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Andrew Farago @andrewfarago pens an obituary for one of the key inkers of the Silver Age of superhero comics, and a longtime artist—credited or otherwise—on serial newspaper strips. Beloved by his peers, Joe Giella died last month at the age of 94. https://t.co/CjVO9S3iED
Tom Shapira @tomshaps reviews Grip of the Kombinat, an Image release from gritty-whimsical SF/fantasy specialist Simon Roy, in collaboration with Damon Gentry: “extremely ridiculous and over-the-top, but still manages to contain that lived-in quality.” https://t.co/LZIIMmfGKc
Scholar Esther Claudio-Moreno sits down with Ana Penyas, a fascinating chronicler of contemporary Spain and the artist behind the new-in-English graphic novel We’re All Just Fine, for a discussion of art, language, politics & generational attitudes. https://t.co/kqML7rTP9X
Ben Austin-Docampo reviews All Talk, an upcoming crime comic from writer Bartosz Stzybor and artist Akeussel, set among sensitive wannabe gangsters in Berlin. https://t.co/SdBQcZeA7B
Artists in conversation today, as Shanti Rai (of the recent graphic novel Sennen from Avery Hill) interviews Reimena Yee @reimenayee, a prolific creator of webcomics and youth-focused graphic novels, whose work has been exhibited at the British Library. https://t.co/QTMK0GnMn3
Helen Chazan @GynoidSurvival reviews W the Whore, a New York Review Comics collection of works by the artist Anke Feuchtenberger, adapting texts by the writer Katrin de Vries into striking and mysterious short comics in a rapidly-evolving visual cadence. https://t.co/l2aFhUAJSK
Lane Yates @lane_lane_lane reviews Blah Blah Blah #3, the newest in Juliette Collet’s self-published series, with an eye toward the project as representing “a remarkably different, and refreshingly older style of autobiographical comics.” https://t.co/d4LLIfeBGX
Today on the site, Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce reviews issues #10-12 of So Buttons, the long-running autobio series from writer Jonathan Baylis and a host of artists. Link in bio. https://t.co/2NV4x6ibRW
Today on the site, Valerio Stivé @ValerioStive interviews artist George Wylesol about his assertively digital work, particularly last year’s 2120, an ‘interactive’ graphic novel informed by PC graphic adventure games and Japanese survival horror. https://t.co/QV4xrHU0XB
Tom Shapira @tomshaps is looking back… on his pick for best comic of 2022, Tim Hensley’s Detention No. 2, and on the 20th century, for which comics, he argues, was the emblematic art form. https://t.co/4hjN1YAAIZ