To begin it must be said, at the risk of stating the obvious, I remain perpetually distracted by the depiction of female beauty in comic books. To which certainly, you nod your head in weary resignation. We noticed. Honesty brings you to strange places. That’s the theme of the book we’re looking at today,… Read more »
Kazuo Umezu has died at the age of 88, leaving behind an incredible legacy of horror manga for us all.
From TCJ #254 (July 2003): mangaka Kazuo Umezu (Umezz) talks to John A. Lent about The Floating Classroom, the heart’s sound and much more.
In this review from TCJ #233 (May 2001), Ng Suat Tong provides an overview The Floating/Drifting Classroom series and Umezu/Umezz’s sensibilities.
Ian Thomas sat down with the editors of the latest issue – Susan Simensky Bietila, Nicole Schulman, Seth Tobocman, and Jordan Worley – to talk about the latest issue of the anthology, World War 3 Now, as well as a certain election.
And so, we arrive at the final This Week’s Links before the upcoming presidential election, with a selection of reading/viewing/listening, below, to distract from the feverish pitch of the political dog and pony show’s grandest spectacle.
A 1980 Shimizu Isao essay on the who’s who of literati and painters Depicted in Great People Manga, translated by Jon Holt and Ayumi Naraoka.
Final Cut is Burns’ latest attempt to answer the question that all artists must, from time to time, grapple with: Who am I, in relation to my art, and in relation to the art of others?
In which the new illuminated manuscript on magic practice by Alan Moore & Steve Moore is considered, on top of the state of things.
Cartoonist, Myron Moose creator and animation artist Robert Michael “Bob” Foster passed away in hospice care on Sept. 30, 2024.
Zach Rabiroff talked with Desert Island owner Gabe Fowler in the wake of the store being kicked out of its home and a successful GoFundMe campaign to find a new location.
A (slightly) pre-emptively spooOOooky™ edition of this week’s links await you.
Larry Todd, a multifaceted and talented artist whose work included wondrous science fiction paintings and trippy underground comix, died on Sept. 28 following a long illness.
Bianca Xunise talks with Gina Gagliano about her new book Punk Rock Karaoke, Poly Styrene, punk and plagiarism.
Mireault was never the sort of artist likely to make the front of a Previews catalog, but it is wholly possible to imagine the sort of alternate world where he might have been, and where anyone with verve, talent and tenacity for the art form might do the same.
Pinoy Power!: A Celebration of Filipino Komiks from the Archipelago to the Bay exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco ran from Dec. 23, 2023 to Sept. 8, 2024.
A hectic week getting used to a new commute, which means much of this week’s links, below, were read while being ferried through London’s underground system.
Helen Chazan wanders through the pages of tender masculinity in Margot Ferrick’s book of illustrations, Half God/Half Dung.
RJ Casey read, loved, hated, and felt ambiguous about all of these zines this month- what have you don for me lately?
kuš! celebrates 50 issues by continuing steadily along their path of consistently high quality work, no birthday cake here, writes Hagai Palevsky.
The Bodie Troll cartoonist talks about his career, working on My Little Pony and Marvel Comics, and the aesthetics of cute.
Katie Lane and Angela Fanche, editors of the new Bernadette Magazine, in conversation about creating, editing, and friendship.
Fundings, awards, shake-ups and obituaries dot the headlines in this week’s roundup.
Chris Ware – La prospettiva della memoria (“Chris Ware – The perspective of memory”) opened on March 9 and closed on May 12, and Valerio Stive was lucky enough to visit it on its last day
