Everyone’s a Critic: A roundup of comic book reviews and thinkpieces
Hiroyuki Takei's Butsu Zone Manga: It’s a Jason Thompson hat trick: The prolific editor and writer, and the author of Manga: The Complete Guide, has three recently published articles, and all are worth...
View ArticleTalking Comics with Tim | Dustin Harbin
Diary Comics 1 Dustin Harbin is a cartoonist who considers his craft and the comics industry from a pragmatic vantage point. I say pragmatic, because, to be perfectly honest, the first few questions I...
View ArticleKate Beaton’s New York Diary
The Big Apple giveth, the Big Apple taketh away: After losing what would have been her latest Hark, a Vagrant! comic strip somewhere on the streets of SoHo, cartoonist Kate Beaton made lemonade out of...
View ArticleBen Hatke talks comics, does backflips
Zita the Spacegirl creator Ben Hatke is apparently pretty new to the publicity machine, as he actually was excited to do an author appearance in a bookstore—and he chronicles his adventures in this...
View ArticlePascal Girard draws MoCCA
One of the regular features of the new Comics Journal website is a diary comic by a different creator each week. They started off with Brandon Graham, and as this week’s diarist, Pascal Girard, notes,...
View ArticleSpend the month with Gabrielle Bell
Well, make that “Gabrielle Bell’s diary.” Actually, make it “Gabrielle Bell’s diary comics.” The Lucky cartoonist has taken on the challenge of posting a diary comic every day for the month of July —...
View ArticleSDCC ’11 | Brian Ralph’s San Diego Comic-Con diary
I’ll admit it, it’s a bit of a shock to see a Brian Ralph comic that isn’t about some deceptively adorable character adventuring their way through an impeccably rendered rubble-strewn environment....
View ArticleCheck out Sarah McIntyre’s China travel diary
Sarah McIntyre is one of a group of talented British comics artists who created work for the short-lived children’s comic The DFC; McIntyre is the creator of Vern and Lettuce, a whimsical story about...
View ArticleGabrielle Bell and the incredible disappearing award-nominated webcomic
Cartoonist Gabrielle Bell spent the entire month of July posting one diary comic per day on her blog. They were very good. People, including us, got excited about them. They were even nominated for the...
View ArticleJennifer Hayden makes everyday life interesting in Rushes
One of the high points of MoCCA, at least for me, was getting acquainted with Jennifer Hayden, the author of Underwire. I love Hayden’s casual style and her good-humored approach to the large and...
View ArticleKoyama Press to publish Dustin Harbin’s Diary Comics 4
Dustin Harbin has been publishing his Diary Comics online on a more or less daily basis for some time, and Koyama Press has published the first three volumes, so this should come as no surprise: The...
View ArticleRobot 6 Q&A | James Kochalka on the end of American Elf
After 14 years, and more than 3,500 cartoons, James Kochalka is bringing his diary comic American Elf to an end. Since October 1998, Kochalka has been chronicling small slices of his daily life in...
View ArticleKoyama collects Harbin’s ‘Diary Comics’ in May
Dustin Harbin has been a ROBOT 6 favorite for a while, so we’re pleased to share some pages from his upcoming Diary Comics collection. Due from Koyama Press in May, the collection features Harbin’s...
View ArticleComics A.M. | Comic aims to get toy guns off the streets
Comics | More than 3,000 copies of the comic book Brink City Special Edition: Kids Lives Matter will be distributed to children in Cleveland to promote gun safety and encourage toy gun buy-back...
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