HORROR BY HECK
Years before he co-created Marvel superhero Iron Man or penciled The Avengers, Queens, NY-born comics artist Don Heck was mostly drawing death.
Category: Recent Reads
Ears and aliens: Anuj Shrestha’s comics and illustrations
The unnerving horror- or sci-fi-tinged comics produced by Philadelphia-based artist Anuj Shrestha have been featured in various anthologies and have been cited in Best American Comics, but I discovered him by way of illustration commissions.
Comics pioneer Héctor Oesterheld and The Eternaut
Buenos Aires-born comics writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld was nearing his 59th birthday when heavily militarized Argentine death squads kidnapped him in the spring of 1977.
For As Long As It Rains
In the spring of 2015, Montreal French-language publisher Éditions Pow Pow issued a slate of English translations of its comics after a crowdfunding campaign that yielded more than twenty-four thousand Canadian dollars.