There’s this Comedy Bang! Bang! bit where Scott Aukerman is telling Reggie Watts about some new films he’s going to be in this summer. All of them are named after an innocuous phrase that they take extremely literally, like An Apple a Day, and as Aukerman goes on they get more and more absurd. I bring this […]
Questionable Comics: Christopher Sebela and Ryan Ferrier
Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience. First up today is Twitter sensation comics writer Christopher Sebela, who has accumulated credits at most of the major comics publishers, including Boom, Oni, Image and Marvel. What current projects are you working on? […]
Questionable Comics: Justin Greenwood and Tristan Jones
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 […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 1, 100-81
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]
A Different Taste for Every Tongue: Exploring a Love of Craft in James Stokoe’s Wonton Soup
Written and Drawn by James Stokoe Published by Oni Press I have this aunt who used to invite me over for dinner and a movie on Friday nights my last year of high school. I’m sure it seems pretty fucking nerdy to be a high school senior who favors movie nights with a relative, […]
Anatomy of a Page: The Secret History of DB Cooper #1, pg. 21
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 in Loser City that we’re calling anatomy of a page, in which we explore […]