Tillie Walden’s ability to root the profoundly human in the dreamily fantastical and make it seem all the more recognisable and universal for those extravagant visual trappings has become one…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics event or digital…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
“Sci-fi is way not my usual thing. But look, honestly I just wanted to draw lots of stars. Space is a great excuse to draw stars. And I feel like…
From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…
Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown is a graphic novel that should work, but on many levels does not. Which is perplexing as, given…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
Gene Luen Yang tells us about Secret Coders – a new series of books that brings together his passion for art, science and teaching to create a thrilling adventure set in…
Just over 15 years ago, as Y2K and fears of global calamity faded into shameful obscurity, the world was shocked by a startling photograph taken by an Associated Press photographer, Apichart Weerawong. A…
There’s a lot of talk in the industry about getting more kids to read comics, but not a lot of solutions. Well, the creative team of Justin Zimmerman (The Killing…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
Last Man, a 12-issue maxi series, was released in France to much fanfare and is now finally available in English, courtesy of publishing house First Second. Last Man is essentially a shounen…
For the better part of two decades, James Kochalka has been honing his inimitable cartooning style across an increasingly staggering bibliography of comics work. In between, he’s found time to…
The Sculptor, Scott McCloud’s return from comics theory to narrative, has been greeted with something approaching the city-stopping ticker-tape welcomes once accorded to returning astronauts. However, for all its ambition and achievement, McCloud’s…
Scott McCloud has secured his legacy in the comic book world through his books on the theory and craft of our medium: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comic and Making Comics. He also wrote…
It’s almost Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
Avani is about to discover a whole new world of after-school adventure in Star Scouts, a new title from First Second Books. Broken Frontier has your first look at Mike Lawrence’s first solo graphic…
The intangibility of being young, the insecurities, the wonderment and the everlasting feeling of hope. It all springs eternal in the works of Canadian cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, leading…
With the release of a 300-page graphic novel, an ongoing webcomic and art contributions towards one of the most acclaimed series from Image Comics, Farel Dalrymple placed his highly original…
In the depression-era prequel to Alan’s War, cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert deftly creates a touching family memoir, an engaging piece of social history and a fitting tribute to a deep friendship….
“This Process Turned Me into a Better Cartoonist” – Theo Ellsworth on His Adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Secret Life’ for Drawn & QuarterlyOctober 18, 2021
HCZF Round-Up – Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!September 30, 2021
“We Try to Remain as True as Possible to the Original Work” – Digital Publisher Europe Comics on Bringing the Very Best of European Comics Practice to Wider AudiencesSeptember 21, 2021
“Art Should Never Be a Point of Privilege” – Nora Goldberg on the ‘Ink Well’ Exhibition Bringing Comics to the Community as Part of Hackney Comic + Zine FairSeptember 14, 2021
Inside Look: Such, Such Were the Joys – An Exclusive Creator Commentary on Pluto Press’s George Orwell Adaptation by Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime HuxtableSeptember 2, 2021
