Inkstuds

While in Vancouver for an art installation, Walter Scott and I met up to talk about his book Wendy from Koyama. I really get a lot out of his work and love the balance between his comics and conceptual artwork. Walter is doing a signing and performance at Luckys on Friday evening and his showing at Macaulay Fine Art in Vancouver opening Thursday January 15th until February 17th.

I dont remember where i got this, sorry, please let me know if it’s yours so i can credit.   My second day at Thought Bubble brought me together with a stellar group of cartoonists. Boulet, Becky Cloonan and Emily Carroll are all make amazing work from their own artistic perspectives.  Becky has been writing Gotham Academy for DC Comics and her own self published cartooning work By Cha...

image stolen from Fredeggcomics http://fredeggcomics.blogspot.ca/2014/11/thought-bubble-2014.html Here is my first interview from the UK leg of the roadtrip. A conversation with three very nice people. I am a fan of all of them and they also happen to be some of the most personable folks to talk to. Emma Rios is probably most known for her work on the image series Pretty Deadly. Dave Taylor has be...

  Brandon and I really wanted to talk to Tom Spurgeon while we are all at SPX, unfortunately a long and chatty breakfast got in the way. Now that all of the inkstuds roadtripping is finished, Brandon and I are getting caught up with the interviews we wanted to do, but didn’t get the chance. Tom’s Comics Reporter site is a high point for current comics journalism. His site is a dai...

Hot on the heels of the successful roadtrip series of interview, Brandon revisits the work of our most popular subject, Rob Liefeld. Brandon is joined by Ed Piskor and Joe Keatinge for an indepth discussion of Rob’s work, hopefully providing an understanding and perspective on Rob’s work. His impact in comics is felt long and far. He is quickly dismissed and maligned, but I hope with t...

To end our trip in New York City, Brandon and I traveled across Brooklyn to the home of Gary Panter . We were joined by the our touring friends, Simon Hanselmann, Michael Deforge and Patrick Kyle. We thought it would be fun to bring together some amazing talent, a bunch of young cartoonists heavily influenced by one man, our host Gary. It was a really delightful afternoon. Gary has been on the sho...

Nick Bertozzi is a fav of both mine and Brandon’s. His Rubber Necker series really pushed forward some amazing story telling techniques on top of being great comics. Nick has quietly been producing a massive volume of comics for First Second books. He recently returned to Rubber Necker, releasing the 5th and 6th issues over the last year. He self published his Persimmon Cup graphic novel rec...

Bill Kartalopoulos was on to talk about his first volume as series edit of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin books. For the first volume, he worked with renowned cartoonist, Scott McCloud in crafting a very smartly constructed anthology of wide ranging critically good and important work published in the year covered. Bill is also the programming director for SPX, MOCCA and a n...

New York artist Ron Wimberly aka D-Pi joined us for an interview during our trip to the big city. We had a hard time finding a quiet enough place to do the interview, so apologies for the noise. His latest book is the great Prince of Cats which came out from vertigo. Ron has interesting approach to his own creative work and well worth keeping an eye on.

During our time in NYC we caught up with Simon Hanselmann. I’ve interviewed Simon before a number of years ago and really enjoyed talking to him. His latest book, Megahex from fantagraphics is one of the years best in a year of incredible comics. Simon was just beginning a month long tour across America with Patrick Kyle and Michael Deforge. We met up at the St Regis in Manhattan. Brandon w...

After talking to the artist of This One Summer, it feels only right to catch up with writer, Mariko Tamaki . Mariko has been keeping busy with a number of different writing projects, but her latest was the topic for the day. We also talk about her short film, Happy 16th Birthday Kevin , which I loved! I was also joined by a couple of my coworkers on this interview.

Nurse Nurse and Operation Margarine cartoonist, Katie Skelly was our first visit in New York. Brandon and I are both big fans of Katie’s work and this interview was a long time coming. Her latest work is the flashy webcomic, My Pretty Vampire .

I really enjoyed Mimi Pond ‘s book Over Easy. A story about her time as a waitress in a very charming diner in Oakland. Mimi’s work in comics includes stints at the Village Voice, National Lampoon and much more. Her comics have fresh breath of life to them. I really really enjoyed her book. Mimi will be in Vancouver for Canzine West in Vancouver on November 8th at 149 west hastings st.

