Married to Comics: A Powerful Film About the Lives of Justin Green and Carol Tyler
John Kelly reports from the world premiere of Married to Comics, a documentary about the lives of memoir comic masters Justin Green and Carol Tyler.
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Haze Cave
Haze Cave is a comic of urban contemplation – drawn in texture, like breathing in the downtown core. Pigao works in deep and subtle charcoals, a murky cloud of swelling blacks and rusted reds occasionally brightened by cheerful blues: the specter of daylight. These gloomy, deep, organic shades breathe into minimalist cartooning and backdrops of… Read more »
Remembering Joe Matt
A collection of tributes to the cartoonist Joe Matt, who died earlier this month at the age of 60. Longtime friends mingle with young artists Matt befriended, affording us a variety of new perspectives on one of the standout memoirists of his generation.
Joe Matt Dies at 60
Michael Dean’s obituary for one of the standouts of autobio comics; Joe Matt died on Sunday, September 17, aged 60.
Work and Pleasure: Diana Schutz, Today
The longtime industry editor and newly-minted Eisner Hall of Fame inductee reflects on business, technology, industry politics, and an unyielding passion for comics.
Otomo The Complete Works 1: Jūsei (JAPANESE EDITION)
PLEASE NOTE: This is a Japanese-language book, published only in Japan, collecting the very earliest comics, including previously unpublished amateur works, by the enduringly popular mangaka Ōtomo Katsuhiro. A series of 7” x 10” softcovers published through Kōdansha, Otomo The Complete Works has followed an irregular schedule since January of 2022. Each book is numbered… Read more »
The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World – Part Two
The second and final part of John Kelly’s two-part look at the cartoonists behind the scenes of Pee-wee’s Playhouse – this time looking at merchandise, and plenty of it!
20 km/h
A word for Woshibai, then, author of the new collection 20 km/h, the latest Chinese import from Drawn & Quarterly – “anonymous” and “underground,” per the publisher, if that designation carries any historical weight outside local market conditions. The question emerges: what exactly does it mean to be an “underground” cartoonist in China in 2023?… Read more »
X-Amount of Comics: 1963 (WhenElse?!) Annual!
Revenge being best served at the temperature of the sun, Don Simpson’s X-Amount of Comics arcs inwards like a flammable contraption lashed together with barbed wire and catapulted from some war zone far afield, in this case one all the way back in the year 1993. Petroleum vapor in its wake, rivets rattling from the… Read more »
Keeping MAD Alive: A Look at Claptrap
Inside a new crowdfunded book of movie parodies by MAD magazine veterans Tom Richmond & Desmond Devlin.
The Joe Matt Interview
In this extensive interview from The Comics Journal #183 (January 1996), Christopher Brayshaw speaks with the cartoonist Joe Matt (1963-2023) about his career to date.
Seth on Joe Matt, 1995
From The Comics Journal #183 (January 1996): Christopher Brayshaw followed up his Joe Matt interview with a conversation with the Peepshow cartoonist’s friend and fellow cartoonist, Seth.
“There’s A Different Kind Of Energy Around You And Your Work. And That’s Just Life”: Jillian Tamaki at Mid-Career
As part of her chronicle of comics in Toronto, Kim Jooha sits down for an oeuvre-wide talk with Jillian Tamaki, one of the most prominent practitioners on the scene.
Trying To Ice-Skate Uphill – This Week’s Links
One time I messed up a comics trivia event because I forgot the name of Buster Brown’s dog. He ought to apologize to me.
“This Is Where We Make Things Right”: A Report from SPX 2023
Last weekend was the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD, and Jason Bergman brings back a survey of the people and events that populated this year’s installment.
Misty: 45 Years of Fear
A word about density, perhaps? I’m always struck anew by questions of density when I dip into the British Bronze Age. It’s not perhaps the same kind of density you might expect from a particularly wordy American comic book. We Yanks quite loved our purple prose in the 1970s, but it wasn’t so big in… Read more »
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
I first discovered Julia Wertz in 2018 when I was living in San Francisco, working at California College of the Arts as the admin for their grad comics program. Looking back now, those were heady days that exposed me to a lot of different comic-makers I had no clue about, some of whom I now… Read more »
Box Brown and The He-Man Effect
Matt Petras profiles artist Brian “Box” Brown, veteran indie cartoonist and a recent specialist in nonfiction graphic novels and journalistic weekly strips.
Arrivals and Departures – September 2023
Wow! RJ Casey’s new column all about minicomics and the contemporary small press starts here!
Roaming
Connection. We all crave it. To people, places and things. When we have it, it’s magic. When we don’t, it’s misery. How these connections are made, sustained and nourished is explored by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s latest collaborative graphic novel, Roaming. The book’s title suggests both the wandering spirit of the three young travelers traversing… Read more »
“I Kind Of Have My Next Three Years Fully Planned”: An Interview with Caroline Cash
Jason Bergman sits down with Caroline Cash, the Ignatz-winning creator of the ongoing solo anthology series PeePee PooPoo, and bigger projects to come.
Den Vol. 1: Neverwhere
Welcome to uncertain ground. When Richard Corben sidled into American comics’ mainstream after decades of Adults Only work and self-publication, he was greeted as a conquering hero: ushered into prime position on a prestige Batman project, garlanded with fulsome Alan Moore introductions, catered to by star writers intently providing vehicles for his talent. This country’s… Read more »
