Article Archive
CHARLIE Horses: On Caricature and Outrage
An exploration of the impulse to caricature, a look at incidents of outrage and retaliation against cartoonists, and a personal attempt to come to terms with racist cartoons from America’s past.
What Was So Queer About Comics in 2014?
A look back at the year in LGBTQ comics
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/14/15 – Graven Images)
Religion and horror: who’d have thought?
America’s Own Charlie Hebdo
A U.S. legal antecedent to Charlie Hebdo.
Cartoons of Mass Destruction: The Whole Story Behind the Danish 12
In 2006, 12 Danish cartoonists controversially drew pictures of Muhammad at the urging of Flemming Rose, the culture editor of the weekly Jyllands-Posten. This news story from The Comics Journal #275 (April 2006) offers a multitude of perspectives — from cartoonists, Danes, Muslims, Danish Muslims — and is being rerun to help supply context for the Charles Hebdo killings.
PABLO and Charlie
A report from Paris in the aftermath
2014’s Critic of the Year!
The title says it all. Or does it?
On Zap
A few thoughts about Zap and its place in comics and culture.
For Real This Time
Shuddering wheezingly back to life, time waits for no one, and Joe McCulloch is here with his weekly guide to the best-sounding new comics available in stores. Devoted readers of the comics form will know what to do. Meanwhile, elsewhere, an incomplete collection of links from the past two weeks: [UPDATED TO ADD:] —News. This… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/7/15 – Drifting Back)
Picking up where we left off…
The Fukui Ei’ichi Incident and the Prehistory of Komaga-Gekiga
Though generous to his fans, and generally warm with his peers, Tezuka Osamu (1928-89) was not above letting professional jealousy get the best of him. The first time this trait reared its head in public was in 1953, when, in a series about comics-making and comics aesthetics for Manga Shōnen, the new prince of manga… Read more »
Our Best of 2014
Dan and Tim pick the most memorable reviews, interviews, articles, and other stories published on this site in the year 2014.
God Rest Ye Merrie: The Letters of Walt Kelly and Young Peter Brown
Here’s a true story for the holiday season about a famous 45-year-old cartoonist and an eleven-year-old boy.
Greg Theakston Says the Kirby Museum Can Look Forward to a Theft Complaint for Christmas
In what has to be one of the world’s slowest-building controversies, Theakston’s grievance with the Kirby Museum has been building for some time.