Brandon and I have wanted to a late night podcast slumber party after a day of grueling comic festivaling for quite a while. On the Sunday night at SPX, we met up with two creators making comics right now. Emily Carroll ‘s new book, Through the Woods is perfectly timed for reading right now, a dark book of mysterious spookiness. Eleanor Davis ‘s How to Be Happy is an equally impressive...

Brandon and I wanted to interview Farel Dalrymple while we were in Portland, but hadn’t read the Wrenchies yet, so we waited until Farel came up to Vancouver to do a signing. The Wrenchies is by far, one of my favorite comics so far this year. Farel has been working on it for many years, and it shows. It’s beautifully drawn with a fully realized story exploring a range of ideas and emo...

Image stolen from http://www.brokenfrontier.com/spx-review-small-press-expo-ignatz-awards-bethesda-alternative-comics-show/ please visit them to see their own tour report. The first day at SPX was capped off with our panel, a live conversation with Simon Hanselmann , Patrick Kyle and Michael Deforge . The three of them were on the beginning of their month long tour across America. I am a big fan o...

UK cartoonist and illustrator, Stephen Collins , joined me to talk about his new book, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil. His other work includes a collection of comics called Some Comics and brilliantly drawn illustration work. Stephen’s style is fascinatingly versatile. I really enjoyed Gigantic Beard and look forward to more longform work by him.   This Inkstuds was sponsored by Stuff...

Jillian Tamaki was one of the first people on our East Coast roadtrip list and was also our first interview on the trip. We met up with Jillian the Saturday morning of SPX. Her latest book is This One Summer, written by her cousin, Mariko Tamaki. Her other upcoming work includes the SuperMutant Magic Academy  and a  wide range of amazing illustration work. This Inkstuds was sponsored by Stuff Sa...

Disclosure, this inkstuds maybe a little self serving, because it promotes the work of Brandon Graham and friends while Brandon has also been my cohost on the Inkstuds Roadtrip. I’m a big fan of the work that Brandon, Simon Roy, Giannis Milogiannis, Farel Dalrymple and Joseph Bergin III have done on the Prophet comic . It’s a great series pushing some great story telling ideas in a for...

With the end of our brief visit to Portland, we bring you Lin Visel. Lin’s work can be found on the porn comic site Slipshine , as well as her own Chipperwhale Tumblr,  Lin’s comics are fun and full of sexy life.

Portland cartoonist and community organizer Sean Christensen joined us for a chat about his work and much more. Sean’s project, Gridlords is very progressive way at presenting comics in unorthodox events. There is a lot of positive reviews and affection for the Gridlords and Sean and co-organizer, Emily Nilsson are doing some good important work. Sean’s comics work is extremely enjoyab...

  Our time in Portland brought about our longest roadtrip interview yet. Bob Schreck has been a key figure behind the scenes in comics for the last 30+ years. From his early days at Comico, to Dark Horse comics, co-founding Oni Press, his impressive time at DC and now as the chief dude at Legendary, Bob has been involved in bringing forward work by some of the biggest creators in comics. It&#...

John Martz joined me to discuss his new kids book from Koyama Press, A Cat Named Tim . John’s illustrated work is really wonderful, filled with a great personality. John was also the founder of the very popular and much missed Drawn blog. He has recently returned to blogging again with his Research and Development  tumblr. John will be debuting the book at SPX this weekend and an event at L...

Roman Muradov joined me to talk about his new book from Nobrow, (In A Sense) Lost & Found. I find Roman’s work to be very exciting to read. He is doing some really interesting complex work contained in an extremely visually pleasing art style. His other work includes Picnic Ruined from Retrofit and his self-published Yellow Zine series. Roman will be debuting his lastest book at Mission...

This roadtrip interview serves as a nice companion piece to last weeks. After a spectacular lunch, we caught up with Matt Fraction . Matt’s latest work is the wonderful Sex Criminals with graphic artist Chip Zdarsky. His other ongoing series include Satellite Sam with Howard Chaykin, the just announced ODY-C with artist Christian Ward and Casanova with Brazilian wonder twins, Ba and Moon. Ma...