THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (7/4/12 – Slightly Less Than Everything)
Happy birthday, United States! Please spend the comics money you’ll save on black powder novelties!
Columns
New Talent Showcase 8
Simon Hanselmann, Aidan Koch, and and Lala “Lauren Albert”
Here’s Hoping They Buried Your Dreams With Him
Two weeks’ worth of complaining about comics in one!
Fact and Fancy in Seth’s G.N.B. Double C
Everybody misunderstands Seth. Popular mythology has pegged the cartoonist as a nostalgist hankering over the lost past. In fact, Seth is a fantastist obsessed not with the world-that-was but rather the world-as-it-might-have-been.
Gold Out of Straw
Ed the Happy Clown returns, Shadow covers do battle, an ancient penny drops, Adrian Tomine meets Liz Prince in a paper bag, and Ray Bradbury checks out.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/27/12 – Everything, Everything, Everything)
The summer season explodes with an eruption of quality that challenges the very boundaries of this column and the sanctity of your purse!
Smilin’ Zack Mosley’s Wilder Blue Yonder
The bumpy beginnings and intriguing flight of Smilin’ Jack.
New Talent Showcase 7
Skuds McKinley, Heather Benjamin, and Aron Nels Steinke
Reading Periodicals
In an age when companies like Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly have almost completely curtailed their publishing of traditional comic books, it’s heartening to see so many smaller publishers embracing the concept.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/20/12 – Points, Lines, Mileposts)
Pure updates this time; lots of books coming out.
Sheldon Mayer
A lifetime of letters: This week the great cartoonist and editor reflects on his life.
Storytime
Once Upon a Time
It’s Never Too Late To Break Your Own Fingers, Chief
Abhay admires the latest Catwoman cover, and Tucker loses his mind again.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/13/12 – Cross-Platform Applications)
You think we’re playing games here?! That’s a weekend-only pursuit, champ.
Webcomics Capsule Reviews #1
In my last column, I announced, perhaps foolishly, my intention to write capsule reviews of any webcomics submitted to TCJ. So here we are: the inaugural Webcomics Capsule Reviews!
Hustler
Live Wire
If I Had A Nickel For Every Time You Threatened To Kill Yourself, I Could Afford To Hire A Clown To Kill Your Entire Family
Dumb things being said on Twitter!
Sara Varon: Day Five
Baking, weeding, drawing.
Sara Varon: Day Four
Caught in the rain.
Sugiura Shigeru’s Sense of Humor
Can you identify these early comic strip sources?
Sara Varon: Day Three
Running in the park.
Sara Varon: Day Two
Night school.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/6/12 – Thrilling Continuations of Past Classics!)
WOW: join in the celebration of a new, modern revamp of a grand old DC superhero favorite from some of Britain’s finest! We’re all getting laid in this one, gang!
Sara Varon: Day One
Sara Varon’s week of cartoon diaries begins with an interdepartmental cookie bake-off.
