I'm gearing up for TCAF this weekend and have been tricked into moderating a panel Friday night with Chester Brown, Seth, Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware. All men who are smarter, more successful and more liked than I am. I'm sure they'll go easy on me, right guys? Uh, guys? I'm working through my fear. How? By working on TCJ, of course.
So! I should note that you have days, or perhaps only hours until the vaunted TCJ archive goes behind ye ol' pay wall. Right now we're up to issue 68. Might I suggest having a peek at issue 66? Some fine Scholz and Groth material in there.
On to some links:
Over at The Panelists there's a bit about young Hugh Hefner's early life as a wannabe cartoonist.
Here's a short but tantalizing article about the comics publisher Lev Gleason (Crime Does Not Pay, among others), written by his grandnephew, who is also working on a full length biography. (via PF) This connects back to earlier posts by Kent Worcester, and including some of this material, over here.
Harry Mendryk looks at Jack Kirby's comics about the mob. I love that Kirby's career is so vast that you can look at not only how he treats a given subject over a thirty-year span, but also track the changes in the medium itself as he does so. Fun.
I can't believe I missed this exhibition of Charles Schulz love letters. No excuse. Jeez.
Here's an interview with cartoonist and historian Brian Walker, someone you don't see interviewed that much, but has certainly lived the history.
