At the annual comics conference at the University of Florida held earlier this spring, Stephanie Boluk spoke with two of the guest artists.
You may be surprised to learn that comics, not film, not TV, or even video games, have been subject to the strictest self-imposed censorship of…
At our annual conference on comics at the University of Florida, Recess cartoonist Stephanie Boluk spoke with the artist Dylan Horrocks.
Earlier this spring, Susan Raab caught up with the artist Brian Selznick and talked with him about his latest picture book/graphic novel, The Invention of Hugo…
It’s a wonderful coincidence that one of the early practitioners of the comic strip, Richard Felton Outcault, should have been born on the same day, today, in 1863, on which The Simpsons animated television show would premiere, over a century later, in 1990.
“It takes practice to learn to ignore the news.” This is what the apathetic father of a young girl trying to figure out the cause…
Like many children, one of the things I enjoyed doing when I was young was inventing characters — and even more fun was creating the…
The funny line drawings that we today refer to as cartoons have been with us for probably as long as people have drawn on the…
Walt Kelly was one of the masters of American nonsense. His much loved, hilariously cryptic Pogo comic strip first appeared in 1949 and was in American papers even after Kelly’s death in 1973.
“Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, strong as Hercules, and swifter than Mercury” it’s everything I wanted to be as a girl growing up in…