The Devil Never Sleeps
Your wretched editor writes about Chantal Montellier’s newly-translated Social Fiction and Frédéric Coché’s new, needs-no-translation L’Almageste.
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“Go Bleed On That Page, Hero!”: The Tradd Moore Interview
Blasting though the realms of perception, Jean Marc Ah-Sen astral links with Tradd Moore, artist of a decade’s worth of lysergic genre comics and auteur of the soon-to-be-collected Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise.
Goodbye Reason, Goodbye Rhyme – This Week’s Links
Two dozen crabs on the trawl, and one of them is mine.
Remembering Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr.
Longtime retailer and comics distributor Bud Plant remembers a friend: the collector, historian and publisher Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., who died earlier this month.
“This Elusive Quality”: Moby-Dick on the Comics Page
For 80 years, Tom Shapira has hunted the white whale… or, at least, he’s read 80 years’ worth of Moby-Dick comics. And the tale they tell is literal, prosaic: shrinking before the Leviathan.
Dialogue Balloons: Language and Constraint
Jason is chasing that strange alchemy of words and pictures, and with him is cartoonist Oliver East and illustrator/philosopher Helen De Cruz.
City of Glass: It Was a Phone Call That Started It
A special, first-time-online transcript of a momentous meeting between four major talents: Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, David Mazzucchelli and Art Spiegelman discuss the making of the graphic novel of City of Glass, at it happened at Comic Arts Brooklyn in 2013.
Our Summer Fling Is Over – This Week’s Links
I’m sorry… I’m so distraught that the local pretzel stand burned down… I can’t write anything, I’m sorry…
Dear Mini: Natalie Norris On Her First Book
Matt Petras discusses Dear Mini, a memoir of friendship in troubled times, with author Natalie Norris – a Center for Cartoon Studies graduate releasing her first collected book.
Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., 1946-2023
Remembering a generous curator, an avid collector, an astute connoisseur – Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. died this past week, aged 76.
Comics for Prisoners: A Roundtable
Do incarcerated people want to read comics? Absolutely. But how can they? Ian Thomas speaks with representatives of four organizations dedicated to getting books into the hands of American prisoners – comics included.
That Brilliant Breaking
Tegan examines the work of cartoonist Katie Skelly, with a special emphasis on the new, expanded re-release of her erotic comics collection The Agency.
Memories of the “Live-in Age”: Hayashi Sei’ichi’s and Kamimura Kazuo’s Dōsei Manga
Flashback to the early 1970s, as Natsume Fusanosuke recalls the situation of his youth, living alone with a woman and reading two landmark manga about young people living together: Hayashi Sei’ichi’s Red Colored Elegy and Kamimura Kazuo’s Dōsei jidai.
Dreamers & Make-Believers
It’s hard enough running a comic book store during a pandemic, but how about opening one? Dreamers & Make-Believers pulled if off, going from pop-up retailer to brick-and-mortar in Baltimore, and Zach’s got the story.
“A Simple Story Done Bombastically”: James Stokoe on Orphan and the Five Beasts
Catching up with the unmistakable artist of Orc Stain, some standout Godzilla and Alien comics, and the ongoing martial arts saga Orphan and the Five Beasts.
Had A Summer Job Breaking and Entering – This Week’s Links
I said the word news so many times it sounds funny, so now I have a new word: triumph.
An Excerpt from The Comics Journal #309: At Last, The Crap We Need: A Pop Culture Saga
In this excerpt, Helen Chazan reconsiders Kim Thompson’s landmark essay “A Modest Proposal: More Crap is What We Need” by way of Brian K. Vaughan’s and Fiona Staples’ Image megahit Saga.
Chekhov in the Funny Papers
This time Bob’s taking on Where have you been?, a collection of 25 years’ worth of comics from artist Ivana Filipovich, who drew for years, stopped for years, then drew for years more.
“I Need To Go Down Every Avenue That’s Available”: The Leah Hayes Interview
Sit yourself down for a career-spanning interview with eclectic cartoonist, illustrator and musician Leah Hayes – everything from dreams to songwriting to craft and parenthood is covered, as the artist tours her first children’s book.
Carryin’ Fire In A Horn – This Week’s Links
That certainly was a lot of ways to describe Stan Lee.
An Excerpt from The Comics Journal #309: Fair Warning – Hyena Hell
In this excerpt from the “Fair Warning” column in The Comics Journal #309—introducing readers to up-and-coming artists—the cartoonist, teacher and self-publisher Hyena Hell talks to Kristy Valenti about movement and backgrounds in her work.
Joseon Attorney: Webtoons on the Screen
A short overview of a characteristic South Korean webtoon – not extremely popular, but the engine of small sectors of popular culture, and enough to cultivate a cartooning middle class increasingly foreign to the west.
When Adult Comics Came to Sweden
A profile of Swedish publisher Horst Schröder, whose Epix Förlag brought the world of adult comics to Scandinavia, before collapsing amidst legal and financial woes.
