The Comics Decoder
Panels Unravelled, Cartoons Exhumed
Issue 10, Winter 2017-18
Rick Friday: The Comics Decoder Interview / R. W. Watkins
A conversation with the Iowa farmer-cartoonist who dared take jabs at Monsanto.
Meanwhile, up north, the dark side of hockey culture has engrossed young Mr. Quann...
Canadian Grit: A Look at Jeff Lemire's Roughneck / Matthew Quann
Let it be known that Mr. Quann can also be engrossed by the 'edgier' side of Marvel...
Not Your Typical Vision: A Review of The Vision, Volumes 1 and 2 / Matthew Quann
Mr. Tolworthy, on the other hand, is taking another look back at the halcyon days of 1960s Marvel Comics...
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: Who Did What? / Chris Tolworthy
Mr. Watkins is also looking back – to far less halcyon moments from an otherwise romantic period...
The Name Said It All: Image at 25 / R. W. Watkins
Stan Lee’s Changes to the Black Panther / Chris Tolworthy
A little companion piece to Mr. Tolworthy's 'Who Did What?' article – just in time for the Marvel movie event of 2018!
Speaking of movies, our resident cameraman has been thinking a lot about the big-screen adaptations again...
What Warner Needs to Do with Its Live-action DC Universe Films / Mark Jarret Chavous
Comics in Remote Corners: Miniature Bubble-gum Strips / R. W. Watkins
The second in a series of short essays exploring the most unusual deployments and adaptations of the comics medium
About this issue’s contributors...
Brief bios with pics
ARCHIVES
The Funnies
Rick Friday's It's Friday, R. W. Watkins's A Dark Glimpse,
Steven Lewis's Murdercake (4 installments), Bill Harvey's The Odds (5 installments),
Gordon Lindholm's Luna Lesser (2 installments), Kurt Beaulieu's latest experimental work,
Grant Snider's Incidental Comics (3 installments), Jessica Tremblay’s Old Pond Comics (4 installments),
Dennis Hyer's Inhuman Relations (26 installments)
It's Friday by Rick Friday
A Dark Glimpse by R. W. Watkins
(with apologies to Ditko, Groening and Donald Fagan!)
The ODDs by Bill Harvey
Luna Lesser by Gordon Lindholm
Luna Lesser by Gordon Lindholm
The ODDs by Bill Harvey
Kurt Beaulieu
The ODDs by Bill Harvey
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
Incidental Comics by Grant Snider