Monthly Archives: September 2020
Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction) – This Week’s Links
It’s time to check in for your weekly dose of comics news and links: there’s a lot of shows to catch up on, new pieces of writing on old pieces of comics, and Clark’s found it all–no stone is unturned. In fact, if you believe you’ve got an unturned stone: you’re a filthy liar! Continue reading
Excerpt: “Hemingway in Comics”
A series of TCJ articles on Ernest Hemingway’s comic book appearances became a book deal, and that book deal has resulted in a book, which now appears back here, as an excerpt: it’s the circle of (promotional) life. Continue reading
Bob Fujitani: 1921 – 2020
A look back at the long and prolific career of Bob Bob Fujitani, whose comics work included co-creation of Solar, many years on Flash Gordon, and a relationship with nearly every major Golden Age publisher. Continue reading
“Am I Paying Attention To Anything Useful At All?”: A Conversation With Keiler Roberts
Keiler Roberts grapples with the place of comics and artistic creation in her life as the school year begins, and shares some coping strategies that have served her over a difficult summer. Continue reading
Their Other Last Hurrah – Cinema Purgatorio
Tom Shapira takes a look at the recently concluded series of comics by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill. No, not those. The other ones. Yeah, the ones from Avatar. Continue reading
“I Joke That For An Extreme Over-sharer, People Don’t Know Anything About Me Or My Life.”: An Interview with JB Brager
JB Brager’s comics and zine work challenges, educates and inspires, often in equal measure. In this conversation with Ian Thomas, they talk about their earliest inspirations, the responsibilities that come with teaching and what they’ve got planned for the future. Continue reading
Absolute Terror Field – This Week’s Links
Clark’s collection of comics news & reviews this week inadvertently makes the case that certain people in comics–a large number of them–might benefit from examining the oldest of mysteries: “looking at a calendar”. Continue reading
