Everyone has been so kind to us at the Cross Hatch, we’d like to do something for you. But first, you’ve gotta work for it.
In honor of Guy Fawkes Night, the Daily Cross Hatch has teamed up with Fantagraphics for a very special Daily Cross Hatch Guy Fawkes Holiday Spectacular! What does that mean to [...]

Good-bye San Francisco Review Part 1.
By Julia Wertz

What the fuck?
–Brian Heater

Good-bye San Francisco Review Part 2.
By Julia Wertz
Sorry. Got my sincerity wires crossed for a moment. I’m trying my best to refrain from delving too far into Vice Magazine territory for this one, but there’s something about Fart Party girl’s momentary lapse into heart-on-her-sleeve sentimentality [...]

It took 50 years, but Laika finally learned how to speak. The first living creature to enter the earth’s orbit found her medium, in the form of Nick Abadzis, a veteran British comic artist and children’s book author.
The book, which borrows its name from the first space dog, tells her tale pitch perfectly, in a [...]

Astronaut Elementary Lessons 5-10
by Dave Roman
Cryptic Press
Something about minicomics has been troubling me lately.
I read comics and you read comics, but when I go to conventions, I don’t see much evidence that kids are reading comics. Is it possible that the world of alternative comics is too focused on creating adult content?
If this is [...]

Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
By Frederik Peeters
Houghton Mifflin
Even after books like Maus and Persepolis and Fun Home and Our Cancer Year, there surely still exists a pervasive sentiment that there are still certain topics that can’t be effectively tackled in the comics medium. After all, we’re talking about a small handful of relatively high-profile [...]

Zak Sally observes his pal John Porcellino talk at Big Brain Comics in Minneapolis, the first stop on Porcellino’s King-Cat promo tour.
There’s only one opportunity left to catch John Porcellino on his recent book tour, but we’ve got the Q & A session from his first stop in Minneapolis for anyone who’s missed [...]

I Killed Adolph Hitler
By Jason
Fantagraphics
Maybe the most famous, and certainly the most apt thing ever written about the late author, Richard Brautigan, was penned by a critic at the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. It read, in part, “perhaps, when we are very old, people will write ‘Brautigans,’ just as we now write novels.”
I [...]

A co-founder of the art collective, Actus Tragicus, Rutu Modan has been a fixture in the Israeli comics scene since the mid-90s, receiving all manner of praise for her work in that medium and for the magazine work that she has been producing for more than 15 years. Released earlier this year, her first [...]

Dear dorks in the greater New York City area: ready to geek it up, nerd style? I’m going to be guest starring on The People’s Improv Theater’s Comic Book Club, next week. It claims to be the only live weekly talk show about comics, and while it’s likely that not too many other people are [...]