Ellen Lindner: Day Four
In today’s installment, Ellen embraces ritual to soothe her baseball woes, clears a deadline out of the way…and makes a giant life choice involving her hair color.
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“I’m Still in Art-Monster Mode”: A Conversation with Katie Fricas
Katie Fricas’s peculiar, underground-reminiscent work has appeared in The New York Times, PEN America, and The New Yorker. Here, she talks growing up in a military family, performing in front of crowds, and pigeons.
Rather Like Fairy Land Isn’t It
It’s Wednesday here at TCJ, probably means it’s Wednesday wherever you are: that’s how days work, most of the time. Today, we’ve got our last look back at 2018 before committing ourselves fully to 2019. It’s a special edition of our Retail Therapy column, with a whole mess of retailers swinging by to let us… Read more »
Ellen Lindner: Day Three
Opera, books, listening, Instagram. It couldn’t get more slice of life than it’s getting this Wednesday. A birthday approaches!
The Best Comics Of 2018: A Retail Perspective!
In our first Retail Therapy of 2019, we’re hearing from some of our favorite shopkeeps about what got them most excited to unlock the doors in 2018.
Ellen Lindner: Day Two
We all have our various ways to kill cubicle time when the work is slow to come. For example: Tea. On a Tuesday?
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 3)
The story continues with Al Capp and the birth of Li’l Abner.
Dawg, In Furs
It’s 2019, and you’ve arrived just in time for our first Cartoonist Diary of the year.
Hello, Culture Lovers! Stan the Man Raps with Marvel Maniacs at James Madison University
In March of 1978, Stan Lee sat on a panel at James Madison University’s Fine Arts Festival.
Ellen Lindner: Day One
Ellen faces the withdraw that follows binge-watching, grapples with…what is that, Hale & Hearty? No matter. A new Diary begins!
Best Comics
Contributors and friends share their favorite comics of the year. The best top ten lists on the internet.
TCJ 2018 Year in Review
Time to catch up on some of the best comics writing of the year.
“‘Best’ Is a Bullshit Word”: Phoebe Gloeckner on Editing The Best American Comics 2018
The eminently quotable (and phenomenally talented) artist, writer, teacher and, whether she claims it or not, critic, sits down with Sean T. Collins to talk about how she handled the selection process behind the most recent edition of Best American Comics.
Forgotten Friends of the Nib: Caricature & Victor Hugo’s Head
If French press cartoons are unashamedly rude, what’s at the heart of such a caustic culture? The answer can be found in a current Paris exhibition, Caricatures: Victor Hugo On Page One.
George Freeman
According to Fiffe, George Freeman’s got it all–but don’t let a blurb convince you. Fiffe’s got the man’s actual work here to make the case!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 2)
Our story begins with Ham Fisher and the birth of Joe Palooka.
Héctor German Oesterheld’s Contributions to Mort Cinder
While the construction of Mort Cinder has been noted to be a flexible and collaborative effort between Breccia and Oesterheld, there are distinct and recurrent motifs in it which suggests it was not put together for reasons of mere entertainment or with little forethought. If anything, there is a coherence and depth in its plotting which suggests a steady hand at the tiller.
