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‘If I could have just written love stories I would have preferred that’: A 2006 interview with Marjane Satrapi
Courtesy of PA Media Group, here is a interview with the late Chicken With Plums author done 20 years ago.
[Annoyed Grunt] – This Week’s Links
The end of the financial and academic years approach, here at Links HQ, with a full audit required of every single one of this week’s links.
The last time I saw Don Donahue
Patrick Rosenkranz shares the last interview he did with the seminal underground comics publisher and printer.
The Mad Panic Snafu: An American moment of hit-and-run consumer capitalism
Frank Young looks at two recent collections of 50s-era Mad imitators, Panic and Snafu.
Heavy Metal: A magazine in transition
Like any publication pushing 50, Heavy Metal has had its fair share of ups and downs, especially in the past decade.
Fires after 40: An interview with Lorenzo Mattotti about his landmark work
Valerio Stivé talks to the legendary Italian artist about one of his most significant comics, as well as several other things.
Newly Sprung in June — This Week’s Links
Summer looms, thanking spring for its service, and so we head deep into the heart of convention season, hacking away at the overgrowth to uncover this year’s comic-con bingo card.
Hanna and The Hells vs. The Beatles/Animan
Freaks Inheriting the Earth: Hanna and The Hells vs. The Beatles + Animan
Hanna and The Hells vs. The Beatles (Floating World Comics) by Sam Ashurst and Tony M. Clarke, 36 pages A midnight movie in comics form, this irreverent, humorous and heartfelt comic book references so many comics, cinema and music icons that a supplemental chart might be helpful. It’s a collaboration of Portland-based screenwriter Sam Ashurst Frank M. Young | June 4, 2026
Mars on Life
Shaenon Garrity on Kodansha’s resurrection of Fuyumi Soryo’s romance classic, Mars.
For Feminine Protection, Use a Hand Grenade: Remembering Nicole Hollander (1939-2026)
Nicole Hollander: April 25, 1939-April 23, 2026
Women and Girls Looking Away: Remembering Kiriko Nananan in words and pictures
Remembering Kiriko Nananan remembering us by Helen Chazan.
Dark Horse Workers United Poised as Less Than 48 Hours Remain for Deadline
Dark Horse Workers United deliver June 3 deadline for the 40-year old Oregon publisher.
Kill the Sunflower — This Week’s Links
One more round of links before Clark heads off to a board game convention, which I’m sure is completely different from the comic book kind.
The Comics Journal #59: The Ted White Interview
In this October 1980 interview from TCJ #59, Ted White talks about his time at Heavy Metal Magazine, drugs, Moebius, Neal Adams and much more.
Larry Stark, pioneer of EC Comics fandom and noted theater critic, dies at 93
Thommy Burns remembers EC critic and fan Larry Stark, who died on May 1.
A leap of faith: Fun Home’s last page 20 years later
The question is not simply what Fun Home means, but why it chooses to stop exactly where it does.
Remembering comics scholar John A. Lent, 1936-2026
Bart Beaty returns to the Journal to pay homage to the late scholar John Lent, who died on May 16.
A talk with ‘Antifa’ cartoonist Gord Hill on capitalism, fascism, resistance and comics
If hyphens are a requirement for the marketing of an artist’s work, Hill might be designated an activist-artist, but that hyphen does not connote any sort of balance. Hill’s art is in complete service to his activism.
Flip the Tortoise Over — This Week’s Links
It’s heatwave time in London, which means that it’s time to batten down the hatches and read the latest comics news and reviews.
Hans Rickheit Talks Hitchhiking on 9/11 and The Time-Saving Twin Technique
Hans Rickheit interviewed by Henry Chamberlain.
Arrivals and Departures — May 2026
RJ Casey loves everyone and everything, when are you going to cut the crap and accept that you’re part of a collective society of humanity?
Norakuro and the New Manga-School Group
Natsume Fusanosuke on Norakuro, translated by Jon Holt and Teppei Fukuda.
Chris Harnan Makes a Splash with His Latest from Breakdown Press
Chris Harnan interviewed by Cail Judy for a virtual studio visit.
