Interviews

Just in time for Halloween, we present an interview with someone who knows a lot more about costumes and costuming than most: a real life cosplayer.
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Tim Pennington, a really creative artist with whom we spoke a while ago, recently had a career moment, of sorts. A painting of his was pulled from the walls of Blackbird Espresso in Topeka, KS. Tim opened up about this experience, and what else he's been up to since we last spoke.
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Leslie Stein took advantage of a temporary artist's block to chat about her recently published book from Fantagraphics, 'Eye of the Majestic Creature.'
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Dan Johnson's The Perplexing Problem of the Porcelain Bandits is a compelling mystery unmistakably set in San Francisco. As the business of publishing itself has proven rather "perplexing" lately, we sought Dan's opinions not only on the creative process, but on the publishing process in the e-book age.
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In April, Four Star Studios launched its first 99-cent digital comic, Action Double Feature. Recently, the second issue, Horror DoubleFeature, came to market.
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'Subnormality' is one of my favorite webcomics. Winston Rowntree, the pseudonymous creator of Subnormality, chatted with us about his creation.
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'Gingerbread Girl' is an outstanding comic from Top Shelf that's being revealed online in chunks before arriving in stores this May. Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover took some time to talk about their creation.
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Scott Anderson is not only a heck of an artist, he's a full-time faculty member at Westmont College's art department. He has a background in commercial art, and still takes on plenty of commissioned work. Anderson indulged our questions concerning maintaining your artistic sensibility when working commercially, and more.
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Emi Lenox's EMITOWN (www.emitown.com) is a sketch diary in which she drew pages daily, taken from her life for the whole world to see. A printed version of EmiTown--a huge 400 pager from Image Comics--hits stores in November. Emi was gracious enough to talk with us about it.
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Cartoonist Julia Wertz’s 'Fart Party vol. 1', which had been out of print for more than a year, is once again available. It’s a good excuse to catch up with one of our favorite creators, about things from comics to stand-up to dilapidation.
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