Tag: Michael DeForge

The winners of the sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize (presented by Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies) have been announced. Keren Katz won in the print category for The Academic Hour(Secret Acres),an unsettling tale of an unusual school drawn in Katz' wispy, evocative art.

There's no more loved or admired person in comics than Annie Koyama, the owner and publisher of Koyama Press. And this year's Small Press Expo will celebrate Koyama Press's 10th anniversay with comics, programming and...

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse...

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It’s mission is to “promote the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse...

Mostly daily The very prolific Michael DeForge is running a mostly daily comic strip on Instagram called Leaving Richard's Valley  It's sort of the flip side to Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero also online, but also just out in...

§ Nice Art: man, if there's ONE holiday card from a cartoonists type you'd want to get it's this collaboration between Michael DeForge and Jillian Tamaki. § British comics artist/colorist Pete Doherty is recovering from...

Comics creator process posts are the BEST posts. Jeff Lemire seems to have taken over Charles Soule's mantle as Busiest Person in Comics– writing 7-8 monthly books - and he reveals how he does...

Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations, this is a self-righteous pile of bull built from Gen...

2015 isn't even cold in its rocking chair and 20126 is coming on like gangbusters. Here's what D&Q has coming in February, the long awaited collection of Brian Chippendale's Puke Force, new Michael DeForge (does...

This weekend it's Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg and here's a look at the books that will be debuting. Thanks to all the contributing publishers and cartoonists for supplying the info and lightening our wallets. Because there were so many new and exciting books I'm splitting this into two parts. Look for part two tomorrow!

It's time to get back to what's best in life: COMICS. The fall publishing season has been announced (and Spring '16 is coming soon) so here's some previews of what's coming starting with Koyama...

Canada's Koyama Press continues to present a lively slate of boundary-pushing work, and this fall they are putting out their biggest line ever, including two books by Michael DeForge, new books by Jane Mai, Cole Closser and some newcomers, a kid's book and a revamped version of Julia Wertz's Drinking at the Movies. I expect one of the most interesting will be Robin Nishio's Wailed which follows "a group of friends who also happen to be the vanguard of alternative comics making." And you thought The Sponsor was shattering! All the details below: