If the Eisner Awards are akin to the Academy Awards of the comics world, then the Ignatz Awards, presented at the annual Small Press Expo, is akin to the Sundance Film Festival. You’ll see some of the same professionals you see in mainstream comics (and many you haven’t…yet), but these projects are different. They’re innovative. Personal….
Play Dress-Up With Moomin! Weekend Polyvore Fun
There are some gorgeous Moomin-themed apparel lines out there, and despite misgivings I can’t help but want to bury myself in them and hibernate. A lot of these lines come via Japan, and the latest is no different: Moomins have landed at UNIQLO. I have waved my Moominous flag all over this site before, but allow…
Accolades and Imprisonment for Cartoonists in Iran
Political cartoons can be subversive, pointing out weaknesses in government organizations and leadership. Iran is a country with an especially deep cultural history of political cartooning. It’s so integral there that the municipality of Tehran even sponsors the House of Cartoon, which hosts exhibits and education in cartooning, hoping for cross-cultural events which mix Iranian cartoonists’ work…
Newspaper Comics: How We Met Them and Where We’d Like to See Them Go
For many of us Millennials and older, newspaper comics were our first experience with sequential art. But that may be changing. While school and alternative newspaper comics used to be a way for cartoonists to break into making comics professionally or to having a syndicated strip, these days, budding creators are more likely to start out on…
Where I Began: Kids’ Comics That Left Impressions
B & V & Lex Makes Three I read my first comic book when I was six or seven years old. It was a Betty & Veronica Double Digest, and I first noticed it sitting on a newsstand at the grocery store. I asked my Grandma if I could read it, thinking she would say…
Political Cartooning With Joe Dator: Clean Lines and Jokes
At first, I thought I really did not like artist Joe Dator. My initial assumption was that he was sexist and took easy shots like so many other political cartoonists. Honestly, these thoughts were based almost entirely off the the first cartoon of his that I saw, which was this one:
Documentary Review: She Makes Comics
Lately, the fight to prove that the comic book industry can no longer be considered a boys club has picked up, but, it turns out, this whole boys club business is a fairly recent concept. Women have always been involved in the comic book and comic strip industry, and the documentary, She Makes Comics, proves…
Life Geek! 11/13/14-11/26/14
Life Geek! is our bi-weekly lifestyle feature where we offer readers a glimpse into our geeky lives. Desiree Rodriguez I’ve recently been working on a new comic resources site, and I’m almost finished! Decided the site needed some ‘me’ in there so I took some selfies of my favorite t-shirt, Nightwing. Got this baby at…
Kid Comics Go to Class: Math Problems
I hate math. Do not even come near me with talk of logarithms, imaginary numbers, or cosines. Making my way through math classes was like a miserable walk up a hill on a muggy, bug-infested day. Even now, the only math problems I can wrap my head around are story problems. Give me a narrative…
Chicago Zinester Interview: Meghan Ansbach
I had the recent pleasure of exchanging emails with Jersey Shore native, now-Chicagoan zinester Meghan Ansbach. I came across her zine “Everything is Better in Chicago” and adored her way of sharing her thought process on the page.
Cook Your Comics: Becky Cloonan’s Magic Zucchini Friendship Bread
I get excited anytime I see a recipe in a comic book, because then I get to take “cook your comics” semi-literally. Comic creator Becky Cloonan (Wolves, American Virgin, Conan the Barbarian) recently cartooned her experience with making this bread and giving it to friends (which is why it’s friendship bread!) after a bumper crop…
Wonder Woman Newspaper Comics Collected
A few years after Wonder Woman appeared on the comic scene she was featured in her very own newspaper strip. It ran from May 1 1943 until December 1 1944 and was written by William Moulton Marston, with art by Harry G Peters. And now for the first time ever those strips are available in…
