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 […]
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 […]
Between the Panels there is Light and there is Music: A Review of INK BRICK No. 2
INK BRICK is an anthology of comics poetry; if you’re curious about poetry inspired by/written about comics, consider checking out our latest Split 7-Inch feature examining Missing You, Metropolis and MultiVerse. DANIEL ELKIN: The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley defined poetry as “a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” Later, T. S. Eliot said of the […]
Five (More) Impressions About Comics in 2014
End-of-year lists offer readers one of two things: consensus (that thing you like? You were right! Everybody agrees with everybody! Good for YOU!) or a cursor to mark a time and a place. The goal that underlies each outcome should also (maybe) point in some different or unknown direction. In other words, there is something […]