Comics Reporter interview Wondermark’s David Malki: ”I think it’s cool that other people have appreciated this work in the same way that I do. People like to bring up Max Ernst to me a lot, whose work I finally looked up after having never seen it. He was doing almost exactly what I do! His stuff is awesome, and I’ve even seen a few images I recognize among his work. Seeing his stuff is really inspiring. I’m not familiar with Shane Simmons, but I’m a big fan of [Terry] Gilliam. And there are other people who’ve used Victorian clip-art to make comics or other things. But I still feel my work is different enough from any of these others that I’m able to feel out my own way.” More illustrated jocularity + Harvey Pekar & Rick Veitch’s Next-Door Neighbor + At CBR, Jonathan Lethem on Omega the Unknown: “I’m never thinking about what I or my characters might have to tell to ‘society.’ It just isn’t a term I think in. The story has some themes, I guess: conformity, franchising versus the small businessman, mediated versus ‘real’ experience, etcetera, but those are pretty much just what sneaked in when I wasn’t looking. In writing it, I concerned myself primarily with the character and material directly — teenagers with problems, evil robots, corrupt and borderline-autistic superheroes, hamburgers, that sort of thing.” + An interview with Jordan Crane: ”From now on, I don’t care if I never learn anything more about drawing. I just care about writing, and being engaging as a writer. I mean, that’s your f—ing job. Whether you look at someone like Stephen King or someone supposedly “good” like Flannery O’Connor, both of them, aside from their numerous differences, are engaging. That’s the hardest thing to be, the most important thing to be.” [via Comics Reporter] + Unshelved, a comic book club [via LHB] + Gary Groth on Ralph Steadman.
26 important comic books, how they got Golden + Paul Karasik profiles Will Eisner: The best Spirit stories crackle. These noir-ish picaresque tales have a jazzy sense of New York humour. Eisner drew it as he knew it.” + Standard Attrition, the Vertigo group blog + Coming soon, Beasts 2 + Sausage and Carot, Simone Lia’s new comic for DFC + The mighty Mark Kermode talks to Jamie Hewlett: “Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I remember we filmed [Tank Girl] in Arizona, in this extreme heat, and Rachel [Talalay, director] had just discovered that she was pregnant, which made her very emotional and snappy. So there was Ice T, dressed as kangaroo, and Malcolm McDowell, who was incredibly bad tempered the whole time, constantly rowing with Rachel, and key bits of the movie just got missed - they simply forgot to film things.” + Empire magazine’s 50 greatest comic book characters [via Forbidden Planet Blog] + “Chris Ware is to the contemporary comics world as John Updike is to American (prose) fiction.” [via Journalista!] + Pádraig Ó Méalóid hangs out with the Moore family: “A very tall, skinny, and exceptionally hairy man stood up and said, “You must be Pádraig. It’s a pleasure to meet you at last.” This was Leah’s father, Alan Moore, which you all may know I am a big admirer of. Deirdre was even more surprised that I when he then shook her hand, saying, “And you must be Deirdre.” I just felt that the whole thing was all wrong. Alan shouldn’t have been telling me it was a pleasure to meet me: instead, I should have been grovelling in from of him, going, “I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy.” + And don’t forget to check out Pádraig’s interview with Alan Moore.
First posted: Monday, July 21st, 2008.
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