Noel Murray

Author Archive

  • July 23, 2012
    After the last of the 2012 Eisner Awards were handed out, and before the after-party began, all the year’s winners gathered on the stage at the San Diego Bayfront...
  • July 11, 2012
    In Alison Bechdel’s new memoir Are You My Mother?, the cartoonist recalls a page from Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book that captured her imagination when she was a little girl....
  • May 2, 2012
    In 1992, 20 years after Tom Batiuk launched his syndicated daily comic strip Funky Winkerbean, the cartoonist revamped the feature, changing it from the mildly absurd adventures of...
  • April 4, 2012
    Sheer circumstance has led French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle to spend extended periods of time in China, North Korea, Burma, and Jerusalem (the first two to supervise...
  • February 21, 2012
    Children’s toys and entertainment don’t change over time as much as we may assume they do. I watched Looney Tunes and read superhero comics with my father when I was a...