Article Archive
“I’m Trying To Capture That Certain Energy”: Eddie Raymond, on Working with Strangers
Sitting down with the founder of Strangers, one of a prominent new wave of zine editors with a hand in small-press comics publishing and distribution.
Five Years Left To Cry In – This Week’s Links
Do you know how dangerous it can be to randomly go roaming the internet for comics news, reviews and points of views? Buddy: take a look at that pipeline situation. It’s rough out there! Why not place your faith in the good orderly direction of Clark Burscough’s hands, and allow him to send you towards the artform’s latest twists and turns? It’s the only sensible choice!
Bob Montana’s Archie Newspaper Comic Strip…And Who, Actually, Invented Archie
Is there a secret history to the beginnings of Archie and his fellow Riverdalians? Bob’s been doing some reading and researching, and is ready to deliver his hot take, that take being: “Maybe!”
High Gear: An Appreciation of Maurice Tillieux
Delve deeper into classic European comics with this career overview of Maurice Tillieux, creator of Gil Jourdan and other smooth-riding BD classics.
WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH THE CBLDF?
Jeff Trexler, interim executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, pitched to us an essay on strategies for rebuilding an ethical environment at the beleaguered organization. We agreed, so long as its points could be discussed in a follow-up interview. Here is that essay, and that interview.
John Paul Leon: 1972-2021
Ian MacEwan presents this obituary and tribute to John Paul Leon, an artist’s artist, admired for his work on series like Earth X and The Winter Men, who died this past weekend at the age of 49.
Like To A Diver In The Pearly Seas – This Week’s Links
You have to find a reason when your feet hit the floor, and it would probably be a better one if you didn’t come from the web. But that’s where you are, and you’re about to meet a friend: Clark, who has all the comics news, reviews and points of view from the past week that you could need. Your petty resentments can come with you. They always have before!
SHOWCASE: Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie
And now for something very special – a collection of recent Trots and Bonnie illustrations from creator Shary Flenniken!
Adventurous Girls: Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie
To celebrate the new edition of her influential, hilarious and still-vital Trots And Bonnie, Shary Flenniken spoke with James Romberger about the trip it took to get here, all the Air Pirates and Lampoons along the way, and what is occupying her time these days.
Two Girls & A Dog Walk Into America
Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie strip is available once more, and Bob is here to talk about why that’s such a big deal, and what today’s readers should be prepared before their first meeting with the girls.
You Got Time To Duck? – This Week’s Links
Every week, the comics news attempts to defeat Clark Burscough. “There’s no way he can blurb us all”, they say. And yet, every week their reviews, interviews and points-of-views are sliced, diced, codified and linked to in one simple column, where they can be archived unread for future generations to ignore. Wait: that’s not what is supposed to happen! Get to clicking, you children of fortune!
I Like Crap
Disposable lives amidst a disposable culture in a disposable comic – Austin Price tackles the world of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man, a boys’ manga not unlike many other boys’ manga, and many other disposable things. Yet there is something about the buzz of the motor on this thing…
Excerpt: Tummy Bugs
Thanks to Breakdown Press, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Tummy Bugs, by Leomi Sadler.
“No More Hand-Wringing; We Lopped Off Their Hands”
Tegan O’Neil gets in the ring with Michael Deforge’s latest collection of crowd-pleasing, critically-accliaiming comics Heaven no Hell. Are all these hosannahs deserved?
“Don’t Overthink It!”: Walter Scott & Michael DeForge, Chatting Online
The two young Canadian comics veterans, in conversation. Topics include the performance of being alive while online, the usefulness of multiple creative outlets, and expectation management.
I Don’t Recall Saying “Good Luck” – This Week’s Links
“The world’s too big”, they say: well, make it smaller! Small enough to fit into one single column, containing links to all the comics news, reviews and points of view that were unleashed this past week. We could ask Clark Burscough to do it. What’s this? He already has! Get yourself caught up right now!
Mort Weisinger’s Puzzle Comics
In this installment of the 10 Cent Museum, Austin English looks back at some of the most popular comics for children ever published: the Superman stories associated with Mort Weisinger!
Excerpt: Goiter #6
Kilgore and Josh Pettinger provide an early look at the centerpiece story in Goiter #6, a comic they plan to release later this summer.
Can’t Stop / Won’t Stop – Geof Darrow and The Shaolin Cowboy
Diving deep into the swirling blood and sweat of Geof Darrow’s 21st Century action comic, which satirizes the present while drawing from the past.
“I’ve Been Jokerfied In The Same Way That A Lot Of People Have”: An Interview with Max Huffman
Gearing up for the Adhouse release of his Cover Not Final, cartoonist Max Huffman catches up with Andrew Neal about growing up and past your influences, figuring out how to manage jokes in a pandemic scarred artform, and how to use Chick tracts AND Michael Mann as inspiration devices.
She Says There’s Ants In The Carpet – This Week’s Links
It’s learning time: the time when you rely on the authority of the text against screen to teach you the news, reviews and points of view surrounding the subject of “comics”. But wouldn’t it be easier if all those things were rounded up in one place? Friend, that time is now.
Drawing On Disaster: Children, Art and Trauma 1914-2020
Cynthia reports back on Déflagrations (Detonations), at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille: 160 drawings by children from around the world, created between 1914 and 2020, expressing their experience of trauma, war and horror.
