We sat down with La Perdida artist, Jessica Abel, to talk about two forthcoming First Second releases, Life Sucks and Drawing Words & Writing Pictures. Thanks in large part to our extremely short attention span, this third and final installment almost immediately turns into a discussion about her now-infamous “Stinky Date” with Peter Bagge. Also: [...]

[Something that speaks both the French language and the language of Math. I am utterly lost to each.]
A well-liked man of many talents, Kevin Cannon will be the featured artist at this Friday’s Lutefisk Sushi Volume C release party. Much of his artwork will be on display, including comic pages from Far Arden [...]

I’ve finally achieved one of my New Years resolutions: not being hung over on a Monday. While this meant I crammed a weekend’s worth of binge drinking into Friday night, it paid off, as I’m now in ship-shape and Bristol fashion, looking forward to a field trip to OK Comics in Leeds.
Due to a [...]

By the end of my conversation with Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian, the two cartoonists are on the sort of roll that requires little guidance from their interviewer, a fact that seemingly reflects both their decades of brilliant work in the field and the fact that they have worked so closely together, for so long. [...]

[Shanks in a full-on tussle with some pretty mean dudes. Nearby, a lady cries.]
It began as a half-crazy idea for a contest.
A man, Steven Stwalley, accepts the 24-hour comics day challenge three years in a row, but he begins to feel restless. By 2006, he starts to form ideas. Concepts so bold and [...]

When you spend a good deal of time discussing work with alternative comics creators, the subject of superhero books is broached on a fairly regular basis. After all, most of us in the scene grew up on costumed exploits, and as far removed as we might consider ourselves from the genre, we all seem to [...]

[Pictured l to r: Scott McCloud, Douglas Rushkoff, and moderator, Marianne Petit.]
New York’s third annual Comic Con marked another largescale celebration of geekdom, in its countless, oft-divergent manifestations. For all of the fanfare around Red Hulks and virtual worlds and maddeningly enigmatic 30 second movie trailers, for the attendees of a small but packed downstairs [...]

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 [...]