Like countless others in his profession, Kim Deitch is a collector. Had, for some reason, he been unable to parlay his artistic leanings into a career for the past four decades, it wouldn’t be too difficult to imagine him as the owner of an antique store, in some cold New England state, a jovially verbose [...]

In order to properly illustrate his new project to me, Kim Deitch pulled out a handful of old leather-bound books off his shelves, old Victorian novels by Dickens and Thackery, and Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson. What the three editions have in common, beyond acting as stunning evidence of one the artist’s many cultural obsessions, is the [...]

You think you know a lot about music. You spend decades listening and collecting, discussing and trading, read and exploring new artist and genres, exploring their stories and origins—and then you have a two-hour discussion with someone like Kim Deitch, only to release the staggering number of surfaces you’ve only just begun to scratch.
Deitch knows [...]

Sarah Morean is incredibly famous for doing lots of very important things.  She is licensed to drive a car, she is responsible for feeding herself (often several times in one day) and Sarah contributes semi-regular reviews to the Daily Cross Hatch.  What you can’t possibly know about her is that she also doodles in a sketchbook and is occasionally believed [...]

When I spoke with Kim Deitch a couple of weeks ago, I off-handedly asked the artist if he might be interested in contributing a guest strip for the Cross Hatch, not expecting much in return.
Mind you, my lowered expectations had little to do with my interactions with Deitch—the artist had been incredibly kind, letting me [...]

How great is Paige Braddock? Not only did she take the time out of her work day as the licensing supremo at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates to do an interview with us (the evidence is here and here), not only did she send us an early copy (one she ran off at Kinkos herself) [...]

MariNaomi is a cool lady. She lives in San Francisco, draws comic books, and managed to squeeze two names into the space of one, a feat that has long alluded everyone from Cher to Yanni.
Best, of all, MariNaomi agreed to hook us up with some artwork drawn specifically for us, which pretty much makes her [...]

I missed you guys during my unscheduled week off—I came down with what has to be one of the extremely few cases of comics blogging withdrawal on record. Not sure how to make it up to you, but I hope this helps. Remember that interview we did with Top Shelf’s awesometastic Jeremy Tinder a couple [...]

I’m very happy to present our latest guest strip from Liz Baillie, who is best known for the webcomic Freewheel and the print comic My Brain Hurts about a group of queer, teenage punks getting in trouble with the police and flirting over loud music. She has a semi-realistic, but very comical style of drawing [...]

Welcome to the Return of the Jedi of the great, lost Hutch Owen Lebanon War strip trilogy. For those of you who missed Part One and Part Two, the story thus far is as such: Hutch Owen author, Tom Hart used to create his strip some time in advance. That strategy is fine, if you [...]