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We’ll Go Back To Mourning Moebius When Alan Moore Tells Jason Aaron That He Didn’t Mean To Hurt His Feelings
Tucker Stone debuts the TCJ incarnation of his legendary weekly roundup of the latest funnybooks.
Jonny Negron!
The intelligence behind Jonny Negron’s comics transforms his low-culture and underground influences into fully formed work of surprising sophistication.
This is a Love Letter: An Interview with Eliza Frye
Illustrator-turned-comics artist Eliza Frye has just put out her first book, a rich-looking, embossed hardback with a dark, dreamy image on the dust cover.
Renée French
Mike talks to the cartoonist behind such disturbing works as The Ticking and Marbles in My Underpants about style, what’s acceptable (and not) in today’s comics world, and her second career as a children’s book creator.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/14/12 – 2 or 3 Things I Know About Gir)
Homage to a horny goof.
Tributes to Jean “Moebius” Giraud
An ongoing series of tributes to Moebius from his fellow artists.
Jean “Moebius” Giraud, 1938-2012
Jean Giraud, the French cartoonist best known by his pen name “Moebius,” died Saturday in a Paris hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer, at the age of 73.
Study Group Comics
Shop talk with Zack Soto.
An Interview With Jean “Moebius” Giraud
Kim Thompson’s 1987 interview.
Guns & Butter
Now, it is time to reset this column. It’s not about alternative manga. It started out thinking it was but now it’s changing.
“This Man, This Monster”: Super-Heroes and Super-Sexism.
Ken Parille looks at Super-Ugly Muscles and Male Superhero Outfits.
Sheldon Moldoff, April 14, 1920 – February 29, 2012
Golden age ghost artist Sheldon Moldoff Joins that great bullpen in the sky.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/7/12 – Screaming ’80s)
In uttering the correct pronunciation of Métal Hurlant last week, Dan Nadel summoned the powers of the Atom Style to my command, damning us all. Plus: upcoming comics.
The Sheldon Moldoff Interview
This interview with Golden Age artist Sheldon Moldoff (Batman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl), conducted by Steve Ringgenberg, ran in The Comics Journal #214 (July 1999).
David Mazzucchelli Disavows Forthcoming Batman Reprint
The artist speaks out about the forthcoming bungled reprint.