DILETTANTE BY STEVE LIEBER Dilettante 052: The Takeaway This is my 52nd “Dilettante” column for Comic Con’s Toucan Blog, and I’m sorry to say it’ll be my last. I’ve had a terrific time writing for you, but the time has come for me to pass this space along to another writer. Throughout my time here, […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 051: Twenty Years Later Let’s start before I was even aware of the project. Editor Bob Schreck had been talking to Greg Rucka about Whiteout and wanted Greg to take a look at my art and see if I was a good fit for the project. Today, an editor would just send some […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 049: Alack Sinner I’ve been waiting almost 30 years for this book. EuroComics, a division of IDW, just released Alack Sinner, a 400-page, black and white collection of expressionist stories drawn by Jose Muñoz and written by Carlos Sampayo. The stories follow the eponymous ex-cop/ private detective/ cab driver Alack Sinner, through […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 048: Managing It’s a long-held truism that the one of the most dangerous times for a business is during a period of rapid growth. This is doubly true for cartoonists, who frequently run their own businesses with little or no support whatsoever. But as a comic builds an audience, opportunities will […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 047: Early Kirby Exposures This August will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby. My main exposure to Kirby’s work was through a small pile of comics and reprint books I acquired as a child. Most of them were torn, coverless and incomplete, and I read them over […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 046: MADness A ridiculously lucky thing happened recently: my wife was sorting through some old boxes of her late father’s papers when she found a small batch of his old MAD magazines from the mid 1950s— the era when it was wrapping up its time as a comic book and transitioning into the […]