AltWeeklies Wire
Comic Book Heroes: Madison Has Produced Greats of Graphic Storytellingnew
From lefty cartoonists to cutting-edge illustrators, underground comix got a start here.
Q&A with Bryan Lee O'Malley of Scott Pilgrim Booksnew
O'Malley is the 29-year-old creator of the popular comic book series that integrates familiar Gen Y tropes with fantasy elements borrowed from video games.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallet |
05-09-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Julie Doucet Exposes Herself in '365 Days'new
Doucet's visual diary 365 Days is an intimate look into the minutiae of everything she went through over a full year.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
05-02-2008 |
Nonfiction
History Lessons, Courtesy of Nicholson Baker and Howard Zinnnew
Human Smoke is itself a kind of reference work: a series of short reports -- some only a paragraph long and most of them drawn from newspaper accounts, diaries, documents, letters, memoirs, memos, and public speeches, with Baker doing the assembling and providing the timeline and context.
The Memphis Flyer |
Leonard Gill |
04-25-2008 |
Nonfiction
Portland: Comic Meccanew
So by now everyone in Portland knows that, to quote one of the most cliched newspaper headlines ever, "comics aren't just for kids anymore."
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
04-24-2008 |
Books
Comically Disinclinednew
Here's a selection of comic books for those who don't care for comics.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tim Kreider |
09-28-2005 |
Fiction
Super Erosnew
A slash fiction writer gives up her secret identity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-28-2005 |
Original Work
Dark Artsnew
Comics master Charles Burns digs deeper in Black Hole.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tom Chalkley |
09-28-2005 |
Fiction
