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Read it and Weep: The Cartoon Crier
TweetBY JEN VAUGHN – Read it and weep! Go have yourself a good cry (probably at a Disney movie). In the tradition of occasionally free newsprint tabloid comics like the one-shot Caboose and quarterly...
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The Center for Cartoon Studies spits out good cartoonists like a volcano...
Today is a day to send shout-outs to the Center for Cartoon Studies, located in White River Junction, VT and recognize it’s many good deeds. While my shout out should be a loving essay on how teaching...
View ArticleTonight and this weekend: Short Run Festival in Seattle
The year in indie comics shows isn’t over yet! The Short Run Festival in Seattle kicks off with a library talk tonight and continues with events parties and exhibits on Saturday at the Fisher...
View ArticleReview: Melissa Mendes’‘Lou’ charts family dynamics in a charming, honest way
Massachusetts cartoonist Melissa Mendes has a knack for comics that not only center on kids, but present the world from their points of view with an unromantic honesty. Her first major work, the Freddy...
View ArticleReview: Bernadou, Varela, Mendes deliver three strong works
Canopy by Karine Bernadou Bernadou’s excellent silent parable of what it’s like to be a woman out in the world follows Canopy from her childhood — symbolically presented as a continual act of nursing...
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Can’t Lose: Indie Cartoonists cover Friday Night Lights
I’ll admit, I wasn’t expecting a show about small town football culture to be a subject of nostalgia for indie cartoonists, but, hey, this is the social context I was moaning for the other day. Plus...
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