Questionable Comics is a comics creator survey series, with Dan Hill presenting sets of questions to professionals from all corners of the comics industry. Up first this week is Justin Greenwood, who has been a long time collaborator with Antony Johnston at Image and received accolades for Stumptown, his series with Greg Rucka at Oni. What […]
Less Talk, More Action: 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank is Held Back by Its Script
Despite comics being its own media language, a significant number of comics scripters operate under the curious assumption that words are the most important element of the medium. And usually the scripters that think this way seem to chiefly have non-comics influences, like Bendis and his Mamet obsession and all the sub-Bendis writers who have […]
Top of the Lake: An Interview with Lake Imago Creators Jamaica Dyer and Eddie Wright
We were very fortunate to receive an advance copy of Jamaica Dyer and Eddie Wright’s Lake Imago recently, and after reading and reviewing it we were left with a number of questions. The first issue of the comic lays out a lot of the groundwork for what will surely be a haunting and poignant pastoral horror piece […]
A Hamster in a Metal Cage: A Conversation with Laura Knetzger
An extremely talented indie comics figure, Laura Knetzger has rightfully been receiving accolades from publications like Buzzfeed and Comics Alliance for her fresh and inventive comics, ranging from more personal works like Sea Urchin to her breakout series Bug Boys, which has recently been collected by Czap Books. Christopher M. Jones chatted with Laura Knetzger recently about Bug Boys, […]
Yellowed Pages: The Residents’ Freak Show
Sometimes we just want to talk about old comics we found in bargain bins or antique stores or in our garages. Is that so wrong? In this installment, we look back at Dark Horse’s 1992 collaboration with The Residents, Freak Show, which brought together the world’s most mysterious band and an awe inspiring line-up of […]
Anatomy of a Page: Noah van Sciver’s My Hot Date, Page 12
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]