The Egg, A Symbol of Life — This Week’s Links
Let’s skip the preamble and dive straight on down into some of that unceasing news.
Article Archive
Drama! On the Diamond bankruptcy docket
An update on Diamond Comic’s bankruptcy filing from Brigid Alverson.
Arrivals and Departures — April 2025
RJ Casey looks at color and coloring and cuts a rug in April’s Arrivals and Departures.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse: A review
The documentary, Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, reviewed by William Schwartz.
An interview with Crumb biographer Dan Nadel: ‘He has this incredible instinct for survival’
The author of Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life talks with TCJ co-editor Chris Mautner about the book and its subject matter.
Greg and Fake Petre (and friends) Silver Sprocket/Cape and Cowl signing photo gallery
Two stops on Greg and Fake Petre’s Santos Sisters Springtime Tour, visited and captured by Chris Anthony Diaz.
Back to the Top of the Slide – This Week’s Links
Heading into Calvinball territory this week, whereupon the only confirmed known is to constantly expect the unknown.
Krakoa is for all mutants: How the X-Men might have saved my mental health
Jacob Walhout looks at the not-so-long-ago Krakoan X-Men saga and details his own personal connection to it. Also: A TCJ editor learns the word “requel.”
Exclusive: Hiveworks Comics announces it will end print, publishing division
Hiveworks Comics press release regarding the future of the webcomics site.
Shady Schemes and Superhero Scams: Victor Fox’s Cunning Comic Empire
Historian Christopher Irving explains the crooked history of Victor Fox Syndicate to Roger Skalbeck, professor of law.
‘Right now I’m just trying to get the stories done’: Catching up with Kyle Baker
Even among multi-hyphenates, Kyle Baker stands apart. After earning his stripes at Marvel Comics in the early ‘80s, he moved on to writing and drawing graphic novels, earning acclaim for his early works The Cowboy Wally Show (Doubleday, 1988) and Why I Hate Saturn (Piranha Press, 1990). But that was just the start of an… Read more »
Sol Brager ferments inter-generational anxiety with their memoir, Heavyweight
Sol Brager, author of Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory spoke with author and educatrix Tina Horn in late 2024 about the creation of their ink-washed paperback and the curiosity and queerness it took to make it.
April Fools!
Happy April Fool’s to those who celebrate. Enjoy this cartoonist’s diary (of sorts).
An interview with Paul Pope: ‘You can be your own audience’
Jean Marc Ah-Sen talks to Pope about his new PulpHope2 collection, as well as what’s coming up for THB and Battling Boy.
Do Not Collect $200 – This Week’s Links
Is there more Diamond news? Of course there’s more Diamond news.
Thrice upon a time in Tintin’s America
Tom Shapira examines the various competing editions of Tintin in America and muses on which one is the “true” version of Herge’s vision.
Legendary Spanish cartoonist Nazario on his life and legacy: ‘We must always be vigilant’
Nicholas Burman sits down with the famed Anarcoma creator to talk about censorship, gay rights, and breaking taboos.
Murderers’ Row – Dwayne Turner
The Ballad of Dwayne Turner, researched, written and performed by Tegan O’Neil.
Spider-Woman In The Front Seat – This Week’s Links
The sun is out, but here you are reading about the latest comics news instead. For shame.
Game of Death: A Communist rendition of Seduction of the Innocent
Hank Kennedy looks at another comic book-hating tome of the 1950s, one that came from the far-left side of the aisle.
The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection
Sean McCarthy has had it up to here with your mindless disregard for comics as a legitimate 20th century American art form, let’s walk through The Drawing Center’s KAWS collection exhibit and grow a little, for once!
