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
This Week in ComicsTH[ESE] (PAST) WEEK(S) IN COMICS! (12/24/13 & 12/31/13 – Tuesdays in Retrospect)
EXTRA! BREAKING! EXCLUSIVE! I read a bunch of dubious comic books on my holiday! REVIEWS INSIDE! Continue reading
Riff RaffBest of Greatest Hits 2006-2012
The Internet remembers for me so I don’t have to. Continue reading
High-LowThe Wuvable World of Ed Luce
Some have referred to Luce’s Oaf comics as “the gay version of Scott Pilgrim,” but the obvious alt-comics comparison is Jaime Hernandez. Continue reading
This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/18/13 – Father Christmas is Unwell)
Proving once again that a lump of coal is never too far from a lake of fire. Continue reading
What Was Alternative Manga?Bengal’s Drighangchoo: An Interview with Deeptanil Ray
I had been under the impression that Comix India, inaugurated in 2010, was the first amateur comics magazine in India. It might have been the first with significant heft and geographical reach. Chronologically, however, there is at least one precedent. Continue reading
No One Knows You're A DogLife with/out a Signature
It’s common for Internet denizens to share favorite comics and illustrations without paying much attention to the source. But some go further than that. Continue reading
This Week in ComicsTHIS WEEK IN COMICS! (12/11/13 – Winter Famine)
Just look what you’ve found behind the advent calendar window this week! Continue reading
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