Thank You For The Music – This Week’s Links
Clark Burscough narrows down all of this AND last week’s links for you degenerates.
Clark Burscough narrows down all of this AND last week’s links for you degenerates.
From funny animals to furries: Brandy Lewis breaks down the history of our little friends.
Soft-spoken cartoonist historian Tim Jackson, who died on Nov. 3, was best known for his 2017 Eisner-nominated book Pioneering Cartoonists of Color, but he was a pioneering cartoonist of color.
Dean Simons provides a remembrance of the co-creator of the Valerian and Laureline series, as well as many other significant works.
French cartoonist Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin, author of La Chasse a l’Ourse, shared the experience of interning for the 2024 Short Run Comix Festival.
The Short Run Comix Festival manages to be the most significant seven hours of Seattle’s yearly comics calendar.
Bob Levin surveys two fantastical journeys in comics but only finds one of them worth taking.
Boom talks with Irene Velentzas about how her own changing vision inspired the themes in her book The Jellyfish.
Valerio Stivè sat down with the authors of the new comic strip biography, Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz.
Brian Nicholson talks to the ATP cartoonist about teaching art, the importance of a reliable comics community, and what makes for a good fight scene.
This week’s links are brought to you by some better living through chemistry, as cold and flu season hits olde London towne.
The 2024 Eisner Awards Hall of Fame was held on the morning of July 26 during the San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con). Each year the Eisner Awards judges select 19 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees included 12 deceased comics pioneers – Creig Flessel,… Read more »
It’s November and you know what that means: another month to kiss the ground with gratitude that RJ Casey has read enough zines for another Arrivals and Departures column.
A quiet take on Geof Darrow’s Shaolin Cowboy with Dark Horse’s Silent But Deadly edition of Cruel to Be Kin- while words are lost, Mark Peters tells us what we have to gain as readers.
If, somehow, inexplicably, you’ve still not had more than your fill of news in this quadrennial newsiest of weeks, then allow me to present a brief remise en bouche of comics-focused happenings.
To begin it must be said, at the risk of stating the obvious, I remain perpetually distracted by the depiction of female beauty in comic books. To which certainly, you nod your head in weary resignation. We noticed. Honesty brings you to strange places. That’s the theme of the book we’re looking at today,… Read more »
Ian Thomas sat down with the editors of the latest issue – Susan Simensky Bietila, Nicole Schulman, Seth Tobocman, and Jordan Worley – to talk about the latest issue of the anthology, World War 3 Now, as well as a certain election.
And so, we arrive at the final This Week’s Links before the upcoming presidential election, with a selection of reading/viewing/listening, below, to distract from the feverish pitch of the political dog and pony show’s grandest spectacle.
A 1980 Shimizu Isao essay on the who’s who of literati and painters Depicted in Great People Manga, translated by Jon Holt and Ayumi Naraoka.
Final Cut is Burns’ latest attempt to answer the question that all artists must, from time to time, grapple with: Who am I, in relation to my art, and in relation to the art of others?
In which the new illuminated manuscript on magic practice by Alan Moore & Steve Moore is considered, on top of the state of things.
Cartoonist, Myron Moose creator and animation artist Robert Michael “Bob” Foster passed away in hospice care on Sept. 30, 2024.
Zach Rabiroff talked with Desert Island owner Gabe Fowler in the wake of the store being kicked out of its home and a successful GoFundMe campaign to find a new location.
A (slightly) pre-emptively spooOOooky™ edition of this week’s links await you.