Blood banks and comics? The topic’s not as arbitrary as you might think. It’s quite a natural pairing, actually, both in Japan and in the United States, though for utterly different reasons.
THE OLDEST IN AUTHENTIC MANGA, RIGHT HERE, ALL WEEK.
A subterranean journey through Free Comic Book Day.
Dustin Harbin joins me for a conversation about Batman Year One, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Full disclosure, I went into this pick totally wanting to hate on it and hate on Frank Miller, but I have to stay honest (that’s the TCJ Talkies Code) and admit this book is still a solidly satisfying… Read more »
Armstrong (1917-2007) was a man-sized pixie with a gray beard and a haystack hair-do and dark Mephistophlean eyebrows, an archetypically elfin presence who saw the humor in humanity’s parade and delighted in it.
Just a simple, old-fashioned column this week. No fuss.
Show and tell.
The creator of Nurse Nurse talks about a pivotal book in the manga master’s oeuvre.
The life of a working man, EXPOSED.
A survey of the new Polish/English imprint’s early and recent output, which ranges from all-ages material to autobio to stuff that’s far stranger.
A look at sentimentality in an Ivan Brunetti image and time in a Charles Schulz strip.
Comparisons, a review, blurbs, cons, prices, etc.
Dig dig dig.
I’m not a cat person, sorry. Do you like comics?
The Study Group publisher and Secret Voice cartoonist talks about Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s superhero dystopia. Plus: Isaac Cates.
No fooling around here – all these comics are going to be great, unless they screw up.
Roy Doty was a cartoonist, artist and illustrator, creating humorous pictures in books and magazines, packaging, advertising, comic strips and television.
The Society for Nutrition, Education, and Health Action, based primarily in Dharavi, Mumbai, has recently initiated interesting community art and comics projects.
A few selections from the ’70s comics magazine Ah! Nana top this latest trawl through production’s wake.
Salt of the earth, this week.
Comics as Music
A very small tribute, and some recent picks.
Winnie the WAC was to the Women’s Army Corps in World War II what Dave Breger’s Private Breger and George Baker’s Sad Sack and Bill Mauldin’s Willie and Joe were to the entire U.S. military—a moral booster nonpareil.
Arithmetic on the passing of an era.
