Stephanie O’Donnell is a long-established webcomic artist currently working with Greg Carter on Perfect Agent. You might know her work from the Original Nutty Funsters, or you may remember her post Part of the Problem on our own site a while back. Like many of our readers and featured interviewees, Stephanie is eager to demolish the…
Look into the eyes of a skeleton: an analysis of frenums’ skeleton comics
I’m very sorry. In this post I’m going to be doing a lot of “explaining the joke.” I hope I don’t ruin it for you. I think humour can survive me. I want to talk to you about skeleton comics. Tumblr user and cartoonist frenums‘ bio starts like this: my name is alison i’m 16 And…
News & Things: Happy Halloween!
Welcome back to News & Things! Here’s our last spooktacular link roundup before the witching hour! Read on, and we’ll see you in November! Read of The Week The New Yorker is “Watching Sondheim Watch Fun Home,” and analyzes the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s renowned graphic novel: “Sondheim’s gut-wrenching ballads come to mind, from…
WWACRadio podcast: garage band comics with Suzy X!
WWACRadio podcast! Host Claire talks to Rookie mag cartoonist SUZY X about the Best Song Ever.
WWACRadio podcast: London’s Cartoon Museum, and how to break into fandom
Claire takes her sister – not a comics fan – to the Cartoon Museum, London, for Ralph Steadman, British comics history & an interview on what comics fandom looks like from the edge of the outside.
Interview with Philippa Rice
Mixed media comics, cuteness, and cartoons: Claire talks to Philippa Rice about her webcomics My Cardboard Life and Soppy, and the process of self-publishing. Claire Napier Philippa Rice is a mixed media cartoonist and animator. Her webcomic My Cardboard Life can be found at MyCardboardLife.com or on Tumblr, where you’ve also probably seen her comic-turned-book…