Thank You For The Music – This Week’s Links
Clark Burscough narrows down all of this AND last week’s links for you degenerates.
Features
Funny-Animal Fictions: Comics Fandom and the Late Introduction of Furry
From funny animals to furries: Brandy Lewis breaks down the history of our little friends.
Remembering cartoonist and historian Tim Jackson, 1958-2024
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.
Pierre Christin, 1938-2024
Dean Simons provides a remembrance of the co-creator of the Valerian and Laureline series, as well as many other significant works.
A Short Run intern’s diary: Finding festivity, union and friendship
French cartoonist Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin, author of La Chasse a l’Ourse, shared the experience of interning for the 2024 Short Run Comix Festival.
A Short Run Comix Festival report for 2024: One last hurrah at an old venue
The Short Run Comix Festival manages to be the most significant seven hours of Seattle’s yearly comics calendar.
On the Road with Moonray and meduSalem
Bob Levin surveys two fantastical journeys in comics but only finds one of them worth taking.
‘I just wanted to incorporate parts of my story that felt important’: Boum on vision loss in The Jellyfish
Boom talks with Irene Velentzas about how her own changing vision inspired the themes in her book The Jellyfish.
Charles Schulz’s Funny Things: An interview with Francesco Matteuzzi and Luca Debus
Valerio Stivè sat down with the authors of the new comic strip biography, Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz.
An interview with Michael Shea-Wright: ‘It’s about setting yourself on a path’
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.
Digital Bath – This Week’s Links
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 and Hall of Fame induction ceremony: photo galleries
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 »
Arrivals and Departures – November 2024
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.
The Silent But Deadly (and Otherworldly But Political) Art of Geof Darrow
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.
Here, There, and Everywhere – This Week’s Links
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.
Maria Llovet’s effortless line: glimpsing Crave and the Direct Market
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 »
‘We worry about everything’: A World War 3 Illustrated roundtable
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.
Gone Till November – This Week’s Links
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.
The Literati and Painters Depicted in Great People Manga
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.
Shall I project a world? The art, artists and artifice of Charles Burns
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?
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic: Incantations of the present day
In which the new illuminated manuscript on magic practice by Alan Moore & Steve Moore is considered, on top of the state of things.
Bob Foster: Nov. 16, 1943 – Sept. 30, 2024
Cartoonist, Myron Moose creator and animation artist Robert Michael “Bob” Foster passed away in hospice care on Sept. 30, 2024.
Gabe Fowler on Desert Island’s past, present and future
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.
There is Much to be Learned From Beasts – This Week’s Links
A (slightly) pre-emptively spooOOooky™ edition of this week’s links await you.
