Though as I recall his “new story” in the Drawn & Quarterly 25th anniversary book / Uluru impersonator was just the few pages of an intended 24-page story that he’d managed to complete in the previous five years, so nobody go rushing to add Peepshow #15 to their standing orders. (The previous issue came out […]
Monthly Archives: March 2019
born standing up, going out emailing
For the last two decades, Steve Martin has chosen to write funny only in miniature, with tiny performance bits on Letterman, or one-or-two page Shouts & Murmurs in The New Yorker. Staying in the latter but going even smaller, Martin has started writing gag cartoons for Harry Bliss. With this as the only example so […]
old-timier Seth
Before he locked in his mid-20th century aesthetic of interests, clothing, art and living environments, exemplified in the It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken graphic novel, Canadian cartoonist Seth was just as stylised in his look, but fitting young urban art scenes of the 1980s. The first two issues of his Palookaville series […]
Nostradamus’ beard!
Pretty impressive how Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill managed to have this summary of the Mueller Report written, drawn, printed and in shops just days after AG William Barr’s version!
guns
Nate Powell’s essay-in-comics About Face was published on Popula a month ago, and has been echoing with me since. An examination of how American violence culture has merged lawlessness and rectitude, nondescriptness and visual marketing, rebellion and conformity through his life, it’s compellingly drawn in bold lines and water-colours. His brushwork is personal enough to […]
lost legacy
In 2018, for the first time in the history of newspaper comic strips, we saw a worthwhile legacy strip. Usually on the death of a successful cartoonist, the syndicate will engage new artists, writers or cartoonists to carry on the valuable “intellectual property.” Sometimes these might rise to the level of general competence. Never have […]
Seattle in the 1970s, by Neal Adams
Tipped off by an interview with Bill Schelly regarding his new biography of Warren publisher James Warren, I went hunting this story he likened to Feiffer’s Little Murders: They could deal with stories and themes that one could see on The Twilight Zone TV show—which was certainly at a higher level than what a kid […]
you used to call me on my self own
Kelly Kanayama classifying G-Moz readers on twitter: If your favourite Grant Morrison comic is A Glass Of Water, you: -still enjoy liking things not everyone has read-prefer comics to be drawn by people who can write their own comics, even when they’re just drawing-think that stapled anthology comics from the ’90s are probably the apex […]
cancel culture has gone too far
Here’s Iron Circus publisher Spike Trotman offering a clarification on twitter: And… idk, I can get Americans not really getting what Viz is, or seeing a couple of Johnny Fartpants or Buster Gonad one-page strips from the ’80s and concluding that it’s all juvenile toilet humour. But edgelord? Trolling for shock value, to one-up competitors? […]
we appreciate water
How has it taken seven years after Oblivion for me to learn that Grimes used to work at Drawn & Quarterly, and once built her own houseboat named after a Dan Clowes serial, in order to sail down the Mississippi? They made it several metres before it turned out that she and her boyfriend had […]