Archive for February, 2009
Guest Strip: Chuck Forsman
In 2008, Chuck Forsman graduated from The Center for Cartooning Studies. Soon after, he won the prestigious Ignatz award for his outstanding series Snake Oil, which is up to its third issue. Unable to resist the charm of White River Junction, Forsman still lives in Vermont, and will make you a sandwich if you’re lucky. [...]
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Tags: Center for Cartooning Studies, chuck forsman, chuck mcbuck, club foot, ignatz, snake oil
Comics on Fire #1 by Paul Hack
Comics on Fire #1 by Paul Hack Self-published Paul Hack is a great name for a cartoonist. I hope he invented it for himself, but maybe he was just born lucky. Comics on Fire #1 is full of short gag comics about outerspace, science, life and household objects. Basically it’s mash-up of different styles and [...]
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Tags: comics on fire, gag comics, paul hack
Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers Edited by Craig Yoe Fantagraphics “Now Boody could write funnier than Elzie Segar,” writes Craig Yoe in his intro, “create more excitement than Milton Caniff, draw more amazing than Frank Frazetta, ink slicker than Wally Wood, make sexier girls than Dean Yeagle, letter better than Artie Simek, and [...]
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Little Nothings: The Prisoner Syndrome By Lewis Trondheim NBM He’s taken on a lot over the past decade and a half. There have been aliens and vampires and dungeons and dragons. In 2000 he wrote about the adventures of Santa Claus, and in 2001 it was the story of pint-sized king. It was the following [...]
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Tags: Lewis Trondheim, Little Nothings, NBM
A skilled craftsman by any measure, Eric Powell has put in his time all over the industry, from more independent works to superhero franchises like Batman and Superman. The Lebanon, Tennessee-based artist is, however, most content to do things on his own terms, reveling in the rare manner of freedom afforded to him by his [...]
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Tags: Bizarro, Dark Horse, David Fincher, Eric Powell, Superman, The Goon
Interview: Rob Liefeld
Rob Liefeld is seated facing the wall. Chalk it up to poor placement on Image’s part. The company’s booth at the New York Comic Con feels strangely out of the way of the flow of traffic—something one has to seek out after staring at the floor map for some time, rather than happening upon by [...]
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Tags: Image, Rob Liefeld, X-Force, Youngblood
Guest Strip: Gary Fields
Gary Fields was raised on Hanna-Barbera cartoons, MAD Magazine and Marvel Comics. For the last 25 years, he’s been a cartoonist. He started with Threat! for Fantagraphics and Superswine comics for Kaptain Keen & Kompany. He also spent 15 years at CRACKED Magazine, and made Nickelodeon comics for Marvel, and H-B and Cartoon Network comics [...]
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Tags: gary fields, katnip, kosmic katz
I’m Not From Here by Kenn Minter
I’m Not From Here by Kenn Minter Near Mint Press Modesty, dear reader, has no place in autobiographical comics. Let the demure write fiction, and sew their own experience into a quilt of monikers and fantasy and fraudulence. Fiction’s not real, but it’s readable and tasteful to some. Still, I like the grotesque honesty of [...]
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Tags: i'm not from here, kenn minter
The Cross Hatch is Two!
Sunrise, sunset. It seems like only yesterday that we gave the world exactly what it needed, yet another comics blog, but already the site has begun teething and walking. The next thing we know, it’ll be borrowing the car and raiding the liquor cabinet. Misguided childhood analogies aside, just wanted to take a brief moment [...]
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Last weekend, while the rest of New York’s geek community were off getting their Star Wars and video game fixes at Comic Con, I ventured into the hippest of all indie territories—Williamsburg, Brooklyn—to check out a show that was closing at Cinders Gallery called “Adolescent Rage.” The exhibition was the effort of Closed Caption Comics, [...]
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