Visiting New York Comic Con can be a fairly overwhelming experience, especially if it’s your first time. The place is huge, and if you don’t watch your step, chances are you’ll walk straight into a scantily clad faerie chick posing for a picture with a Blackhole Stormtrooper. You never what you’ll see next–case in point: [...]

[For more NYCC images, check out our Flickr set.]
Comic conventions, it seems, are the manner of event that can only be objectively viewed from a distance—or, at the very least, after a nice, long, late-afternoon nap. By Sunday, even the scantily-clad cosplay girls were wandering around, undead, in clouds of haggard disillusionment, not to mention [...]

A few blocks south of here, 3rd Ave. surrenders to the Bowery, that once farm-spotted lane that snakes its way toward the depths of lower Manhattan, ultimately petering out around Canal St., where the sites and sounds and smells of Little Italy and Chinatown forever mingle. This was the island’s long-standing bohemia holdout, a forced [...]

Do you feel that, New York? There’s something in the air. Is it springtime weather? Not quite, but it’s the next best thing. Yep, this year’s belated New York Comic Con is finally upon us, which means it’s time for another spiritual battle royal between social awkward costumed superhero fans and gleefully ironic indie kids. [...]

Someone at The Daily Cross Hatch has taken leave of their senses and asked me to write a column on the scene over here in the UK and Europe–just in the nick of time as well. Just as I finish The Watchmen for the first time. You may scoff, but I just [...]

Sure as a member of the sketch troupe Elephant Larry and the creative director of the People’s Improv Theater, Alexander Zalben is a funny guy, but as a great listener, he’s also the place where members of the comic book world turn, when we have issue. And as you can imagine, we have plenty.

[Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Stiller, Larry Storch.]
This one’s for Seymour Eisner.
Perhaps I’m just covering the wrong subject matter, but rarely, if ever—in fact, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say never—has a post ever lent itself so perfectly to a dedication for my grandfather. This is not reflection on him, [...]

Hey everyone, it’s our first birthday!
As anyone who was present at my Bar Mitzvah will gladly confirm, I’m not one for giving speeches on these sorts of occasions, so I just wanted to thank everyone who has helped us stay more or less afloat over the course of this past year.

Comics are not fine art (nor should they strive to be), but lately the fine art world has begun to awaken to the merits of its pop culture counterpart. Though full-blown acceptance of comics as an art form may be a long way off, a number of examples from the New York scene from just [...]

A panel from Adrian Tomine’s most recent book Shortcomings, published by Drawn & Quarterly.
On today’s program of Fresh Air on National Public Radio, Terry Gross will interview the illustrious Adrian Tomine. The program will be available for download HERE once the show has aired.
Drawn & Quarterly’s website offers even more news about Tomine, including [...]