It’s come to this. If the Cartoon Art Museum raises $5,000 by Wondercon, my husband will get the Bat-Symbol shaved into his head. I guess I always knew it was just a matter of time.
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Posted by Shaenon Garrity on March 11th, 2010 at 2:28 PMAssault on New Olympus #1, Incredible Hercules #140
Posted by Tom Crippen on March 10th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Crossovers: Big and dumb, so why don’t kids like them?
Rich Kreiner’s Yearlong Best of the Year: Gotham Central Book Two by Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka
Posted by Rich Kreiner on March 3rd, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Not being a reader of detective novels or viewer of cop shows, I didn’t know there were such things as “police procedural tales” until I read the introduction to Gotham Central Book Two: Jokers and Madmen.
Rich Kreiner: Meet the Comics Press: MELUS Vol. 32 #3
Posted by Rich Kreiner on February 26th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
At their best, academic journals are driven by useful ideas devised with rigor and discrimination. Their treatments explore intriguing themes and rewarding connections unlikely to be supported in other venues. Abstract concepts are habitually framed with an exacting, developed language in order to capture with precision the full subtlety of their thought.
TCJ Audio Archives: Todd MacFarlane
Posted by Dirk Deppey on February 22nd, 2010 at 1:09 AM
New to the website! It’s a clash of titans as executive editor Gary Groth confronts the Spawn creator and Image Comics co-founder in a no-holds-barred debate over artistic and commercial freedom vs. responsibility, originally recorded in 1992 for TCJ #152.
Click here to download:
Part One (14.5MB MP3 audio file, 63:28 minutes)
Part Two (4MB MP3 audio file, 17:39 minutes)
Legion of Super-Heroes: Enemy Rising by Jim Shooter, Francis Manapul, Livesay and others
Posted by Rich Kreiner on February 18th, 2010 at 9:00 AM
©2008 DC Comics.
In delivering solid genre fare, Shooter betrays no greater creative fire (nor grander professional ambitions) than that of a highly reliable caretaker.
TCJ Blogs
Top TCJ Stories
- 1. The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part Four of Four)
- 2. Trina Robbins: Valerie Barclay 1922 – 2010
- 3. Valerie Barclay: Spurned
- 4. Copyright’s Dubious History
- 5. The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part Three of Four)
- 6. The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part Two of Four)
- 7. The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part One of Four)
- 8. Norman Pettingill: His Life
- 9. Journalista reputation-destroying extra: Four years’ work
- 10. Christopher Handley’s Attorney Comments On His Case





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