In the late 1980s, Raymond Briggs produced some of his most adult-oriented work, including the Tin Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1983, and the droll...

Raymond Briggs Part Four When the Wind Blows by Eric Hoffman In the 1980s, a decade which saw the resurgence of extremist right-wing reactionary political ideologies in the United States...

  Briggs’s next project, the understated, charmingly off-kilter “Gentleman Jim” (1980) (not to be confused with the 1942 Errol Flynn boxing film), heralds a new period in the artist’s...

  From the folks at Sequart comes this stellar – and long overdue – collection on sometimes esteemed, sometimes disregarded Marvel comic “Daredevil”. The character is lately enjoying...

Part three concludes our interview with Mark Badger. Eric Hoffman for Comics Bulletin: The “Instant Piano” series was an interesting experiment, which utilized computer-generated artwork. The work...

Eric Hoffman's interview with Mark Badger continues! Eric Hoffman for Comics Bulletin: You did a number of collaborations with writer J.M. DeMatteis, including the “Gargoyle” mini-series, your first...

About Mark Badger (from his website): Mark Badger’s art combines political activism and comic books and the web into one. He drew comics for Marvel and DC working on such prominent characters as...

Prior to his beginning work on Father Christmas (1973), cartoonist Raymond Briggs, in quick succession, lost his mother and father to old age (his mother died at Christmas 1971 of “what seemed to be...

Carl Barks – who from 1943 to 1966 labored in obscurity as the unacknowledged author and artist of some 500 Disney stories, comprising more than 6,000 pages of comic art – must be considered, along with...

© 2015 Eric Hoffman Raymond Briggs – the celebrated UK-based creator of such cherished Holiday-themed institutions and Father Christmas (1973) and The Snowman (1978) – in speaking with interviewer...