Norman Rockwell and R.O. Blechman
May 22, 2013R.O. Blechman is the subject of a retrospective at the Norman Rockwell Museum entitled The Inquiring Line. The following is his speech from the opening night. Continue reading
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival Ends
May 17, 2013The founding partners of the influential and popular independent comics festival discuss—and dispute—the reasons for its sudden demise. Continue reading
The Library of American Comics at 75 Titles (and counting)
May 13, 2013A discussion of plans, approaches and rights with the founder and associate editor of the Library of American Comics. Continue reading
Spain Rodriguez: Tributes
Words of appreciation from Bill Griffith, Gary Panter, Trina Robbins, Carol Tyler, Joe Sacco, Justin Green, R. Crumb, Lorraine Chamberlain, Art Spiegelman, Gary Groth, Kim Deitch, and others, with more to come. Continue reading
“I’m Glad to Have the Benefit Now of Existing”: A David Lasky Interview
The artist and co-creator behind The Carter Family talks about adapting history, experimenting in comics form, his love of James Joyce, and being a late bloomer. Continue reading
In the First Circle of Hell with S. Clay Wilson
A visit with S. Clay Wilson and Lorraine Chamberlin and an update on the state of the artist’s health. Continue reading
Harvey Kurtzman Estate and Al Feldstein File to Regain Copyrights to 1950s Comics
The Journal has learned that legendary EC writer/editor Al Feldstein and the estate of Mad editor/cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman have filed notices to reclaim the copyrights on their work. Continue reading
Building Memories: Mine, Hers, and Ours
Our final installment in the Building Stories essays. Continue reading
The Theo Ellsworth Interview
An interview with the author of Understanding Monster and Capacity. Continue reading
The Diagram of a Life
I finished reading Building Stories about an hour ago, and I’m already late on my deadline. Building Stories is big. It takes time to absorb. Even unpacking all the materials from the box requires time and space that I should have been giving to other things. Continue reading
From Comics History to Personal Memory
In Building Stories the narrative past, present, and future come unglued from one another, reminding us that reading itself may also be an issue of memory, of what we recall and when we recall it.
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