Issue 7, Summer 2015

The Comics Decoder

Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed

Issue 7, Summer 2015

J.R. Williams: The Comics Decoder Interview / R. W. Watkins

The Bad Boys creator discusses his early influences, his work for Fantagraphics,

the Northwest alternative scene of the '80s and '90s, and more

Beyond DC and Marvel:

Entertainment Alternatives in the Nineteen-Sixties / Randall Hugh Crawford

The man who gave us Nice Day Comix reminisces, and thinks outside the cave and web

Sticking with a Sixties theme, the editor examines Charlton's insect in light of a certain arachnid...

Atlas Bugged: Ditko's Transition from Spider to Beetle / R. W. Watkins

Speaking of the webslinger, our resident Retroblaster turns his attention

to one of the quirkier cartoons to ever feature Aunt May's favourite nephew...

A Web of Hot and Cold: A Look Back at Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends / Michael French

Me and Ant-Man / George R. R. Martin

The man behind Game of Thrones revisits his MMMS past

after checking out what may be the most interesting Marvel superhero movie in years

The Gory and the Glory: A Look Inside Joan Cornellà’s Mox Nox / R. W. Watkins

The editor exudes conflict in his view of the Spanish artists's first North American collection from Fantagraphics

About this issue's contributors...

Brief bios with pics

ARCHIVES

Issue 1, Summer 2009

Issue 2, Spring 2011

Issue 3, Summer 2012

Issue 4, Spring 2013

Issue 5, Fall 2013

Issue 6, Fall 2014

The Funnies

Grant Snider's Incidental Comics (3 installments), Jessica Tremblay’s Old Pond Comics (6 installments),

Bill Harvey's The Odds (6 installments), Dennis Hyer's Inhuman Relations (12 installments),

Kurt Beaulieu's latest experimental work

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider

The Odds by Bill Harvey

Inhuman Relations by Dennis Hyer

The Odds by Bill Harvey

Kurt Beaulieu

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider