A classic bumper catch-up edition of this (and last) week’s links, below, as I return from Scotland with an average daily step count of 17,000, an average daily Irn Bru count of 1, an average daily ...

Oh, Vertigo. Back once again, I see. Just like Kim Novak. Or perhaps merely a chance resemblance. Or perhaps its would be more accurate to say, he founded their horror line. Prior to Orlando’s arrival ...

At the fanzine convention Corflu 41, held in Las Vegas in 2024, writer Sandra Bond asked Ted White, then 86, if there was anything he wished he could have done that he hadn’t yet. His answer was ...

In the early summer of 1974, a Legion of Super-Heroes fan named Harry Broertjes, the editor of a homemade magazine called the Legion Outpost, made a phone call from New York to Pittsburgh to speak to ...

Gerry Conway poses for a photo at a Montreal convention in 2018. Photo by Laura Conway. Clipping from the Herald-Times showing Conway giving his 1972 talk. Still, it must be admitted, the article in ...

Marjane Satrapi (Marjan Ebrahimi), whose death at 56 was announced June 4, was a highly atypical artist. Her incredible life embraced numerous cultures, languages and traumas. At 12, she was cowering ...

Starting in 1991, Drew Hayes wrote, illustrated, and — for the first 20 issues — published, Poison Elves, a dark fantasy series chronicling the life and times of a frequently down-on-his-luck elf ...

“No dictator is displeased by cartoons showing his terrible person stalking through blood and mud…What he does not want to get around is the idea he is an ass, which is really damaging.”-David Low, ...

Opening page from "Nejishiki," as collected in the eponymous volume by Drawn and Quarterly. All English translations here are by Ryan Holmberg unless otherwise specified. I had a conversation the ...

Longtime Marvel artist Sal Buscema, passed away this past Friday, two days shy of his 90th birthday. Buscema was not as flashily virtuosic as some fan-favorite pencilers, but he had a keen instinct ...

Peter David, the writer known for a long and inventive run on The Incredible Hulk, his copious work on Star Trek comics and licensed novels, and a bewildering number of comics, prose stories, ...

Harold Schechter and Eric Powell’s graphic biography of Dr. Fredric Wertham — the great bogeyman of comic book history — is sympathetically (and beautifully) illustrated and includes sincere attempts ...