Fairbanks: I stopped by Katie Skelly’s table at SPX 2015 and bought a copy of… basically everything, having only seen her art and heard your glowing reviews of her work. So why don’t we start with that: what is it about Skelly’s work that causes her to stand out so prominently amid the great sea […]
Questionable Comics: Katie Skelly and Sarah Horrocks
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 surveyed Katie Skelly and Sarah Horrocks, two incredible indie comics creators who also co-host a podcast called Trash Twins and collaborated on Agent #73. Up first is Katie Skelly, who releases most […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Five, 20-1
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 […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Three, 60-41
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 […]
Till the Blood Runs Red: Katie Skelly’s My Pretty Vampire
Katie Skelly hits all the ‘feels.’ Her comics bristle with verve, emotion and an ‘it’ factor best expressed as je ne sais quoi. What’s easier, by far, to say (and see) is how she has honed her craft. Skelly is a cartoonist on the rise as her peers have confirmed. With Nurse Nurse, her 2012 […]
Erotic Agents, Multiverses and Pop Assassins: 10 Comics We Loved This Year
We’re a bunch of culture geeks here at Loser City, which means we love nothing so much as conformity, lists, and faux definitive rankings of things. With that in mind, this month we’re bringing you our Loser City Best Ofs, lists on lists on lists of our picks for top video games, comics, and everything […]