Jeff Trexler, interim executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, pitched to us an essay on strategies for rebuilding an ethical environment at the beleaguered organization. We agreed, so long as its points could be discussed in a follow-up interview. Here is that essay, and that interview.
Ian MacEwan presents this obituary and tribute to John Paul Leon, an artist’s artist, admired for his work on series like Earth X and The Winter Men, who died this past weekend at the age of 49.
You have to find a reason when your feet hit the floor, and it would probably be a better one if you didn’t come from the web. But that’s where you are, and you’re about to meet a friend: Clark, who has all the comics news, reviews and points of view from the past week that you could need. Your petty resentments can come with you. They always have before!
And now for something very special – a collection of recent Trots and Bonnie illustrations from creator Shary Flenniken!
To celebrate the new edition of her influential, hilarious and still-vital Trots And Bonnie, Shary Flenniken spoke with James Romberger about the trip it took to get here, all the Air Pirates and Lampoons along the way, and what is occupying her time these days.
Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie strip is available once more, and Bob is here to talk about why that’s such a big deal, and what today’s readers should be prepared before their first meeting with the girls.
Every week, the comics news attempts to defeat Clark Burscough. “There’s no way he can blurb us all”, they say. And yet, every week their reviews, interviews and points-of-views are sliced, diced, codified and linked to in one simple column, where they can be archived unread for future generations to ignore. Wait: that’s not what is supposed to happen! Get to clicking, you children of fortune!
Disposable lives amidst a disposable culture in a disposable comic – Austin Price tackles the world of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man, a boys’ manga not unlike many other boys’ manga, and many other disposable things. Yet there is something about the buzz of the motor on this thing…
Thanks to Breakdown Press, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Tummy Bugs, by Leomi Sadler.
Tegan O’Neil gets in the ring with Michael Deforge’s latest collection of crowd-pleasing, critically-accliaiming comics Heaven no Hell. Are all these hosannahs deserved?
The two young Canadian comics veterans, in conversation. Topics include the performance of being alive while online, the usefulness of multiple creative outlets, and expectation management.
“The world’s too big”, they say: well, make it smaller! Small enough to fit into one single column, containing links to all the comics news, reviews and points of view that were unleashed this past week. We could ask Clark Burscough to do it. What’s this? He already has! Get yourself caught up right now!
In this installment of the 10 Cent Museum, Austin English looks back at some of the most popular comics for children ever published: the Superman stories associated with Mort Weisinger!
Kilgore and Josh Pettinger provide an early look at the centerpiece story in Goiter #6, a comic they plan to release later this summer.
Diving deep into the swirling blood and sweat of Geof Darrow’s 21st Century action comic, which satirizes the present while drawing from the past.
Gearing up for the Adhouse release of his Cover Not Final, cartoonist Max Huffman catches up with Andrew Neal about growing up and past your influences, figuring out how to manage jokes in a pandemic scarred artform, and how to use Chick tracts AND Michael Mann as inspiration devices.
It’s learning time: the time when you rely on the authority of the text against screen to teach you the news, reviews and points of view surrounding the subject of “comics”. But wouldn’t it be easier if all those things were rounded up in one place? Friend, that time is now.
Cynthia reports back on Déflagrations (Detonations), at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille: 160 drawings by children from around the world, created between 1914 and 2020, expressing their experience of trauma, war and horror.
Thanks to Breakdown Press, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Free Fall, by Alexis Beauclair.
A profile of Ben Sears, author of the new kid superhero graphic novel Young Shadow – an all-ages comic with a healthy distrust of authority.
Catching up with a veteran of indie and mainstream comics alike – and hashing out the current state of both, as the pandemic lingers and business models shudder.
It’s time to curl up with the spiciest collection of links this side of a pepper factory explosion where you have to say goodbye to your entire family: it’s comics linking time, with Clark as captain, and the last week of the internet’s comics news, reviews and interviews as your ocean. Get yourself to the oars, which are the links you must click!
“To foster acceptance of any aspect of the human condition, to nurture enjoyment of it, and to vanquish meaningless guilt seem to me to be acts of high morality: such acts elevate the human spirit. If this be pornography, we need more of it.”
Helen takes a fresh look at Steve Ditko’s creativity under the content restrictions of the 1950s: a force that burned brighter than the comics code, by embodying the code’s ideology with a perfection the censors couldn’t match.
