I just posted a new comic on my website. It is called ‘Empty’ and you should go read it. I hope you enjoy it; please me let know what you think. I finished this one quite a while ago, but for a number of reasons it took me forever to get it online. In other […]
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I just re-listened to this panel (courtesy of the Comics Journal) on the Best American Comics Criticism book (a collection of comics criticism from 2000 to 2008 edited by Ben Schwartz and published by Fantagraphics) for the second or third time since it was first posted. While everyone on the panel has intelligent things to […]
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This is great. I really enjoy a lot of Clowes’ early comics for exactly this reason – a tone of violent disdain and even hate that permeates almost all of his work from that time. This has, it seems to me, morphed in his recent stuff into a more subdued, complex disdain that is less […]
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One of my favorite pages from Tom Herpich’s Gongwanadon comic. I love stuff like this that explores the boundaries of what comics are and can be. Also, you should really make an effort to track down Gongwanadon and Cusp, both of which collect several of Tom’s short stories. You can get them for cheap on […]
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“Drawn in 1991. The orignal is pretty small–4 inches by 5 inches, drawn with a magic marker. I remember it was one of the few things at the time (I was 19 yrs old) which I drew and liked. Inspired by Chester Brown’s version of the Gnostic Gospel story in which Jesus splits into two […]
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I don’t know much about Felix Vallotton, but his woodcuts are incredibly composed. Great use of black that reminds me of Jaime Hernandez’s work.
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The first page of Blutch’s Vitesse Moderne. I feel like this might be him showing off a little – “Come on, give me a building, any building. I’ll draw it better than you ever could!”
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Writing lists is fun, and I decided on a whim to write up some convention panels that I would organize if I had the power to do that sort of thing. I allowed myself access to any creator who might conceivably attend an American comic convention (so Steve Ditko is off limits, for instance), and […]
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It always surprises me how few people outside of Europe have heard of Swiss cartoonist Zep. His most well known work by far is Titeuf, a page from which is shown above. I would say that it’s probably behind only Asterix and Tintin in terms of name recognition among the general public in French-speaking Europe […]
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That’s me carefully examining the entirety of the original art for Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt’s second Corto Maltese adventure, Ballad of the Salt Sea (you can’t see all of it in the photo, of course) as presented at the Pinacotheque museum in Paris, France. It was pretty great. I will hopefully get around to writing […]