I’ve been following Jamie Noguchi’s work for some time now, and I reviewed Yellow Peril Comic this past year. He’s been working as an artist for a while now, and he recently began Super Art Fight, which has been popular all up and down the East Coast. Saturday night, right after a match, I got [...]

I was born, raised, and currently reside in New Jersey. That unto itself comes with its share of unique problems, but the one out-and-out positive thing about it was that you grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen. I don’t care who you are or what your background is; if you live in New Jersey you [...]

I’ve heard a lot about Michael DeForge over the past year so when I saw that he would be tabling at SPX I knew that this would be a perfect chance to dig into his work which at that point I was only vaguely familiar with. Going through his work the term that kept popping [...]

What the hell is Bangers and Mash? I mean the Radiohead song. What was that about again? Anyway, I got to sit in on a panel at SPX that dealt with the UK scene of graphic novel publishing. It was pretty neat. They had a few artists on the panel, including Nick Abadzis, the authors [...]

I only had one semester of Sociology class, which was enough to make me wish I’d taken more, but it got me interested in the idea of the “conflict theory” of history. In that view, the story of history is the story of upper and lower classes competing against each other. I prefer to think [...]

A suburban Chicago winter is a terrible thing. The world turns and awful gray, everything is uncomfortably damp, and boredom rains supreme. It was in these dark days, where the malaise was compounded by the inevitable horrible darkness of being a fifteen year old, that I succumbed to the Dark Prince. Sure, things started out [...]

When I went to SPX this year I was hoping to pick up Braden Lamb’s and Shelli Paroline’s newest minicomic Life on Triton. Unfortunately I was informed that the mini wasn’t complete in time for the show, and although that bummed me out the two did have a lot of other cool stuff for sale, and [...]

I think it would be fair to say Jim Rugg helped in some small way to set me down this weird path of writing about comic books.  He was one of my first guests on my college radio show where I interviewed comics creators, which might as well have been a precursor for what I [...]

All right kids, here’s the first mass review of books I swiped from SPX. A couple of these things were free and they’re of varying quality, so this’ll be fast and grody. My feet are wet and Black Mesa Source just downloaded, so I’ll keep these blurbs down to 200 words each (hopefully): Sequential Art, [...]

So here’s something that will be a surprise to no one: I’m a massive fan of the television show Community. Or at least I…..was? No, that doesn’t fit, I’m still a fan and probably always will be. But I think it’s safe to say that, like a lot of people, I’m the kind of fan [...]

So I was busy talking to Alex about something on the convention floor when he peered over my shoulder and asked me, “What’s that Jack Kirby looking thing over there?” We walked over to the booth where this “Jack Kirby looking thing” sat. A strong-jawed man with red, white and blue striped hair stared back [...]

Natalie Nourigant is one of those artists I’ve made a point to keep an eye out for ever since reading her book Between Gears, which collected her daily autobio strip about her last year in college. Despite not really being an Auto-bio guy I really dug the whole thing, not only because it showed how [...]