THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/21/11 – Can’t miss.)
Lot of Archie, lot of holidays, lot of endings, lot of Corben, kind of a lot of this one publisher too.
Features
Max Eastman, The Masses and the Invention of the Modern Gag Cartoon
A Lost Moment in the History of Cartooning
Correspondence Course
I’m starting a cartooning correspondence course.
L. Nichols!
The Louisiana-born, Brooklyn-based 28-year-old MIT grad produces work at a slightly dizzying rate, in such a wide range of styles, genres, and formats that picking a logical starting point is difficult.
Dylan Williams: Tributes
Words of appreciation from Tom Devlin, Aaron Cometbus, Trevor Alixopulos, Kevin Huizenga, Frank Santoro, Rina Ayuyang, Steven Brower, and Janelle Hessig.
A Dylan Williams Interview
A 2008 interview on punk, comics, and life with the cartoonist and publisher behind Sparkplug Comic Books.
Alex Robinson & Ten Years of Box Office Poison
A conversation with the cartoonist and podcaster Alex Robinson, recorded at SPX 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland.
How to Kickstarter
Maybe you’re aware that, for all the hubbub, less than half of Kickstarter projects get funded. How do you join the blessed 44%?
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/14/11 – Image & Language)
A brief selection from the comics life of George Kuchar, and a briefer tour of comic book terminology in the ’00s. Plus: several bears.
Joe Simon, Jack Kirby and Mort Meskin in Slumberland
Looking at the artistic psychodrama of the Simon and Kirby studio’s most unusual title: The Strange World of Your Dreams.
Frank’s Comics Corner
Back in the Saddle Again.
Part 10: Cartoon Tunes
In which our man goes digging, completes a comic book, and makes a radical new discovery.
The Mike Dawson Interview
The cartoonist talks about immigrating to America, art school politics, getting uptight about pot, going to sex resorts, camping with Boy Scouts, recording podcasts, and making comics for publishers both big and small.
Welcome to the Attic
This column will be my monthly report from the front—or, more accurately, from the rafters.
A Short Interview with Warren Craghead
Checking in with the artist and bookmaker.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/7/11 – Machine Power)
WOW: Zombies, 3D – it’s an all-disrepute special!
Labor Day War
Last time…with feeling
Part 9: Westward
This week: Drugs, relationships, and the San Francisco comics scene.
Comic Book Fever
A childhood seized by comics. From a forthcoming memoir by the author.
Manga 3.11: The Tsunami, the Japanese Publishing Industry, Suzuki Miso’s Reportage, and the One Piece Lifeboat
The effects of the tsunami on the business and content of Japanese comics publishing.
Tom Kaczynski
Publisher and cartoonist Tom Kaczynski is the guest in the TCJ Talkie Hutt this week.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (8/31/11 – Young Funnies Live Forever)
Secret links between Ben Katchor and The Crow, and other amusements while my editors are without power.
Introducing The Small Press Expo Collection
A brief interview with Warren Bernard on the new project with The Library of Congress, which will formally archive both the festival itself and many of the comics it annually features.
Forty and Counting: Bill Griffith’s Zippy
Zippy, the character, not the comic strip, passed the forty-year milestone late last year.
