A panel from Adrian Tomine’s most recent book Shortcomings, published by Drawn & Quarterly.
On today’s program of Fresh Air on National Public Radio, Terry Gross will interview the illustrious Adrian Tomine. The program will be available for download HERE once the show has aired.
Drawn & Quarterly’s website offers even more news about Tomine, including [...]

The Last Musketeer
By Jason
Fantagraphics
In this age of cavalier post-modernity, we’ve become largely accustomed to artists who bandy about cultural references with little regard for their significance or where they land on paint-splattered canvases. Scanning a few back cover descriptions of Jason’s work, one could be forgiven for quickly lumping the artist into this category.
Jason’s storylines [...]

[Above, I can haz trade paperback? Below, Diz Patch.]

When it was first launched on Act-I-Vate earlier this year, Fishtown was primarily known in comics circles as the Webcomic that won–and subsequently lost–Kevin Colden a 2007 Xeric Grant.
With nearly three-fifths of the story now serialized, Fishtown has amassed a large following based on its own merits, becoming more than simply an asterisk on the [...]

 
[Above, the 13th Apostle of Woodring. Below, the one and only Dispatch]

Pinwheel
By Mike Bertino
Tender Loving Empire
There’s not much you can learn about Pinwheel from its cover. Yes, there’s a boy and a girl, but she’s not an ice queen and he never shoots lasers from his eyes. It’s not even about a polar bear (which you’ll find only on the back cover). Pinwheel is about two [...]

Midnight Sun
By Ben Towle
Slave Labor
“Midnight Sun is a work of fiction,” Ben Towle is quick to point out at the start of his afterword to this collection of his five-issue Slave Labor series. It’s an important thing to get out of the way at the top of the proceedings. After all, one could be easily [...]

Amado Rodriguez and Bud Burgy, proud editors of the Muscles and Fights line of anthology comics.
January is a pretty dull month for comics conventions. So how do cartoonists get out and see each other? They throw anthology release parties, of course.

[Above, come for Evan Dorkin's lost Eltingville pilot, stay for the Deathklok. Below, viva la Dispatch!]

One stunning graphic novel and Ignatz Award later, Tom Neely may well be remember as 2007’s alternative comics’ rookie of the year. His largely-wordless 180 page debut, The Blot, with one large, splattered stroke, established Neely as an artist with a keen eye for the form’s classic masters, like E.C. Seegar and Carl Barks, and [...]