Let's All Commit Ritual Suicide!
Ordinarily, the ComiXology disclaimer that falls between the article title and its text annoys me by its placement, but here it's probably serving a pretty useful function. Because, no, I'm not...
View ArticleJeff Lemire Interview
While the DC relaunch has only just now reached its second month, one of the most obvious successes has to be Animal Man. One of the DC number ones to sell out of its first printing, the title was well...
View ArticleIt's Not Rocket Science... Oh. Wait.
Full disclosure: I'm a bit of a procrastinator. The good folks at ComiXology who post these columns know this all too well, as I inevitably submit my work about 24 hours before it's supposed to run, as...
View ArticleAn Interview with Emma T. Capps
Fourteen-year-old Emma T. Capps launched her online comic strip The Chapel Chronicles, about an outspoken 11-year-old girl named Chapel, this March. I spoke to her at her table at this year's...
View ArticleTips on How to Conduct an Interview with a Comics Creator
I've been coaching a lot of people recently on how to conduct interviews with cartoonists; I've observed a few common pitfalls for beginners, and I have some tips on how to avoid them. 1....
View ArticleAPE Reminiscences by Andrew Farago
[Note from Shaenon: This week, Andrew Farago, curator of the Cartoon Art Museum and my husband, has agreed to write a special guest column on the Alternative Press Expo, where we've exhibited together...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors: Marc-Antoine Mathieu's 3 Seconds
While reading 3 Seconds, French cartoonist Marc-Antoine Mathieu's[1] untranslated, clever (and, I would imagine, sardonic) response to the issues surrounding digital and print comics, my mind kept...
View ArticleAll the Comics in the World: Adaptations
Ever since the American comics industry essentially became a licensing arm of Hollywood, every comic imaginable, from Tintin to Marmaduke (no, seriously, remember when that happened?) has been adapted...
View ArticleWhy Daredevil Talks Like That: An Interview with Mark Waid
The way I see it, there's no better super-hero comic than Daredevil available. A consistently beautiful book with drum-tight plotting as its engine, it's the kind of comic that serves as an almost...
View ArticleTheatricality in Osamu Tezuka's Princess Knight and The Book of Human Insects
Princess Knight Part One (translated by Maya Rosewood) and The Book of Human Insects (translated by Mari Marimoto), both published in English recently by Vertical, Inc., were created by Osamu Tezuka...
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