Silver Sprocket, the San Francisco-based publisher and retailer, currently finds itself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that is personally held by owner Avi Ehrlich, the Comics Journal has learned.
Jon Allen interviewed by Colin Blanchette.
Dana Simpson interviewed by William Schwartz on the long-running Phoebe and Her Unicorn, the ladder up and down of optioning for the screen and trans representation.
Absolutely no one should rely on comics to save the world and no one should rely on comics criticism to do anything but make you, personally, feel bad. Here’s this month’s column.
A New Yorker cover by Chris Ware has a lot to say about a lot of things.
Irene Velentzas sits down with the Insectopolis author to discuss his latest staggering feat of art, his revolutionary artistic perspective, and his robust five-decade career.
A quieter period on the news front than there has otherwise been, of late, cooling down the weekly cycle as the weather in the northern hemisphere starts heating up, which is not to say that there are not still links to be had.
95 years go by so fast: Malcy Duff’s The 95 Year Old Character.
In this chapter essay, Shimizu applies his knowledge of pre-modern Japanese art and visual-textual books to what artistic works and traditions shaped the creation of the fifteen-volume Hokusai Manga book series.
Helen Chazan reporting from transgender center of gravity at TCAF 2025.
It’s been a rocky transition for Diamond Comic Distributors, which was officially sold to the entity known as Sparkle Pop on May 15, and for the publishers and retailers who do business with them.
A bad week for losing giants of other creative fields, and yet the world continues to turn, as it will do, and so comics news continues to be generated, as it will do, subsequently collated into a fresh set of this week’s links.
Jean-Louis Gauthey is interviewed by Robert Aman.
In this TCJ #311 excerpt, comics journalist Sarah Glidden spoke to cartoonist Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands) about adapting to an internet audience and where Beaton is going to go from here.
In her first piece for the Journal, Kaoru Kumi dives down into the first few episodes of Toriyama’s seminal manga series to see why it works and how it lead to Dragon Ball.
R. Fiore returns to the Comics Journal to offer some thoughts on Robert Crumb, racism and this here life in Modern America.
Valerio Stive remembers the late comics writer, novelist, screenwriter, actor, and singer-songwriter, who passed away back in January.
Excerpted from The Comics Journal #311: Ben Juers wrote about Lettrists Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand and Roberto Altmann, and their theories.
Kayla E. in conversation with John Kelly and Mark Newgarden about her memoir comic, Precious Rubbish (Fantagraphics, 2025).
Court cases, unionization and sad passings dot this week’s news.
Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy: The Graphic Adaptation
Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy: The Graphic Adaptation (Pantheon, 2025), was not terribly well-received by Greg Hunter.
