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Grant Morrison’s Unbounded Summoning Possibilities: The Filth, The Invisibles, and moving towards a Non-Dual consciousness
The radiantly sane Grant Morrison discusses The Filth, The Invisibles, and their vast adventures through the real world of magic, interviewed by Gabriel Kennedy.
The Color of the Fire — This Week’s Links
Let’s shove the groundhog out of the way and go back to sleep in the dirt for six months.
Comic strips … in print? A look at The Ducktown Weekly and other ‘zine’-style newspapers
A new print newspaper, the Ducktown Weekly, headquartered in Washington state, is taking a bet on the idea that comics do not actually need to be timely.
Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey, and the decline and fall of newspaper comics
Two decades ago, Brian Sendelbach did a series of subversive, brain-twisting comics under the guise of “Smell of Steve, Inc.” Among them was (and I may have the title wrong) “The Laughing Disease,” in which the nation is struck by a viral infection that makes its victims guffaw themselves to death. A solution is discovered. Frank M. Young | January 7, 2026
Remembering Dan Moynihan, 1973-2025
The news came out towards the end of the month that Boston cartoonist, illustrator and children’s author Dan Moynihan passed away on Dec. 21 due to a medical emergency. He was 52. His friend Dave Kiersh sent us the following remembrance in the wake of his passing. For those who wish to contribute, a GoFundMe… Read more »
‘Books are going to take longer to get to libraries’: What Baker & Taylor’s demise means for comics
Diamond’s disintegration is not the only crisis facing comics publishers these days. The latest distribution company ceasing to exist is the venerable library distributor Baker & Taylor. If you’re not entangled in the library distribution market already, B&T may not have hit your radar at all. Who are they? According to its website, Baker &… Read more »
The best comics of 2025, as chosen by our contributors
We asked our contributors what they thought were the best comics of 2025 were. Here’s what they said.
Arrivals and Departures — December 2025
You’re going to get lonely unless you continually challenge your assumptions, why can’t you be more like RJ?
The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes
Tammi Morton-Kelly puts on the monocle for a look at Rea Irving’s The Smythes (NYRC, 2025).
“Now it’s all about legacy” – Reconnecting with Jeff Nicholson after his two decades away from comics
Jeff Nicholson talks to Jason Bergman after his 2-decade hiatus from comics.
No Cheeses For Us Meeces — This Week’s Links
Were you thinking that 2025 was done with its offering of big comics-related news stories? Oh my sweet summer child.
The Never-Ending Heart-to Heart: a gallery of PCX 2025
PCX 2025: the only expo keeping us alive.
Books With Pictures’ Katie Pryde on her store and comics retail: ‘I don’t think comics are going anywhere’
Zach Rabiroff talks with Katie Pryde of Portland’s Books With Pictures about surviving debt, navigating comics, and what it takes for a diverse retailer to survive.
Dalton Webb (1972-2025), an artist’s life
Henry Chamberlain, as well as several other cartoonists and friends, remember Webb, who passed away in early November.
(Slight Return) — This Week’s Links
If you press your ear firmly to the ground, you may yet hear the thundering hooves of 2025’s best of the year lists drawing close.
We are all in the gutter: Starman at 30, part 2
Read part one of the Starman essay here “It is one thing, however, to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to your memory, whereas to know, by contrast, is actually to make each item your own.” — Seneca, Letters From a Stoic: XXXIII “Sand and Stars”, which ran in issues Alex Dueben | December 3, 2025
Rahil Mohsin on using an endangered language in the recent series, Hallubol (Speak Softly)
Rahil Mohsin speaks softly: interviewed here, for you, by J.D. Harlock.
Minute papillon! The 285 Manifesto girlcott halts the 2026 Angoulême Festival
What’s happening with the 285 Manifesto, the unprecedented girlcott against the 2026 Angoulême Festival by Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin with Marlene Agius.
We are all in the gutter: Starman at 30, part 1
Starman is 30 years old? Where did the time go? Good thing Alex Dueben is here to do a deep dive on this influential James Robinson/Tony Harris superhero series.
RIP J.D. King – 1951-2025
J.D. King, a prolific cartoonist whose stylized, jazz-infused illustrations appeared in many magazines in the 1990s, died at his home in Remsen, New York in early November, 2025. He was 74 years old. There is no exact cause of death but also no cause for suspicion. According to several people close to him, King was… Read more »
An interview with Lee Lai: ‘I’ve developed a growing fondness for confrontation’
Gina Gagliano talkes to the Cannon author about queerness, invisible magpies, kitchens, and bicycles.
The silent rebellion of certainty: Moto Hagio & Julia Gfrörer
Julia Gfrörer is perfectly capable of flawless rhetoric, as proven in the second of two Frasier parodies within World Within the World. She shows us a series of panels of environment furniture behind a conversation between two unseen characters about Maris, also unseen; the perfect hypocrisy of their judgemental framing is crystalline, sending hard glints… Read more »
