Month: April 2011
Hillary Chute and the Dynamics of Autobiography
Hillary Chute’s Graphic Women examines autobiographical comics through a literary lens; and yet how to reckon with the mysterious “Judith Forest”‘s performative “autobiographies?”
Publishing, Power, and Print Purgatory: Inside the Tokyopop Rights Situation
Tokyopop will not be reverting rights back to their creators of original content, and is in discussion with certain creators regarding contract buyouts, a source told the Comics Journal this week.
Bulletproof: The Kane & Hine Interview
An interview with Shaky Kane and David Hine, creators of The Bulletproof Coffin, a candy-coated, psychedelic superhero romp that doubles as a savage condemnation of the comics industry.
Evan Dorkin
The first episode of a new biweekly podcast. The special guest: Milk & Cheese creator Evan Dorkin.
Gahan Wilson and the Comedy of the Weird
For decades, Wilson has been aiming his shrinking ray at monsters and aliens and evil humans of all sorts, and distilled their most terrifying qualities into cartoons.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/27/11 – No More Thinking)
On the ideological dialectic of Steve Ditko’s squiggles and how a slap is sometimes like a kiss. Plus: more comics; more drugs.
Making “Genius”: Mullaney and Canwell on Alex Toth
A conversation with the authors of the new Alex Toth biography, Genius, Isolated.
Bill Blackbeard: Tributes
Words of appreciation from Gary Groth, Chris Ware, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Mark Newgarden, Robert Beerbohm, Michael Tisserand, Peter Maresca, Trina Robbins, and others as they come in.
Bill Blackbeard, R.I.P.
The man who gave comics its memory.
Bill Blackbeard, The Man Who Saved Comics, Dead at 84
Bill Blackbeard, without question or quibble, is the only absolutely indispensable figure in the history of comics scholarship for the last quarter century.
Layout Workbook 7
This week we’re going to look at the frescoes of Giotto and riff on simultaneity.
Pascal Girard: Day 5
Pascal Girard wraps it up, and goes home to rest.
Notes on S. Clay Wilson
If we acknowledge that he was the artist who gave permission for Crumb to become Crumb, then it’s clear that Wilson was the central artist of the underground generation.
The Nordic Charms of Naomi Nowak
An introduction to the artist’s dream-like tales spun in a lush drawing style.
The Boss is Back
Today we revisit old conflicts, straighten out “memories” and remember the good old days.
Pascal Girard: Day 4
Awkward cartoonist encounters:Know them and own them.
Jim Shooter: Groundhog Day in the Land of the Apocryphiars
Running alongside his storied career as a comics writer, editor, and publisher, Jim Shooter began a second, parallel career sometime in the 1990s: that of recounting his first career in vainglorious prose and delusional detail.