We were set to meet Scott at the Olive Garden in Ann Arbor, Michigan, but he was ten minutes late. We had his cell phone number, but I’d left it in the car. Since I knew Scott by sight, Lynn offered to go back and get the number. But to my surprise, she returned […]

It didn’t seem at all surprising when comics theorist Neil Cohn recently used a Butternut Squash comic to illustrate a point in a Comixpedia article. The series has always come across as more than goofy humor and slick rendering; the creators have shown a strong intuitive grasp of comics storytelling.
Whether you refer to that quality […]

Penny Heartbreaker is a rocker with a dilemma; she’s too stitched with stage fright to perform in front of the mike. So she finds a suitably malleable boyfriend, teaches him all her songs, and puts him on stage in her place.
But boyfriend Eugene, renamed Johnny Guttersnipe by Penny, becomes such an overnight sensation that he’s […]