Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Stan Yan
#33: Stan Yan Denver native Stan Yan started out a stockbroker and ended up a cartoonist. Self-taught as an artist, he not only found his calling in the pages of comic books but helped to found the...
View ArticleIllustrator Thane Benson on the Art of Drawing Comics in a Digital Age
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around...
View ArticleHow to Pick a Stupid Fight
Editor's note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an 80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver's work in...
View ArticleLynda Barry Discusses Image and Art at RMCAD Tuesday
A seminal figure in the world of cartoons and illustration, Lynda Barry has been creating award-winning comic strips, books and graphic novels for the better part of four decades. Along making those...
View ArticleConnor Marshall on the Dr. Fart Comic Strip and Running a Comedy Show in a...
Unabashed in its own gleeful puerility, the once-ubiquitous "Dr. Fart" tag was cheekily crowned Best Unofficial New Public Art in the Best of Denver 2014. Some people saw the tags as an almost dadaist...
View ArticleFame Doesn't Equal Money
Editor's note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an 80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver's work in...
View ArticleTwelve Places to Celebrate Free Comic Book Day in Denver on May 2
Comic books are no longer guilty pleasures: This Saturday, May 2, marks the thirteenth annual Free Comic Book Day, an event now celebrated worldwide. The unofficial holiday is a great time to get...
View ArticleDeadline Friday for Westword's Third Annual Comics Contest
Westword will publish its third annual comics issue on May 28, 2015 — and you can be a part of it. We're accepting submissions from any Colorado artist who wants to create a cartoon about life in the...
View ArticleRufus Baxter's One Last Thing
Editor's note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver shares his ongoing story of an 80s rocker on a road trip through his past with the readers of Backbeat. You can see more of Van Sciver's work in...
View ArticlePhotos: The People and Costumes of Denver Comic Con 2015
No pop-culture sub-genre was left unturned at Denver Comic Con, as evidenced by the sheer variety of costumery on parade at the Colorado Convention Center over Memorial Day weekend. From the classic...
View ArticleSmile High City: Meet the Winners of Westword's Third Comics Contest
For the third year running, we asked cartoonists — and would-be cartoonists — to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. We received dozens of responses; not surprisingly, many focused on cannabis...
View ArticleMore Comic Relief From Our Third Annual Cartoon Contest
Our May 28 issue featured the ten winners of our third annual comics contest; you can see them here. And below, we're sharing many more entries, some of which look at such serious Denver issues as...
View ArticleDINK Creates a Place to Celebrate Independent Comics
Denver’s geeky convention scene is busy, averaging a little more than one con a month. As full as the con calendar is, there’s always room for one more, especially when it sports the pedigree of DINK,...
View ArticleDr. Dre Talks Legacy, In Illustrated Form
Dr. Dre's just released his new album, the soundtrack to Straight Outta Compton. "The soundtrack is insane," the movie's director, F. Gary Grey, told MTV. "You can hear some of his influences, with...
View ArticleThe Ten Best Geek Events in Denver in September
School is back in session — sorry, students; congratulations, parents — and before we know it, fall will be here, ushering in cooler weather and pumpkin spice everything. Whether you consider that good...
View ArticleAn Illustrated History of Larimer Lounge: A "RiNo" Original
Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a series chronicling the history of local music venues by longtime Denver cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz. This week, he talked to Larimer Lounge...
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