Jonathan Fetter-Vorm speaks with Alex Dueben about the difficulty of making graphic novel out of a conflict-free story where every reader knows the ending: Moonbound, the story of Apollo 11.
The last time a Russian Minister tried to mess around with America’s favorite fictional characters, Jack Bauer got super frustrated. I’m just saying! Ryan Flanders has all the details, and many more, in his weekly news round-up!
In this obituary, Kent Worcester discusses Donald Rooum, who is best known for his comic strip “Wildcat,” as well as his numerous contributions to anarchist comics anthologies and publications.
Blue Delliquanti and Dylan Edwards are both cartoonists working in the field of queer and trans spec fic for kids and teens. In this interview, they talk with Melanie Gillman about the power of LGBTQ spec fic as a genre to challenge existing infrastructures, provide escapes, and create allegorical mirrors for young queer and trans readers.
In this interview from TCJ #247, political cartoonist Donal Rooum talks to Ken Worcester about anarchy, gag cartooning, and typography.
Tim Hayes takes a measured look at the British comics published under the IPC Youth Group umbrella, now available again thanks to Rebellion and their deep, Dredd-full pockets.
Cynthia Rose takes a long look at Blake & Mortimer, the wildly successful series of comics by Edgar P. Jacobs, its creator’s personal history…and his somewhat tortured relationship with Hergé.
Simone Castaldi takes an extensive look back at the career of artist Massimo Mattioli, who spent much of his life innovating Italian comics.
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is recently back in industry news, regarding his partial ownership of the rights to Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood. In this article from TCJ #265 (January-February 2005), Michael Dean traces Rosenberg’s trajectory through comics industry and Hollywood up to that point.
This week, Ryan finally acknowledges Newsarama and Spawn, thus completing what is known as Satan’s “Final Phase”. Kevin Sorbo, save us all!
Sometimes you just gotta ignore the rules, or else you won’t be able to put your hands on a classic. Kurt Ankeny explains, in today’s Diary!
Marc Sobel’s travels took him down South, to the legendary Book Nook, where TCJ’s editor once bought a bootleg version of “Cop Killer”, as sung by Soundgarden. Today, Marc is just talking comics.
Today, Kurt Ankeny’s Diary turns the volume way down so that color and patience can tell the story pretty much on their own.
Kurt Ankeny may think he’s got all the answers, but when it comes to swimming, “No” is a complete sentence. Diary: on the scene!
Cynthia Rose won’t loan you the plane fare for a French trip, but she will guide you through On the Road to Tōkaidō (Sur la route du Tōkaidō), currently running at the Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet in Paris!
Into every life, a little rain must fall. And sometimes the rain comes with lightning, and lightning doesn’t mess around or care at all about history. Kurt Ankeny has the receipts!
Kurt Ankeny is here, and his Cartoonist Diary came with him. In today’s colorful installment, he maintains good fatherly tradition: disappointing the youth of today.
In Kate Lacour’s final Diary entry, we see her dealing honestly with the difficulties of a carnivorous dinosaur attack. For serious!
Oliver Ristau visits Raum 404 one more time to check out some boundary pushing comics work by Keren Katz & Rotem of Qiryat Gat.
Beep beep! That’s the sound of a truck backing up, as Ryan Flanders does some reorganization to his look at this week’s comics noise and news! Beep beep, I say!
Had a day packed full with parental obligations? Why not close it out Lacour style, with a fat slice of “Knifepoint Horror”?
Kate Lacour’s reaction to seeing a dead bird is one of many rock solid reminders of why Kate Lacour has been, and always will be, way cooler than me.
Check out an 11 page excerpt from Keiler Roberts Rat Time, coming this fall from Koyama Press!
In today’s Diary, Kate gets a bit of a scolding from a friend who would prefer she not die at the hands of brain-eating amoeba.
