“The best way to learn a language is to move where to they speak it” is a salty old cliché because it’s true. I realized my portuguese skills were growing when I started to registering snippets of paulistanos’ conversations all around me as I walked through central São Paulo’s supermarkets, feirinhas, botecos, rode on the [...]
Witness the ongoing adventures of one man with all the time in the world. He. Is. Time Bum! Return monthly to Trip City throughout 2012 to follow the non-adventures of a transient travelling through the ages to avoid responsibility. Experience single-panel, panoramic, hobo-sci-fi comix as never before! Written by Jef UK. Art by Paul Ahern. Created [...]
“Surplus Property” is a story of passing worlds erased by time and appetite, and humble, steadfast lives not swept away so easily. You can’t keep a good regret from resurfacing, and our melancholy vignette began as a concept for a certain big-media detective character whose comic was cutting its price and its backpage short-story presence [...]
I want you to listen to the song while you read the comic, because there’s really no such thing as liner notes anymore. So go do that and come back here, and I’ll tell you a thing or two.
It was one of those crystal clear days at the shore drawing the first crowds out to the windy boardwalk to comment on the high waves and test out sugary beverages nostalgically. Asbury Park’s traditional role of bringing people out to the Atlantic shore for its own particular brand of music fanaticism took a back [...]
Writer Charles Soule (27: Second Set) and artist Robert Saywitz tell a New York love story that only graphic fiction could get right. Featuring lettering by Shawn Depasquale, Sal & Chrys combines romance and architectural history to realize this unique, comix short story. Click HERE to learn more about Charles Soule’s work with Image Comics, his upcoming [...]
What is it about Asian girls anyway? Or specifically, what is it about Jewish guys and Asian girls? I’ve long noticed the commonality of that particular interracial coupling. My theory: stereotypically, Asian men are domineering and Jewish women overbearing, so perhaps the Asian female wants to date the opposite of her father and the Jewish [...]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been, “Lucky Eddie.” If not for the fact that my birth certificate and social security card both say, “Edward F. Munson,” I’d believe my first name was Lucky. Not sure how it all started or who started it. As is the case with most family [...]
Dean Haspiel and writer, Tim Hall, interview comedian/writer/performer, Lizz Winstead, who is best known for co-creating THE DAILY SHOW, and they discuss her life and career and her new book, LIZZ FREE OR DIE.
Teenage heartthrob Jef UK talks to author Charles Soule about his upcoming Image Comics collection 27: Second Set, his recently announced graphic novel Strange Attractors from Archaia Entertainment, and his Slave Labor Graphics series Strongman, as well as the pride and pitfalls of making it as a writer in the first decade of the new millennium. Read Charles’ comic Sal & Chrys on Trip City by clicking HERE.
(Tim Hall, Lizz Winstead, and Dean Haspiel)
(Charles Soule and Jeffrey Burandt aka Jef UK)
The TRIP CITY Podcast produced by Chris Miskiewicz.
Photographs by Seth Kushner.
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