Weighing in at an impressive 5.2 pounds, Madman Gargantua lives up to its lofty name in just about every way imaginable. The 852 pages anthology gives Mike Allred’s stylized superhero send up the tribute it truly deserves, helping secure the series’s place as one of alternative comics’ greatest and most enduring works—just in case anyone [...]

When she’s not toiling over books like La Perdida and the forthcoming Life Sucks, Jessica Abel can be found on the more academic side of sequential art, teaching courses alongside her husband and fellow cartoonist, Matt Madden, at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts.
Abel and Madden have taken their course loads a step further this year, [...]

Now is a exciting moment in the world of Charles Berberian and Philippe Dupuy. Released in an English translation on Drawn & Quarterly in 2006, Maybe Later gave readers the rare opportunity to view the artists’ work independently of one another, a chance repeated once again with the release of Dupuy’s solo book Haunted, earlier [...]

[Above: a cowardly Kanary Kid fleeing from a band of bees set to sting.  Alliteration never looked so good.]
Did Tim Sievert caucus last month? Whom would he vote for? Are you his favorite cartoonist? What is his relationship with the sea? And who is the Kanary Kid?  Learn all these things and more in the [...]

Between the award-winning series Artbabe, the 2006 Pantheon graphic novel La Perdida, and several years spent teaching at Manhattan’s School for the Visual Arts, alongside her husband and fellow cartoonist, Matt Madden, Jessica Abel has been busy making a name for herself in numerous facets of the cartooning world since first emerging on the scene [...]

The time for more Tim Sievert is now!
If you’re in the Twin Cities this weekend, maybe you’d like to shake the man’s hand. Sievert and Lars Martinson will be signing at Big Brain Comics this Saturday, March 29th, from 4-7 PM, celebrating the recent release of Sievert’s book That Salty Air and Martinson’s [...]

Who do you profile first then?
Do you put the best foot forward, or do you help your mates out? Anyone who’s in a position to do so and claims not to help their friends out is being dishonest. Luckily, due to less than adequate social skills, no patience for bad comics, and [...]

Artists Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian have charmed European comics audiences for decades with the continuing adventures of Monsieur Jean, the tale of a successful novelist living in Paris. Based largely on the artists’ own experience, the series has been hailed for its keen ability to betray the subtle nuances of modern life.
Haunted, a rare [...]

Day job or no, Julia Wertz keeps busy. The first collection of her thrice-weekly Webcomic, Fart Party arrived toward the end of last year on Atomic Books, soon making its way onto several year end lists for its frank but hilarious portray of Wertz’s own dysfunctional existence.
Now the artists is already talking about its successor, [...]

Tim Sievert: cartoonist, model, MCAD grad, man. [Scanned from a ~2006 Minneapolis College of Art & Design promotional postcard.]
I thought it would be difficult to get a straight answer from Tim Sievert if I asked him something personal. He’d be funny and charming as usual, but still private and illusive, even under investigation.
That’s [...]