Deconstructing Comics

Director Jason Andrew Cohn is in the process of making a documentary on manga legend Osamu Tezuka (and gathering funding -- see Kickstarter here). This time he talks with Tim about Tezuka's influences, the diversity of the types of manga...

FLASHBACK! In the world of corporate comics, creators are challenged to put together a run on a given book that will stand out against everything that's come before in that book, and leave a mark on the series that will last well beyond their run. Grant Morrison's New X-Men run, from 2001 to 2004, met that challenge. In the years since he left the book, seve...

Achille & Kipi: The Disconnected is an Italian comic meant to raise issues about modern life and technology. In this episode, Tim and Jason take a stab at critiquing it, but the teaser we received doesn't...

Jack Kirby left Marvel with one issue of his Kiber storyline left to go. We don't know if he left notes on what was to happen, but in Black Panther #13, Jim Shooter and Ed Hannigan presented a competent but comparatively wordy conclusion to the story. Then, while Kirby's '70s Marvel work kept the rest of the publisher's universe at Mr.-Fantastic-arm's length,...

FLASHBACK! Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle and Lisa Hanawalt's My Dirty Dumb Eyes are two books exhibiting bizarre humor and pointe...