Ants Marching – This Week’s Links
The news, well, it just absolutely will not stop, spewing forth from the pipes of the internet like so much sewage water.
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The Diamond death throes continue, but comics surge ahead
The Diamond bankruptcy case has moved to Chapter 7, full liquidation, but that doesn’t seem to be simplifying things much.
Lucca Comics and Games 2025: A merry, light-hearted show, but not devoid of complainers
No sore-loser report this year.
From WildStorm to Act 4: An interview with ‘Artist Edition’ mastermind Scott Dunbier
Zach Rabiroff talks with the former IDW editor about his new publishing venture and exactly what it takes to put together one of those massive Artist’s Editions.
Spring Will Be A Harvest Time — This Week’s Links
A quiet end to February, as the spring and summer convention seasons wait in the wings for the annual deluge of publication announcements and associated folderol.
The Empty Table Revolution: How Angoulême’s Cancellation Proved the Girlcott’s Power
Passion doesn’t pay rent, cultural work deserves economic dignity: Ilan Manouch on the cancellation of the 2026 Angoulême Festival.
Traced identities: Hisashi Eguchi and the crisis of the Tokyo Pop image
In the autumn of 2025, Japanese illustrator and manga artist Hisashi Eguchi was accused of tracing a photograph of a woman without her consent for a public promotional image.
Diane DiMassa: Still Homicidal After All These Years
Diane DiMassa interviewed by Ana Woulfe for the Philly Comix Expo 2025.
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
For a particular generation of comic readers (albeit, perhaps, a diminishing one), Mike Diana’s name will be familiar, though not for enviable reasons.
Deadpool/Batman and Batman/Deadpool: The world’s last superhero comics
This is strange territory, but its lights can illuminate our own lands — the comics, our last, best lenses on the genre.
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 »
