Speaking with the Sensei
Miss the Toronto Comic Arts Festival? That’s okay. Deb Aoki has a really nice long interview between Adrian Tomine and Yoshihiro Tatsumi. And some questions she asked Tatsumi-sensei herself.
Portrait of the Artist (with the Sound of Cicadas)
Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s A Drifting Life is all the proof anyone would ever need that comics can be serious art. It will show up at the top of year end lists and on syllabi. The fanciest of blurbs will be written about it. Comic fans will hound the unsuspecting […]
Clean, White and Saved
“Wonderfully retro and absurdly ethnocentric art depicting an idealized American empire on Earth and in Heaven from Bible Readings for the Home (Pacific Press Publishing Associates, 1963),” scans at Lady, That’s My Skull.
Slog Scans
Scans of Dave McKean’s artwork for The Slog (written by David Almond) look a little slicker than his work for Neil Gaiman on Punch and Judy and The Sandman.
The Brain-Twitter Interface
The Brain-Twitter Interface lets your brain send tweets.
If You Could Turn Back Time
You remember the ending of the original Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve, directed by Richard Donner: Superman, too late to save Lois Lane, flies around the world at tremendous speed, reversing events so he can have another chance to save her. The facts seem straightforward, but I find […]
The Cultural Gutter 