We are pleased to present a never-before-seen interview with Trina Robbins, perhaps the late artist’s final longform interview, conducted by Zach Rabiroff in December of 2023 on the topic of Jewishness in Robbins’ comics and comics history.
An obituary for Trina Robbins, artist and historian, who passed away in San Francisco on April 10 at the age of 85.
Hello, I am here to collect the comics tax! (Panels vanish depending on one’s income bracket.)
Following the death of American comic book retailer and historian Robert Beerbohm on March 27, 2024, we reached out to notable comics academics, writers and historians and asked them to share their memories of him.
William Schwartz speaks with cartoonist Norm Feuti about Retail, a daily strip about day-to-day work that ran from 2006 to 2020.
In this new translation of a 2022 essay, Natsume Fusanosuke muses on the elusively erotic quality of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, and the force of Tezuka’s personality that shaped the very idea of manga history.
It’s back: YOUR favorite monthly column of small-press and self-published capsule reviews by RJ Casey. Why is it 80 degrees out in April?!
Jake Zawlacki talks to artist Matt Lesniewski about his ascendant career, his interests in storytelling, and his recent series Faceless and the Family.
In this vintage interview from The Comics Journal #53 (Winter 1980), Bill Sherman speaks with the cartoonist Trina Robbins (1938-2024) about a life in underground comics as the ’70s drew to a close.
Cartoonist Katie Skelly pens an obituary for Ed Piskor, author of popular series such as Hip Hop Family Tree, X-Men: Grand Design and Red Room, and co-creator of the influential YouTube channel Cartoonist Kayfabe. Piskor died on April 1, 2024, aged 41.
Remembering a sturdy and humane craftsman who co-created several prominent off-kilter superhero projects of the 1990s; Mark D. Bright died on March 27, 2024, aged 68.
This is the seventh installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.”
Steven Brower chats with Tim Lane, one of the standout alternative cartoonists of the 21st century, whose new comic book series, Mythologies & Apocrypha, debuts this month.
Everybody damned to turn the awful spinning wheel.
Hagai Palevsky examines a recent collection of science fiction comics by the late Italian master Sergio Toppi, going deep into how the artist’s fascination with the cultural past informs his idea of the future.
Ed Piskor, prominent writer/artist of comics such as Wizzywig, Hip Hop Family Tree, X-Men: Grand Design and Red Room, was reported dead on April 1, 2024
MariNaomi talks to Leela Corman about her new graphic novel, Victory Parade, as well as women’s wrestling, Yiddishkeit, and the power of transgressive art.
Tom Shapira looks back at a brief, adventurous revival of a early comic book institution: the First Comics run of Classics Illustrated.
Hagai Palevsky interviews UK artist Gareth A. Hopkins on abstract comics, autobiography, the texture of the page, and thinking a lot about what you are doing.
How come I shoot the dead? That’s a silly question.
Matt Petras talks to the Dog Biscuits author about her new comic, moving away from Instagram and leaving her day job.
Few things are more readily observable in comics than the line a cartoonist uses to draw on the page. In this newly translated excerpt from a 1997 study, Natsume Fusanosuke looks to the examples of manga artists Tanioka Yasuji and Sugiura Shigeru to explore the fundamental characteristics of the artist’s line.
