Campbell’s Rules of Comprehension
Reading comprehension for comics.
Reading comprehension for comics.
Cooking up the freshest capsule summaries of whatever looks to be coming. PLUS: “Movies of the French”
In this excerpt from the message board roundtable discussion on what to include in The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics, edited by Art Speigelman, Spiegelman, Chris Duffy, Paul Karasik, Paul Levitz and Jeet Heer figure out the book’s target audience and debate if selections from Mad magazine are suitable.
Chatting with the cartoonist about process, communication and the status of autobiography.
A visit with one of the true greats of American underground comics in his Paris studio.
Greatness and minimalism in a disposable kid’s comic . . .
In this interview from TCJ #216, Megan Kelso and Gary Groth talk about the latter’s artistic development, sex in comics, self-publishing minicomics in the 1990s, and much more: introduction by Jason Lutes (Berlin, CCS).
Bob Levin’s story about Robert Crumb’s lawyer, Albert Morse, begins with the Amazon “Keep on Truckin” lawsuit.
Everyone wants to know the future of comics. Here’s one of ’em.
In this brief excerpt from the extensive Maurice Sendak interview in The Comics Journal #302, Sendak talks to Groth about 9/11, Outside Over There and how children process memory.
The glory of the sex and violence of EC Comics.
In this excerpt from The Comics Journal #302, comic-book artist Lew Sayre Schwartz asks Roy Crane about the advent of continuity in his adventure newspaper strips.