The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part Two: Elmo Without Elmo
Dec 10, 2018The later years, when Elmo made way for Little Debbie. Continue reading
The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part One: The Road to Elmo
Dec 7, 2018An appreciation of the 1940s strip Elmo, which was both ahead of its time and behind the times—possessing the absurd cool of a Nathanael West or S. J. Perelman and droll ensemble comedy reminiscent of Thimble Theater. Continue reading
Sammy Stein on the Art/ifacts of the Real and the Virtual
Dec 6, 2018Stein is at the forefront of the new French Abstract Formalist Comics, using photography, sculpture, and printed works to explore ontology and epistemology of representational image, among other things. Continue reading
Bandy Designys: New French Comics Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
Dec 13, 2018Matt Seneca returned from his French vacation with a stack of comics. I know they call them something different over there, but i’m not over there, am I? Let’s see what he thought! Continue reading
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief
Dec 11, 2018The story of Al Capp and Ham Fisher, two cartooning geniuses, their rise to celebrity and their furious interactions with each other, is the stuff of epic adventure fiction,
but here, it is fact. Continue reading
Welcome to the Strip Mine
Dec 3, 2018One of the great joys of comic book collecting is longbox surfing. You know what I mean, standing for hours sifting through filthy, disorganized boxes, carefully un-taping bags of one cheap floppy after another, scanning the credits, flipping the pages, … Continue reading
10 Cent MuseumAnything But Reality
How both George Herriman’s final Krazy Kat strips and the overpacked silliness of Mort Weisinger’s Silver Age Superman illustrate the true power of cartoon storytelling. Continue reading
Monsters Eat CriticsH.P. Moorecraft: On the Ending of Providence
The climax of the book is Alan Moore’s meta-meditation on the shape and nature of his comics career, written as he prepares to leave the medium. Continue reading
Event HorizonEvent Horizon: 1985-’87 in Comics
The roots of this moment stretch back to late 70’s and early 80’s but it seems to reach apotheosis precisely during this short span. Something happened in comics between 1985 and 1987. Continue reading
Hare TonicAndy Capp is Sixty This Year
On the face of it, the Andy Capp comic strip ought to have failed the moment it arrived on these shores in 1963. Continue reading
GridGhost World at Twenty: Daniel Clowes’s Dialogue
Innovation in the 1990s: a comic book in which people talk like people. Continue reading
Riff RaffWet Earth
Lala Albert’s new book from Sonatina, with drawings far more accomplished than anything Albert has done before. Continue reading
Comic Book DecalogueEpisode 25: Emil Ferris
Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters) talks superheroes and dada, politics and accessibility, Will Eisner, Ted Leo, and more. Continue reading
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