One of my chief struggles with comics fandom throughout adulthood has been the reflexive defensiveness of established pros and traditional fans against criticism and attempts at pushing progress. It’s not something I’m entirely unfamiliar with outside of comics, anyone with a punk adolescence should also be familiar with the phenomenon, ditto anyone with even a […]
Dicks Hate Comics: Airboy is Entourage for Middle Aged Comics Creators
A while back, my man Danny “Dicks” Djeljosevic wrote up a column making one very simple argument: Comics Needs More Dicks. Danny immediately made it clear in the piece that he meant that in the literal anatomical sense, not in the sense of “‘dick’ as in ‘guy who’s a jerk,’” because as is still true […]
Artificial Imagination: Is Nonplayer #2 Worth Four Years of Waiting?
Woe is the massively delayed follow-up to a widely beloved debut. No one wants to toil for a half a decade only to reemerge with a second Second Coming. But comics seems relatively immune to that phenomena, doesn’t it? By my recknoning, the closest we’ve got is Big Numbers, though that’s really more of a “lost work,” so maybe […]
Loser City on the Web: Elkin on Sex Coven, Muncy gets 404sight, Hennum on, well, everything
We felt so bad about skipping out on our round-ups of where everyone is writing that we decided to double up this week. So without further ado… Daniel Elkin went down south. As in New Zealand. Or at least on the interwebs he did. Joining up with the crew at Faction Comics for their Factional section, […]
The Other Side of the Mirror: Questions and Reflections in Material #1
As high schoolers, my friends and I used to play this game. The way the game worked was that one of us would message a different friend, someone who wasn’t clued into the game, and emulate a chatterbot, testing how long it took for the other person to catch on that we were in fact […]
We’re Going to Make Drugs Cool Again: An Interview with Ed Brisson
Ed Brisson is a comics lifer, a solid guy whose name I first recognized through his lettering work. Lettering doesn’t get you a lot of recognition in comics most of the time, but I noticed that Ed’s name was in the credits of a number of indie comics that got me excited. So naturally I […]
Advance Review: The Mantle Proves Punk Rock Isn’t Dead
There’s a quote from a bitter old crank that goes “punk rock died when the first kid said punk’s not dead.” Call it Reverse Tinkerbellism, a cynicism so heavy it states belief itself is enough to kill a movement; clap your hands, say oi, clap your hands, drop dead. But punk can’t really ever die, […]
The Last Joe Casey Interview, Part Two
You might not know it, but Joe Casey is probably the most successful creator in comics. His name doesn’t result in as many fan squeals as, say, Alan Moore or Grant Morrison, but unlike those two, he still approaches the medium with genuine enthusiasm and curiosity rather than outright disdain and boredom. And unlike the […]
The Last Joe Casey Interview, Part One
You might not know it, but Joe Casey is probably the most successful creator in comics. His name doesn’t result in as many fan squeals as, say, Alan Moore or Grant Morrison, but unlike those two, he still approaches the medium with genuine enthusiasm and curiosity rather than outright disdain and boredom. And unlike the […]
Holographic Hope: Ales Kot Opens Up in a Big Way with The Surface
The Surface #1 Written by Ales Kot Drawn by Langdon Foss Colored by Jordie Bellaire Designed by Tom Muller Lettered by Clayton Cowles Published by Image Comics The thing about Ales Kot, comics’ current game changing hip priest, is that he’s both cynical and hopeful. More specifically, Kot is a trippy writer who is nonetheless […]
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