Warren Bernard cites his sources for his Comics Journal #302 article, “Bloody Massacre: How Fredric Wertham Public Backlash and the 1954 Senate Delinquency Hearings Threw Comics on the Bonfire” and provides documents from the recently opened Frederic Wertham papers that shed new light on the Senate comic book Hearings of 1954.
Since the Invasion of these literaries, I have been observing a tendency to ask the question: if this weren’t a comic would it stand up? Would the story be any good if it were prose and in competition with the rest of the world’s prose? If we take away all these damn pictures, would the stuff that is left be worth a hoot?
France! Teach me to kiss, France!
These notes reference Gavin Callaghan’s “Authors Meet Images: Cartoonists Before Comics” essay published in The Comics Journal #302.
My ostensible reason for teaching serialization in the first place was that I felt an obligation to discuss the history of the floppy, but my students don’t care at all about that history.
In this excerpt from the Jacques Tardi interview in The Comics Journal #302, Tardi talks about his current graphic novel project, which tells the story of his father’s experiences as a French soldier in WWII.
A decades-long friendship between two artists.
It’s that time again: time for me to read a bunch of webcomics at random and tell you what I think of them.
A deep dive into digital manga pours out into an alternative newspaper reunion, and other things adrift.
The Pittsburgh-based cartoonist on Wizzywig, working with Harvey Pekar, and the Hip Hop Family Tree.
Alan Shenker AKA Yossarian, March 3, 1945-January 14, 2013.
Image Comics: The Movie
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where one of the bad guys tries to press Indy’s face against a conveyor belt that would pretty much sand off his skin. Your first glimpse of a Heather Benjamin drawing feels something like that.
Fantagraphics publisher Gary Groth on what EC accomplished and what it didn’t.
Pucker up for DIRTY COMICS in this week’s erotic voyage toward… categorization!
The John Byrne comic that nearly broke this column’s back.
A multi-generational strip recalled.
Richard Gehr talks to Jack Ziegler, whose innovative cartoons, often on the topics of food, cowboys and classical literature, have populated The New Yorker for thirty years.
PARENTS: Is *this* the kind of girl your son is dating? A shocking cautionary tale inside!
In the span of about five years, Chuck Forsman has become not just a promising young cartoonist but also an intriguing mover and shaker in the world of micropublishing with Oily Comics.
The three weeks at ACA are over.
The comics of 2013 are off to an … excellent start.
Road trip to Gainesville.
