Earlier this year, artist Julia Warren independently published an edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with her new illustrations, surreal digital collages with rich color and a fitting dream-like quality. She corresponded with me extensively to answer my many questions about her inspirations and process.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Timmy Heague, Danielle Paige and Michael Northrop of Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror
If you’re not ready to give up spooky season, then maybe Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror is the Archie title for you! If you love a haunted doll, keep reading to see our exclusive interview!
INTERVIEW: Writing Comics Scripts with Jamila Rowser: Part One
On June 10, after news hit Twitter (well, the website now formerly known as Twitter) that artist and animator Ian McGinty had passed away at 38, cartoonist Shivana Sookdeo started the hashtag #ComicsBrokeMe. Stories poured onto social media via the hashtag, revealing how overworked, underpaid, and exploited artists are in both comics and animation. As…
INTERVIEW: Sabir Pirzada on Ms. Marvel, Mutants, and More
Fresh off the publication of Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1, I got the chance to talk to the comic’s co-writer Sabir Pirzada, about working with the onscreen Kamala Khan, Iman Vellani, and writing for comics and television across his career (including the Disney+ Marvel Studios Ms. Marvel and Moon Knight series). In addition to…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Bite-Sized Archie’s Ron Cacace and Vincent Lovallo
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INTERVIEW: Tracy White Illuminates the Saga of Asylum-Seeking Teens in Unaccompanied
In Unaccompanied: Brave Stories of Teenagers Seeking Asylum, cartoonist Tracy White presents stories of migrant teens reaching the United States without parents, and going through the legal process of pleading their asylum cases here. Varied and harrowing, these stories illuminate the terrible situations these kids flee, and the system they need to navigate on arrival….
INTERVIEW: Ben Wilgus chats about Grace Needs Space!
Grace Needs Space! is an immersive and heartening graphic novel about a kid traveling in space in a realistic far future! I, an extremely lucky person, have been friends with the writer Ben Wilgus since college. I got to ask him a bunch of questions about creating Grace, her moms, and the futuristic spacefaring world…
INTERVIEW: Anni K. on Transfusions
Anni K. has been creating comics in some capacity since she was young. In 2010, she started her ongoing webcomic Transfusions, which tells the love story between media student Dylan and young vampire Joa. Here, Anni K. discusses getting her start in comics, her preference towards digital comics, and some of the ideas that have…
INTERVIEW: Alex de Campi on Reversal
Reversal by Alex de Campi (writing and letters), Skylar Patridge (inks) and Kelly Fitzpatrick (colors) launched on Webtoon in March 2022. The urban-fantasy webcomic, following a middle schooler with chronic pain and her family’s struggles to deal with the violent aftereffects of magic suddenly returning to the ordinary world. Writer Alex de Campi answered WWAC’s…
INTERVIEW: Exaheva Talks Interactive Storytelling and Queerness in Still Heroes
Brussels-based artist Exaheva recently released her interactive digital comic Still Heroes, a tender story of self-discovery that experiments with reader agency in visual storytelling. Readers follow main character Emeline’s struggles after her superhero group suddenly disbands and she finds herself lost for direction. Though seemingly a superhero narrative, Still Heroes touches on intimate experiences with…
ECCC 2023: An Interview With Steenz About That Washington Post Gig
Between my turning in a draft for last week’s Previously and the article’s running, Scott Adam’s fall from grace escalated, with Andrews McMeel Syndication dropping the creator entirely. Subsequently came the announcement that the vacated position formerly occupied by Dilbert at the Washington Post would be filled instead by Heart of the City, the strip created…
Editorial Eye: Interview With Karen Berger
In our Editorial Eye series, we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work. Karen Berger is running the show at Berger Books, and that’s great for comics. In February, I had the…
