Consider the Source of the Crisis in the Newspaper Comics Strip Kingdom
A Perverse and Cynical Contrary View Full of Hope.
Columns
Jen Lee: Day Five
Don’t want to reverse it.
Jen Lee: Day Four
I want to stop missing things.
Jen Lee: Day Three
Mapping out my head.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/16/16 – L’Amour braque)
Men thinking about women, in different times and places…
Jen Lee: Day Two
Still thinking about the sky.
Connecticut Cartoonists #3: Quality Folks
Jack and Gill.
Jen Lee: Day One
Bothered by how the sun hits the rooms in a new house.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/9/16 – Lightning Returns)
Gotta go fast…
Connecticut Cartoonists #2: This Is A Job For Supermen
The fate of the Man of Steel’s artisans.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/2/16 – Magnification)
A frightful force of expensive reprint items… but there’s always other ways to spend your money.
Pro-Nuclear Manga: The Seventies and Eighties
Black and white, pens-for-hire nuclear propaganda manga.
The Economics of Comics: How Money Influenced the Art
It is ironic that the economics of the industry have for so much of its history worked against the art.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/24/16 – Ahead of My Time)
Capsule reviews! Er, two of ’em, not the rest! One is mostly a link! Wow! Gosh!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/17/16 – The Real Date Today)
“Oh thank god I got this done on time, my readers almost missed out on Franken Fran!”
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/10/16 – Fate Laughs At My Efforts to Save Money)
“Ha, they’ll think I’m talking about comics, but I’m actually talking about my car!”
The Nobel Prize for Cuckoldry
Bill Griffith’s Invisible Ink is a memoir as fascinating in its way as Fun Home. Where Alison Bechdel gave us a look inside of a closeted life when closets were in flower, Griffith takes us across the border into the times before the times changed.
Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, and the Body of the Other
Craig Fischer on Moore’s mind-bending masterpiece.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/3/16 – I don’t care what you say, this French trophy I got for best column ever is real as hell.)
I always knew I was special. But it wasn’t until I bought comics that everyone else did too.
The Minicomix Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox – Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1970) The humble, photocopied minicomic sprang into being in the early 1970s and has become a prime engine of creativity in a vast subculture that today includes thousands of comics creators. This edition… Read more »
Connecticut Cartoonists #1 The Alex Raymond Circle
The hard drinking romance-style crew.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/27/16 – Imagine a Blank Page)
A single word balloon rises.
The White Boy Trilogy and Garrett Price, Part 1
Garrett Price’s White Boy, a vividly original comic strip set in the American West, appeared on the scene in 1933, shapeshifted three times in three years, and then faded into obscurity faster than a wind-blown smoke signal. Since then, a few slim sheaves of pages have been reprinted in book collections and magazines. These tantalizing excerpts have served to… Read more »
