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Day 3 of our Summer Interview Extravaganza 2002! Evheny Osievsky sits down in Kyiv with Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Grekhov to discuss the path of cartooning in peace & war, and the changing face of political art in the social media age. With translations! https://t.co/FqEDupoPUK
Helen Chazan @gynoidsurvival reviews The Music of Marie, the first official translation of an early serial by Usamaru Furuya: “a cosmic horror manga and a social satire about nothing less than the divine feminine, an absurd and frightening concept indeed.” https://t.co/GWQKjuXLO2
A work-in-progress for over 20 years; stranded at sea for months! It’s been a long road for Keeping Two, the new graphic novel by Jordan Crane, and we’ve got all the info in a lively interview conducted by the redoubtable Katie Skelly @nurse_nurse. https://t.co/TD0RLqCBOh
Newly released from our print archives: Joseph McCabe’s enormous career-spanning interview with the artist Tim Sale, from The Comics Journal #291 (July 2008). You can read it all here: https://t.co/KY2FpM4MV3
Tasha Lowe-Newsome @TashaWords examines two books from the artist Melanie Gillman — As the Crow Flies and Stage Dreams — situating LGBTQ characters in the vast outdoor span of North America: sites of struggle with God and people. https://t.co/HgnlePNDbY
Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce praises The Nightingale That Never Sang, a first-ever English-language collection of comics by Finnish artist Juliana Hyrri: “among the best artistic evocations… of the events of childhood that I’ve ever encountered.” https://t.co/4xXZSR4NGh
RJ Casey is back for a freewheeling chat with the Bay Area’s Freak Comics @FreakComix — Cristian Castelo @rascalthecat666 , Miles MacDiarmid & Mara Ramirez — a trio of artists pursuing their own visions of art in an inclusive group setting. https://t.co/s3YfmgfEe5
Tom Shapira @tomshaps looks once again at Judge Dredd - specifically, the dystopian SF strip’s fascination with its own 45-year history, through two recent stories written by its co-creator, John Wagner. https://t.co/2o4BoXFdSj
Today! The writer and translator Matteo Gaspari debuts a new series of in-depth articles about contemporary Italian cartoonists who deserve greater recognition. First up: Giacomo Nanni, who gives narrative life to trees, cats, earthquakes and more. https://t.co/cHZxn3bV0e
It’s time once again for André Valente @andrevalente and A Cartoonist’s Diary, as he considers what we talk about when talk about the size of original comic art: the economics, the social values. https://t.co/6CWVOuNWvJ