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Category: Comics

  • Howtoons

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    I’ve long been fascinated with the idea of comics and cartoons as a medium for instruction or teaching. Here’s an interesting take on that idea. Howtoons is a series of how-to projects for kids (or adults going through a second childhood) presented as comic strips or cartoon-like panels. In them we’re introduced to Tucker and…

  • Flesk Publications (update)

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    Flesk Publications is a small publisher specializing in art books, and particularly in titles that would be of interest to many lines and colors readers. I first wrote about Flesk two years ago as one of my first posts for lines and colors. At the time the focus of Flesk’s publishing efforts was on two…

  • Mike Wieringo dies at 44

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    I was shocked and saddened to learn earlier this week that comic book artist Mike Wieringo had died at the age of 44, apparently from a sudden heart attack. Wieringo was a bright spot in the landscape of contemporary American comics. I wrote about his work back in 2005 and again in 2006. Though he…

  • Barefoot Gen (Keiji Nakazawa)

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    Contrary to popular belief, the horror of nuclear war is not the stuff of science fiction; humanity has already experienced a nuclear war, albeit a limited one; it was called World War II; a war in which nuclear weapons were dropped on cities full of people. Those whose impression of the medium we call “comics”…

  • Sundays with Walt and Skeezix (Gasoline Alley by Frank King)

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    In 2005 Sunday Press Books published a remarkable collection of Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay’s astonishing early 20th Century comic strip, printed at the size of the original full page newspaper comics. (See my post on both McCay and the book.) Thanks to the risky but brilliant choice of format, So Many Splendid Sundays…

  • DC Comics Announces Zudacomics.com

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    In the 12 years or so that I’ve been drawing webcomics, I’ve continued to be stupefied by the monumental cluelessness of the major comics companies (with the possible exception of Dark Horse) in regard to online comics. It took Marvel and DC four or five years to even acknowledge their existence, they never seemed to…