Jared Gardner « The Comics Journal

Reviews of Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile, Lewis Trondheim’s Little Nothings Vol. 3, and C. C. Colbert and Tanitoc’s Booth this week at the Guttergeek wing of the TCJ emporium!

Guttergeek SUNDAY FUNNIES: the Oscar Night edition

Posted by Jared Gardner on March 7th, 2010 at 2:20 PM

At Guttergeek: a special Oscar night version of SUNDAY FUNNIES: http://www.tcj.com/guttergeek/?p=495

2010 Festival of Cartoon Art

Posted by Jared Gardner on March 5th, 2010 at 8:31 AM

One of the myriad pleasures of studying comics here at Ohio State University is the opportunity to work closely with the remarkable folks at the (recently renamed and soon-to-be-rehoused) Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and to…

Guttergeek review: Lucky: Season Two

Posted by Jared Gardner on March 3rd, 2010 at 12:36 PM

Gabrielle Bell, Lucky (gbell.wordpress.com, 2009- ).

It’s autobio comic week here at my wing of guttergeek, and what better place to start than by calling everyone’s attention to the recently launched “second season” of Gabrielle…

Sunday Funnies: F. M. Howarth

Posted by Jared Gardner on February 28th, 2010 at 6:05 PM

This week’s Sunday Funnies is a gallery of some pre-Sunday funnies sequential comics from F. M. Howarth.

Guttergeek review: 20th Century Boys Vol. 7

Posted by Jared Gardner on February 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 PM

Naoki Urasawa, 20th Century Boys (Viz, 2010). $12.95, paperback.

This is not the review I wrote. The review I wrote mysteriously disappeared off my computer sometime between the hours of 11PM on Saturday and 7AM on Sunday.…

Sunday Funnies: Penny

Posted by Jared Gardner on February 21st, 2010 at 12:20 PM

This week’s Sunday Funnies @ Guttergeek features twelve Sundays of the deliciously imitable Penny by Harry Haenigsen.

Guttergeek review: SUBLIFE

Posted by Jared Gardner on February 14th, 2010 at 7:04 PM

John Pham, Sublife. Volume 2 (Fantagraphics, 2009). $7.99, paperback.

I’ve been waiting over a year for the second installment of Pham’s grab-bag comic, Sublife. The first volume, which came out in 2008, focused primarily on an extended…