Article Archive
An Interview with Walter Biggins
A talk with the outgoing acquisition editor of the University Press of Misissipi, by far the leading publisher of scholarly comics criticism in North America.
Filipino Komiks and Japanese Sex Tourism: Joe Gatchalian’s Clone Woman
A curious cultural synergy.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/13/13 – Digital Comics Ultimate Apocalypse: Aftermath)
Where were you when the world ended? Pennsylvania? London? HERE?!
The Barry Windsor-Smith Interview
Barry Windsor-Smith talks to Gary Groth about transitioning out of the X titles into his own creator-owned work, Jack Kirby, subverting genre and the aesthetic state of the industry, ca. 1996.
Big Robot, Big Foot
Can you identify these comic book references in a couple of seminal Japanese comics?
Charles Barsotti
The Kansas City-based cartoonist discusses his long career in cartoons and at The New Yorker.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/6/13 – A Wafer Duly Spat to the Floor at the American Secular Mass)
More service than you can stand; more attention than you can bear.
The Jerry Moriarty Interview
A truncated conversation with the painter, cartoonist and musician.
I Totally Forgot To Get Mad At That Remake of Total Recall
Can mainstream comics hire the Green River Killer? Is the Green River Killer willing to demean himself by working for Marvel or DC?
The Comics Journal #302: Bloody Massacre Excerpt
In this excerpt from his feature “Bloody Massacre: How Fredric Wertham, Public Backlash and the 1954 Senate Delinquency Hearings Threw the Comics Industry on the Bonfire,” Warren Bernard looks at the impact of Bill Gaines “Are You a Red Dupe?” ad, and how the release of Fredric Wertham’s book may have affected the scheduling of the hearings.
