Celebrating the Comics, Cartoons and Creators of Central Ohio
Well, those Silicon Valley eggheads finally went and did it. They made artists obsolete, kaput, completely and utterly unnecessary. AI art has come to replace us all. Or has it?
Continue reading “Artificial Comics”Clarion Books released Fish Girl in 2017, and the book went on to become a three-time Caldecott Medalist. Visit a boardwalk aquarium and you might just get a glimpse of the mermaid hiding behind the kelp.
Continue reading “Fish Girl”Published by Image Comics in 2010, Frank Cho presents Liberty Meadows: Eden. Brandy Carter is a beautiful animal psychiatrist working with nerdy veterinarian, Frank Melisch.
Continue reading “Liberty Meadows: Eden”Were you ever reading Lone Wolf and Cub and thought, “You know, this would be better if we lost the cub and made everyone an anthropomorphic animal?”
Continue reading “Usagi Yojimbo”Maggie Dahlstrom is a trans woman, queer-comics researcher, and lapsed cartoonist. She lives in Columbus with her fiancé Max. Check out her research project at go.osu.edu/teachingqueercomics
Continue reading “Top Five with Maggie Dahlstrom”Over the last decade, I’ve gone from producing one or two comics a year to producing over a dozen comics yearly, along with webcomics, short stories in anthologies, a few graphic novels, and helping produce the very newspaper you hold in your hands. On top of all that, I’m also happily married, a father of three wonderful children, and work a full-time non-comics related job. Before you ask, no, there’s not two of me. In fact, I accomplished this level of productivity by making a few simple changes in my life.
Continue reading “Tips to Improve Your Productivity”Ben Towle is a five-time Eisner Award nominated cartoonist with a lengthy bibliography. His first book, Midnight Sun, was published by SLG Publishing in 2007 and is a historical fiction tale inspired by the real-life crash of an airship expedition in 1928. Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean is also a work of historical fiction. Published by Disney/ Hyperion Books in 2010, it features the famous aviator and her quest to fly across the Atlantic. Oyster War, published in 2015 by Oni Press, is a nautical fantasy about dastardly pirates looting the seas and the pragmatic Commander and crew hired to stop them. Ben’s latest book, Four- Fisted Tales: Animals in Combat, published by Dead Reckoning in 2021, shares stories of animals that have fought alongside soldiers throughout the centuries. Ben currently serves as a professor of Illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design.
Continue reading “10 Questions with Ben Towle”I recently sat down to watch the animated movie Persepolis based on the acclaimed graphic novel, which was so good that it drove me to re-read the book.
Continue reading “Persepolis”Late in 2022, I walked down to German Village’s “The Book Loft” for an author’s reading. Melanie Gillman was reading from her newly released book Other Ever Afters. Released by Penguin Random House, the book contains seven fairy tales for the modern age. In these tales, there was nothing short of magic where monsters were heroes and princes could be villains.
Continue reading “Other Ever Afters”Small press creators often live off the generosity of time and influence that podcasters can provide. In thanks, we wanted to give our readers a chance to catch up on some fantastic comic-related podcasts.
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