THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/20/15 – somebody save us please)
Wow! Another big week of great comics! Let’s dive right in!
Columns
Sam Henderson: Day One
In which the author begins a temporary job teaching cartooning for the week
Blood Plants: Mizuki Shigeru, Kitaro, and the Japanese Blood Industry
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.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/13/15 – A Blaze of Retrospect)
THE OLDEST IN AUTHENTIC MANGA, RIGHT HERE, ALL WEEK.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/6/15 – Underground Comics)
A subterranean journey through Free Comic Book Day.
Dustin Harbin on Batman Year One
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 »
Roger Armstrong: Conversing with One of Cartooning’s Better Sprites
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.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/29/15 – Break Your Back with Books)
Just a simple, old-fashioned column this week. No fuss.
Spring Cleaning
Show and tell.
Katie Skelly on The Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka
The creator of Nurse Nurse talks about a pivotal book in the manga master’s oeuvre.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/22/15 – Sex Controls the World and I Control Sex)
The life of a working man, EXPOSED.
Reading Centrala
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.
Cartoon Solitude
A look at sentimentality in an Ivan Brunetti image and time in a Charles Schulz strip.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/15/15 – Project-o-rama!)
Comparisons, a review, blurbs, cons, prices, etc.
Dollar Sale Diary
Dig dig dig.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/8/15 – Sit, Ubu, sit!)
I’m not a cat person, sorry. Do you like comics?
Zack Soto on Kingdom Come
The Study Group publisher and Secret Voice cartoonist talks about Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s superhero dystopia. Plus: Isaac Cates.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/1/15 – Your Parents Think You’re Boring)
No fooling around here – all these comics are going to be great, unless they screw up.
The Passing of a Giant: Roy Doty, 1922-2015
Roy Doty was a cartoonist, artist and illustrator, creating humorous pictures in books and magazines, packaging, advertising, comic strips and television.
Dharavi Comics Epidemic: An Interview with Chaitanya Modak
The Society for Nutrition, Education, and Health Action, based primarily in Dharavi, Mumbai, has recently initiated interesting community art and comics projects.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/25/15 – There’s Always More to Forget)
A few selections from the ’70s comics magazine Ah! Nana top this latest trawl through production’s wake.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/18/15 – Farts, Sex & Culture)
Salt of the earth, this week.
Space is the Place
Comics as Music
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/11/15 – Just this today.)
A very small tribute, and some recent picks.
