clear that artists seek clarity. In Dash Shaw’s first extended comic, Bottomless Belly Button, three generations of a family on vacation learn that the patriarch and matriarch are, a...
Journal 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
On the first page of her Journal, French-Canadian artist Julie Delporte writes, “Here we go. We’ve decided not to live together any more. I’m experimenting with colours as we’re experimenting with new...
The Shallow End 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Today in Riff Raff, Frank Santoro explains what will happen when you try to sell your comic book collection. Louie was astonished. He showed us old X-Men comics that had $15 price tags on them. Comic...
American Pickers 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
So, my buddy Spahr and I drove out to see our friend’s uncle. Uncle Louie. He was trying to sell his son’s comic book collection. The son, Tommy, left the collection with his dad. And now the dad, Lou...
Trash Fun 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Today on the site Tom Scioli rejoins us with a close look at Silver Surfer #1 (1968): Silver Surfer #1 is a comic worth examining closely. It has a lot of things colliding at once. It’s the straw tha...
