Family is a cult: Troy Nixey and Yo Kuri on their upcoming horror comic, Blood Magic Tales
Yo Kuri and Troy Nixey talk to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about their new collaboration, Blood Magic Tales.
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Remembering John Cassaday, Dec. 14, 1971-Sept. 9, 2024
Alex Dueben provides a memorial to the Planetary and X-Men artist, who died back in September.
Cold Weather Blues – This Week’s Links
Well, we are a whole 17 days into the new year, a scant quarter of a century into this increasingly less-new millennium, and we’ve already hit 2025’s allocation of Too Much News.
Excerpt from Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund
An excerpt from Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk (Fantagraphhics, 2024).
Political cartoonists on facing Donald Trump, again: ‘There is no consensus reality anymore’
Shrinking newspaper circulations. Social media morass. First amendment rights. Zach Rabiroff talks to a variety of cartoonists about all that and more as we head into a second Donald Trump administration.
“I am not a Satanist, but I love the devil” an interview with Corinne Halbert
Corinne Halbert of Acid Nun fame talks to Jim Falcone about meals of human flesh.
What will potential tariffs mean for comics publishers in 2025? ‘We’ll likely have less customers’
Gina Gagliano talked to a host of comics publishers to get a sense of what the potential effects of increased tariffs from the new Trump administration could be.
In The Bleak Midwinter – This Week’s Links
2025 seems to be off to an expectedly chaotic start, but here are some links to provide a hint of stability.
‘I’m Walking Backwards For This Strip’: Stan Mack on Real Life Funnies and craft of listening
Matthew Thurber talked to Stan Mack about his collection of Real Life Funnies, listening, and the dearly departed New York City of the late 20th century.
The Comet of Chaland
We at TCJ are pleased to republish Aug Stone’s 2015 essay on the clear-line master Yves Chaland.
Michel Fiffe on the Death of Copra ‘I want to identify what better means’
David Moses talks to the Copra creator about bringing his long-running series to a conclusion.
Barry Malzberg: At an hourly wage rate that would astonish even a teamster
In this Carter Scholz column from The Comics Journal #82 (July 1983), he sings the praises of editor and SF writers’ writer Barry Malzberg (Herovit’s World, Galaxies, Beyond Apollo, The Falling Astronauts), who died on Dec. 19.
Captain January – This Week’s Links
What better way to retrain your bite than with a flavourful selection of this week’s links?
John Stanley’s lost Little Lulu stories: Summer camp shenanigans
Let’s start the new year off right, with two recently rediscovered Little Lulu stories by John Stanley and Irving Tripp, courtesy of Frank Young and Tom Devlin.
The best comics of 2024, as chosen by TCJ contributors
What were the best comics of this past year? No idea, but here’s some stuff our contributors really liked.
“Make a Thing, Make it Now” Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation
Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo thaw a fish, watch movies on a CRT, point and click.
Christmas Wrapping – This Week’s Links
Well the weather outside is increasingly constantly frightful, but below we have the final links of the year, which are intermittently delightful.
A book report from the Thought Bubble Festival
Hagai Palevsky dumps his Thought Bubble purchases all over our nice, clean desk and starts talking about three comics that caught his eye.
Where Comics Can Take Their Rightful Place as Righteous Trash: A Look at Matt Seneca’s Pure Evil
Matt Seneca’s Pure Evil may only be 40 pages, but it’s worth 4,000 words of noir-flavored comics industry criticism and history.
Arrivals and Departures — December 2024
RJ Casey takes a dry bath in the shredded pages of this month’s zines, but is this year’s zine the anthology zine? Only he and not you can decide!
‘It’s not an homage, but at least it’s an understanding’: Mark McGuire & Alain Chevarier on Clay Footed Giants
Tahneer Oksman talks to the co-authors about their new book on fatherhood, childhood and generational trauma.
The Eyes of Fred Hembeck’s Eyes by Malcy Duff
Malcy Duff returns to the Journal with “a comic to be read through cartoon eyes.”
Yule Be Sorry – This Week’s Links
It’s the penultimate links post of the year, and so it’s almost, but not quite, time to look back in wonderment on the 8,784 hours that have passed us by.
On Kazuo Umezz, A Child Who Is Not Dead
Friends of TCJ share memories of the work of the late Kazuo Umezz.
