The biggest Tintin page in the world (via Daily Cross Hatch) + The Daily Cross Hatch review Art Spiegelman‘s Be a Nose + Robot 6 interview Bob Fingerman: “Doing comics definitely influenced the way I wrote the novel.” + And Fingerman at Newsarama (via Comics Reporter) + Arthur magazine are running excerpts from Jeff Lint’s The Caterer + The graphic novel in Europe: Who would have thought that Goethe was perhaps the first comics ‘fan’? And their first theoretician and champion was Töpffer himself, who by 1845, the year before his death, felt confident enough about the significance of his work to write the first essay explaining and defending comics. For a variety of reasons, however, the medium would take some time to live up to those great expectations, let alone surpass them. + Oliver East talks Proper Go Well High: “I’m very happy with the person in the first panel. Without fail every person in Trains [Are Mint] is terribly drawn, mainly because I was trying to draw people, so in Proper I stopped trying and just did it and I’ve almost succeeded here.” + Omnivoracious talk to Jaime Hernandez: “I’ve always like being friends with women. Besides liking to draw them, there’s just something about women—they’re very interesting creatures, for lack of a better term.” (via Journalista!) + Neil Gaiman looks back over Sandman: “What I created was a shape of comic that allowed me to do anything that I wanted. And if I wanted to do science fiction, I could have done science fiction.” (same) + A review of the recent Paul Hornschemeier exhibition ‘Cloistered in Crowds’ + And Comic Cast on Paul Hornschemeier‘s re-released Mother, Come Home.
