“It’s Just So BD!”: A Fair to Remember
Reporting from SoBD, the annual comics festival located in the heart of Paris.
Article Archive
Excerpt: Shiver
Thanks to Viz, we’re pleased to present this excerpt from Junji Ito’s upcoming collection, Shiver.
Wet Earth
Lala Albert’s new book from Sonatina, with drawings far more accomplished than anything Albert has done before.
Please Buy A Different Moisturizer
Today at The Journal, we’ve got two buckets of sauce for you. First, dip yourself into a pool an interview with cartoonist Tim Lane, who is out there holding the line for single issue comic books for more than just nostalgic reasons. The second bucket is to come!
America as Haunted House: An Interview with Tim Lane
“I don’t think traditional comics will survive. But I’m trying one last gasp now before they go under completely.”
Excerpt: Happy Hour In America
Thanks to Tim Lane himself, we’re happy to present this excerpt of Happy Hour In America.
Episode 25: Emil Ferris
Ferris (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters) talks superheroes and dada, politics and accessibility, Will Eisner, Ted Leo, and more.
Kylie Minogue Fans Don’t
Sleep well, you sons of New Hampshire, you daughters of Slaughter Beach.
“I Want a Blank Area to Work With”: Connor Willumsen on Anti-Gone
A meeting of the minds between the creator of Anti-Gone, one of the most striking and intriguing books of the year, and the groundbreaking cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw.
Loomings
I hadn’t read a comic book in months when I picked up The Saga of the Sub-Mariner – the single longest period of time in my entire life without reading a comic. Why did I decide to break my fast with The Saga of the Sub-Mariner?
Plump With Desire
It’s Monday, and that means new Content geared that has Maximum Share-ability.
The Green Hand and Other Stories
Nicole Claveloux’s comics give fantastic flight to common emotions in colors and landscapes that border on the surreal, and are glimpses of a road not taken, in which comics evolved differently.
Is This the Dave Gibbons Way?
In his new book, the artist of Watchmen tries to explain “How Comics Work”.
“FYI: I’m Going to Make a Lot of Books”: A Conversation with Zainab Akhtar & Peow
I think that there are a lot of chumps working in comics and even big “older publishers” are just moving so slowly and still making mistakes.
“Chosen People”: A Conversation with Drew Friedman
The great caricaturist talks about celebrity, artistic cruelty, his family, his audience, and (of course) Shemp Howard.
