Ryan Holmberg reads Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s Black Blizzard closely with Tatsumi’s memoir, A Drifting Life, and discovers Black Blizzard is an adaptation of pulp mystery writer Shimada Kazuo’s story, “Black Rainbow,” then puts Tatsumi’s work in the context of other mass entertainment of its time. The piece itself is […]
The Atlantic interviews author Beverly Cleary, probably most famous for her Ramona books and pairs the interview with a literary pilgrimage to Cleary’s homes.
The Montreal Gazette interviews cartoonist Chester Brown about his book, Paying For It, his graphic memoir of his days as a john.
Ten minute mini-documentary about women in comics and the Toronto Koffler Centre exhibit, “Graphic Detail: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women” featuring artists Sarah Lightman, Nina Bunjevac and Gutter friend Shannon Gerrard. (via @BlackComix)
“For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise … and step into the shadow now without complaint.” –Rohrshach’s journal (Alan Moore, Watchmen) I read Watchmen as many people do, without knowing the comics history Moore invoked. In a story that begins as a superhero […]
“Wanting to be a cooler, beer-drinking, girl-bedding kind of guy, I stopped playing D&D when I went to college. There was shame in them thar imaginary hills. So I shelved that yearning for fantasy heroics, which looked so weak and antisocial. I told myself, You don’t need D&D […]
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