The handle ‘@birdsofmainecomic’ on Instagram has over 450 posts and a little over 7,400 followers. Each panel gets hundreds of likes, and Michael DeForge’s bio for the comic promises a…
In 2017, Martine van Elk, professor of English at California State University, published a comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It documented responses by women to…
Storytellers use the world they inhabit to shape the stories they choose to tell. When looked at from this perspective, there is nothing particularly weird about Rumi Hara’s stories, despite…
There are moments in every memoir involving a certain kind of trauma where one can sense the writer reaching deep within to find something worth holding on to. Those moments…
Nostalgia is a tricky thing, painting the past to be a lot rosier than it often is. That overriding scepticism comes to the fore whenever the great Lynda Barry approves…
There is something extremely perceptive about Luke Healy’s response to a question about what he expects readers to take away from his work. He says he wants them to make…
School libraries in America banned more books in 2021 than ever before. Adding to this disturbing fact is the possibility that the LGBTQ+ community in that country is under attack….
A colostomy involves the creation of an opening for the colon through the abdomen. The cartoonist Matthew Thurber refers to it as something in the body that passes out in…
There is an early panel in Time Zone J where a version of Roy Lichtenstein’s 1962 pop art painting, Kiss II, appears to show up. One isn’t quite sure about…
It is impossible to read Emily Carrington’s graphic memoir, Our Little Secret, dispassionately. The pages are weighed down by her documentation of a traumatic personal history, but so many panels…
To immerse oneself in a book by Darryl Cunningham is the equivalent of signing up for a history lesson by a particularly engaging lecturer. This isn’t only because of his…
It sometimes feels as if Jeff VanderMeer lives in a world far removed from our own. The American writer was once referred to ‘the weird Thoreau’ and even a cursory…
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association published a worrying report on the health of millennials in 2019, revealing a 12% increase in major depression amongst that demographic. The data showed…
Would you pick up a book titled ‘Better Stay Up All Night Before Starting That New Job’? Imagine an unadorned cover, part of a series, the books all lined up…
It’s hard to explain why Wendy, the awkward, funny millennial created by artist Walter Scott not so long ago, continues to be so relatable. She has played a starring role…
The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was once asked a series of questions by other artists from around the world, one of which came from German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘In free…
Writing about family is possibly the easiest thing to do, and the hardest. For the artist Weng Pixin, it was an opportunity to try and understand her mother, and the…
Guy Delisle sounds exactly the way one imagines he would. The thought popped into my mind seconds after his quiet voice echoed on the phone from the South of France,…
“I Felt an Instant Connection with Bernie” – Joe D’Esposito on His Krigstein Graphic Biography ‘The Outsider’ and His Affinity with the Legendary EC Comics ArtistAugust 7, 2026
“The Creative Process is Always to Mine for Something Vibrant Inside of Me” – Jesse Moynihan on His Epic Saga ‘Forming’ and Working on One Continuous Narrative for a Decade and a HalfAugust 4, 2026
“Without ‘A1’ and ‘Deadline’, We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics” – Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in ‘A1 Deadline’July 21, 2026
“I Want to Enjoy the Process without the Pressure of Pleasing Other People” – Henry McCausland on ‘Eight-Lane Runaways’, ‘River Rangers’ and Comics as a Physical ExperienceJuly 7, 2026
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
