When I interviewed Gilbert Hernandez, he told me that his spunky comic-book loving child-heroine Venus was going to be making her official exit from Love and Rockets in issue 20. Venus has been a favorite character of mine since the Letters from Venus serial in New Love back in the 90s, so I was understandably [...]

The end of the Lebanon War was something of a mixed blessing for Tom Hart—good because, well, it was the end of a war, and stuff. Bad, because in those days Hart tended to draw his daily Hutch Owen strip way ahead of deadline. Not the smartest approach for cartoonists tackling topical subjects with their [...]

I’m surely a little biased here, but my favorite part of fellow Astoria, NY resident (and, in the interest of full-disclosure, former coworker from the glory days of Laptop Magazine), Shayna Marchese’s webcomic, Voids, has always been her backgrounds, which never fail to remind me of my home sweet home, at the end of the [...]

When we asked Tony Millionaire to do a guest strip, he wouldn’t give us one. Nope, the bastard had to go and do us one better, by giving us an exclusive sneak peak of the cover of the upcoming Maakies collection, due on a dusty comic shop shelf near you, this May.
The thing is stunning. [...]

Why do we love Tom Hart? As if we weren’t already having enough trouble keeping track of all of the reasons, the Hutch Owen artist and sometimes School for the Visual arts instructor had to go and give us three more. Below you’ll find the first of three Hutch Owen strips that were never run, [...]

When we interviewed the legendary Skip Williamson yesterday, he touched upon his career as a painter, born of his frustration with the comics industry. He also mentioned the fact that a good many of the folks who purchased his works were fans of the strip from the old days. Williamson was kindly enough to share [...]

When we asked James Kochalka really nicely to contribute a guest strip to our site, he handed over the ridiculously awesome “How to Play Guitar.” And then, when we weren’t looking, Kochalka slipped us something else. Sure, it’s not exactly ‘exclusive’ in the same sense as the first, and it’s not actually a ‘strip’ in [...]

It’s all downhill from here. Back-to-back exclusive guest strips from Jeffery Brown and James Kochalka, two of the industry’s most-respected artists, right out of the gate? Unless we can score those outtakes from Fantagraphics’ upcoming Peanuts: The Psychedelic Years, it looks like we’re in for a lot of disappointment from here on out.
In the meantime, [...]

We are ridiculously honored to have, for our first guest strip, Top Shelf artist, and lover of all things feline, Mr. Jeffrey Brown. This strip is a b-side from Brown’s upcoming Chronicle Books collection, Cat Getting Out Of A Bag & Other Observations (Out in March). Look for the first of a two-part interview with [...]