PanelxPanel #49 - Djeliya
is the Eisner Award-winning digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics. It’s edited by Strip Panel Naked host Hass Otsmane-Elhaou, and features a rotating set of critics, fans, and professionals.
Each issue has two halves. The first, a focus on a particular comic and featuring a series of essays, interviews, and process pieces all focused around that comic. The 49th issue features Juni Ba's
The second half features a mix of regular articles, interviews, craft essays, a comic, and a series of comic recommendations from a range of comic-related voices.
This is a true celebration of the medium with every issue, looking at all the elements that make comics an interesting art form and a great place to tell visual stories. This is a magazine that cares about comics.
Some of the features:
- A big interview with Ba about creating the comic
- Five essays on the stories we tell ourselves, the djeli tradition, non-linear storytelling, exploring the father-son relationship, and the power of stories exploring unvisited heritage.
For the regular features:
- A short comic.
- Final Thoughts on
- For Solo, a guest essay on
- In Craft Corner, Vali Chandrasekaran and Jun-Pierre Shiozawa discuss the creation of their Esiner-nominated webcomic,
In Big Talk, an interview with Sebastian Girner and Galaad on their all-ages comic,
Available July 30th.