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Recent Articles
We’re Eating Ice Cream — This Week’s Links
Fully stumbling into true Bleak Midwinter behavior, as idle/clicker games have insidiously made a troubling return to daily life, inbetwixt compiling this week’s links.
Conventions, signings and exhibitions: A (west coast) 2025 photo yearbook
2025 was a challenging year for many, including myself. But comics kept us together when anxiety in the world is at an all-time high. From the end of April to a few days before Christmas, these 24 Bay Area comics events got me through 2025 with hope intact of the world after I saw what… Read more »
An interview with the late Canadian underground cartoonist Leo Burdak, creator of Gearfoot Wrecks
Pulled from Robin McConnell’s archives is an interview he and Colin Upton did with the obscure cartoonist Leo Burdak, best known for Gearfoot Wrecks.
Arrivals and Departures — February 2026
Enjoy what’s left of soup season with this collection of reviews from RJ.
Lost Marvels Volume 3: Savage Tales: Old-fashioned machismo in the EC tradition
Remember Marvel’s Savage Tales? No, the other Savage Tales. The one edited by Larry Hama. Tom Shapira takes a look at a new collection of the series published by Fantagraphics.
Whit Taylor & Mattie Lubchansky
WHIT TAYLOR/MATTIE LUBCHANSKY: The Ticket for 2028
Whit Taylor and Mattie Lubchansky spoke with Sally Madden this past fall, just after SPX. Here’s the transcripted results of that conversation.
Vision and Labour: Making Comics The art of Avery Hill Publishing
Vision and Labour: MAKING COMICS The art of Avery Hill Publishing
Let’s go see Vision and Labour: MAKING COMICS The art of Avery Hill Publishing, Hagai Palevsky takes us there.
Part VI: Jason Lives — This Week’s Links
We’re in the middle of an almost Lenten period of rainfall, here in the United Kingdom, as 40 days of cold and persistent downpours have made for perfect conditions to stay indoors and compile this week’s links,
Mystery Date! Asher Perlman’s 150 Comics Nobody Has Seen and the Job He Can’t Talk About
New Yorker cartoonist Asher Perlman has a new collection out, Hi, It’s Me Again (Andrews McMeel, 2025), and he deigns to answer most of Meghan Turbitt’s interview questions.
French comics history in A3: Jean-Christophe Menu and the return of the 30/40-collection
Jean-Christophe Menu interviewed by Robert Aman about the guys n’ gags in the cult-to-classic 30/40 collection.
Cult Leaver: Weng Pixin on Embracing her Inner Calcifer and Breaking Free with Wake Up, Pixoto!
Weng Pixin, fresh from her recent Wake Up, Pixoto! (Drawn & Quarterly, 2025) interviewed by Tania De Rozario
Sal Buscema Interview: Fantastic Fanzine #8-9 1969
Upon the latter’s passing, Gary Groth reflects on an interview he conducted with Marvel inker Sal Buscema (Silver Surfer, The Avengers, Captain America) in 1969.
Take Me Round Again — This Week’s Links
It’s time to hyper-fixate on curling and ski mountaineering for two weeks. Also, links.
Playing Dirty: The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, a new drama about a notorious comic book obscenity case
About midway through The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, the new play by Lenny Schwartz that ran recently at the Daydream Theatre Company in Providence, Rhode Island, a group of the title character’s persecutors gather in a courthouse to discuss the trial ahead. Among them is the judge overseeing the case, the prosecutor for Zach Rabiroff | February 4, 2026
Deadpool/Batman and Batman/Deadpool: The world’s last superhero comics
We’re in the multiverse now, inevitably, entering a dimension parallel to our own. The one critical difference? Last September’s Deadpool/Batman (Marvel Comics) and November’s Batman/Deadpool (DC Comics) are not only the publishers’ latest crossovers but their final superhero comics. The vanishing point of print superheroics. This is strange territory, but its lights can illuminate our Greg Hunter | February 3, 2026
An interview with D. McFadzean: ‘It’s easy to take for granted just how bizarre imagination is’
When I lived in midtown Toronto along St. Clair Avenue West, my next door neighbour and I would dissect the events that unfolded in our strange pocket of the city. When a funeral procession was accompanied by a beefy police escort, we turned to the news for answers and discovered that a gang member had… Read more »
Retail Therapy, ‘Fuck ICE’ Edition: A conversation with Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books
Zach Rabiroff speaks with the Minneapolis retailer about where he, and his community, find themselves now.
The Menace of Megalith — This Week’s Links
Rather than doomscrolling eternally in the dark, one can spend a growing portion of the day doomscrolling with the light of Sol weakly shining down on one’s face, while compiling this week’s links.
The Incredible Sal Buscema has died at the age of 89
Sal Buscema (January 26, 1936-January 24, 2026) born in Brooklyn, was best known to you all for his work with Marvel and a long tenure on The Incredible Hulk series.
Canonizing Pope: The Case For THB
Brian Nicholson dives into 23rd Street’s publication of Total THB Volume 1 to see how Paul Pope’s previously uncollected series holds up.
Enough With The Socializing, it’s Time to Read: Selections from Thought Bubble 2025
What do you think burns off more calories than a stick of carefree gum? Why, a visit with Hagai Palevsky to Thought Bubble 2025, of course!
Joe Sacco's Once and Future Riot
A Scream Into the Void
Bob Levin reads Joe Sacco’s Once and Future Riot, the world weeps.
Ghost Story: an interview with Tessa Hulls on her Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir
In May 2025, first-time author Tessa Hulls was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her stunning autobiography Feeding Ghosts, making her the only graphic novelist other than Art Spiegelman to ever win the award. Here, she reveals why she never plans to write another book.
Short Run Comix and Art Festival
You look radiant in that raincoat! A scene report from behind the tables at Short Run 2025
Bread Tarleton went to Short Run 2025, how about you?
