All throughout Kaare Andrews’ Renato Jones: The One% are flashback sequences made to look “old” through the use of color halftone effects and old paper textures. It’s digitally crafted nostalgia, achieved effortlessly and with little thought, simply dialed in as needed, which is fitting considering Renato Jones itself is more or less the same. An artless hodge podge […]
Quit Embarrassing Me: Pete Toms Explores Family Awkwardness in Dad’s Weekend
I don’t remember the exact first time my dad embarrassed me. There are too many early memories to choose from. Maybe it was the time he tried to cut my hair by himself while my mom was away and I had to get my head shaved to fix it. Or maybe it was the time […]
Dystopic Homesick Blues: Martha Washington
I started this column figuring hoping I’d write entries in it building up to election day, then use it to look back at the reality we narrowly avoided. That didn’t exactly go as planned. Instead, I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that I now live in a dystopia and decide whether it’s […]
Questionable Comics: Alex Paknadel and Danny Djeljosevic
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. This week Dan spoke to two people who are very close to us at Loser City (one of whom co-publishes our site, even). Up first is Alex Paknadel, a dear friend of Loser City who […]
Comics Should Be Decent: A Discourse About Discourse
Nick Hanover: The other day, Abhay Khosla mentioned Loser City in a post about why comics don’t really excite him anymore. (We were in there as an example as people he thinks are okay and still talking about the scene in interesting ways.) It’s a messy but worthwhile read about his frustrations with the industry […]
Questionable Comics: Valentin Ramon and Christopher Peterson
Valentin Ramon is a Spanish artist who frequently collaborates with Ryan Ferrier, including the breakout office drone series D4VE and the newer miniseries Hot Damn, which just came out in trade. What current projects are you working on? Sleep Inertia Pilot with Mark Bertolini, which is currently being Kickstarted. Use one word to describe how you work. Messy. […]
AD: After Death Brings Out the Best in Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
As we hurtle ourselves closer and closer to ecological destruction, countless pieces of cautionary fiction about our bad behavior are emerging. Many of these works buffer pessimism for our future with optimism about our problem solving abilities, like the chic and methodical Arrival, but some works are a bit more realistic in tone if not narrative. Scott […]
Waking Up: Alex + Ada and Non-Human Personhood
Fiction has no shortage of stand-ins for the human fear of losing our place at the top of the evolutionary ladder, but as we hurtle closer and closer towards creating sentient artificial intelligence, androids have become the stand-in of choice. While Westworld is currently the trendy and needlessly brutal representation of this, Jonathan Luna and Sara […]
Questionable Comics: Naomi Franquiz and Eric Zawadzki
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. First up is Naomi Franquiz, a multimedia artist who is featured in the queer women of color anthology Power & Magic and has been self-releasing a number of incredible short works. What current projects are […]
Comics Needs to Stop Viewing Support Strictly in Financial Terms
Yesterday, Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing/Executive Editor Tom Brevoort weighed in on the harassment that caused Mockingbird writer and New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Cain to leave Twitter, suggesting the support that Chelsea Cain and other targeted creatives really need is more issue sales: It’s a frustrating response to a complicated problem that’s made all […]
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