Interview - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:05:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Interview - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 INTERVIEW: Writer Daryl Lawrence talks True North, the issue-by-issue guide to Alpha Flight https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/27/daryl-lawrence-true-north-alpha-flight/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53135 In True North, out July 1, writer and Alpha Flight superfan Daryl Lawrence has written the definitive issue-by-issue accounting of the first volume of everyone’s favorite Canadian super team. As a fellow devotee of the “one issue at a time” approach to comic book analysis, I reached out to Daryl to ask him about the...

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]]> 53135 Alex Segura On Taking Marvel’s Star Wars Into A New Era https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/09/alex-segura-on-taking-marvels-star-wars-into-a-new-era/ Fri, 09 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52549 May the Fourth and Revenge of the Fifth may have passed for this year, but that doesn’t mean we, or the pop culture landscape, are done with Star Wars. With a new volume of Marvel’s Star Wars ongoing launching this past Wednesday, writer and Star Wars fan Matt Lazorwitz was able to sit down with...

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]]> 52549 Cartoonist Jon Adams On 12 Years of Putting Chief O’Brien Through Monotonous Hell https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/22/cartoonist-jon-adams-on-12-years-of-putting-chief-obrien-through-monotonous-hell/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52326 Two weeks ago, Jon Adams’ long-running webcomic Chief O’Brien At Work ended its 12 year run. In more than 400 entries, the comic featured a largely static image of Chief O’Brien as he waits for someone, anyone, to need the transporter, or, failing that, a friend. With mostly unseen supporting characters like Keiko, Commander Riker,...

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]]> 52326 Ryan North talks Star Trek: Lower Decks ― Warp Your Own Way, CYOA Hamlet and more https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/22/ryan-north-star-trek-lower-decks/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50508 Once again, I’ve reached Ryan Qwantz North as he travels the highways of Canada, ever his constant remote companion, this time to discuss Star Trek, chooseable path stories and Star Trek: Lower Decks — Warp Your Own Way, the upcoming chooseable path graphic novel from IDW, with art by Chris Fenoglio, colors by Charlie Kirchoff...

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]]> 50508 Ryan North Talks Lower Decks #1, Star Trek AI, and Pizza Shakes https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/15/ryan-north-talks-lower-decks-1-star-trek-ai-and-pizza-shakes/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42471 Somewhere on the Trans-Canada highway, that great artery connecting all ten Canadian provinces, Ryan North speeds along in his car. There, among the anonymous byroads of rural Quebec, where the Internet is spotty, the white-throated sparrows serenade with their call of “oh-sweet-Canada-Canada!” and the cabanes à sucre provide the vital, sugary lifeblood to the world’s...

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]]> 42471 Beany Tuesday Talks about Serialized Comics and Creative Decision-Making https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/21/beany-tuesday-talks-about-serialized-comics-and-creative-decision-making/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40197 Popular across Instagram and Twitter, you may have already seen Beany Tuesday’s work without realizing it. If you’ve ever seen a meme asking “Why am I laughing?” you’ve stumbled into a Beany Tuesday classic. Known mainly as a leftist cartoonist, Beany Tuesday’s popularity stems from the way he captures the experience of being on the...

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