Robert Crumb
Pros: In many circles, is regarded without question as the greatest cartoonist of the age. Â Erupted in the 1960s as the standout creator of the underground comix movement, giving the hippie counterculture (which he held in disdain) some…
It seems to me that in the various discussions round and about of the above Chris Ware cover for The New Yorker a lot is being read into the image than is actually presented. For instance,…
IDW Publishing; 104 pp., $19.99; Color; Hardcover ISBN: 9781600102851
The essence of horror is the violent, unanticipated disruption of audience trust in moral and natural order, but modern “horror” comics (with rare exceptions like Charles Burns’ Black…
Fantagraphics; 596 pp., $39.99; B&W, Hardcover; ISBN: 97815609796
In ambition, breadth and heft, this far-ranging compilation is the worthy companion to Gilbert’s formidable Palomar volume. While capable of standing on its own, Luba is very much the continuing story of…
Apologies in advance for my holiday disappearance. In Fraunchy France now enjoying ice-cold weather and the first full moon in twenty years. More nonsense to come in the new year. Here’s a little wine news, to celebrate my Gallic hosts.
Agi Tadashi’s wine-appreciation manga series, “Kami no Shizuku” (Mead of the Gods) made Wine Magazine’s “2009 Most Powerful” list.
Age of Geeks
The Owl Ship’s controls in Watchmen: The Film Companion, photographed by Clay Enos; ©2009 DC Comics.
In the late 1970s, when this magazine came to be, Alan Moore was kicking around from one clerk job to another, collecting his paychecks from places like the Northampton gas board. He wanted to be an artist and seer, but he couldn’t find the nerve to collar his destiny. One night he had a dream: His 10-year-old self looked at him and wanted to know what had happened to their life. A decade later, Moore was finishing Watchmen, and now he sits in his living room in Northampton, keeping an irritated distance from the $150 million dumb idea Hollywood has raised over his bright idea from a quarter-century back.
Michael Slembrouck:
I thought it was funny that issue 298 of The Comics Journal had a lengthy essay [Comicopia, R.C. Harvey] about the dead chimp/stimulus bill editorial cartoon and how, racist or not, the author failed in the presentation…
This Draper Hill caricature drawn by George Fisher; ©2009 George Fisher.
Draper Hill, 1935-2009
May 13: Draper Hill was unique. A historian and scholar of the arts of editorial…
300 issues, 33 years.*
If the concept of 300 issues of this magazine sets you reeling in a fog of disbelief, horror, and awe, imagine what it does to me. When I co-founded The Comics Journal in 1976, I…
Image from The Book of Genesis Illustrated, ©2009 R. Crumb.
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Headlining October’s new releases is a five-year labor of love from one of America’s most celebrated cartoonists: The…
