No Other Person Doing
This time around, Goshkin is taking into a look at a recent Institute 193 publication called Cosmic Giggles, featuring work by Charles Williams.
Features
Rip It Up And Start Again – This Week’s Links
Beginnings. Endings. Awards. Lists. Talking. Comics. Words. Periods After Words. Underlined words and phrases. The comics news has arrived! Clark is ready to send you out, shooting through the tubes, so that you may rest yourself upon it!
Italian Gallery Offers Digital Access To Caniff Exhibition
A new exhibition of Milton Caniff’s work is underway at the Palazzo Arti Fumetto Friuli (PAFF!) in Pordenone, Italy–but this is one you won’t need to travel to see!
What Virginia Woolf Can Teach Us About Making Comics
We look back a century to see how a brilliant writer managed her existence–creative and mortal–and what that might tell us for the cartoonists of today.
“To Me That’s Just Fetishization”: An Interview With JB Roe
Cartoonist and podcaster JB Roe catches us up on how Deathlok and the TMNT got him started with comics, how risographs and the small press have kept him going, and why he’s not concerned about blowback for expressing his opinions on Gutter Boys.
Stop Kiddin’ Middlemen Need Ritalin – This Week’s Links
It’s a New Year, and that means it’s time for a New Roundup of all the New News: buddy, some of it is good. You just have to focus on the comics end of the stick!
“We Were Never Comforting. And We’re Not Comforting Now”: The Denys Cowan Interview
The influential creator talks about how he got his start in comics, how a conversation with Jim Steranko helped cement his legacy, his time in animation, the return of Milestone, and how far comics has to go (and what it has to do) if it really wants to change its racist legacy.
Unknown Soldier – Known Unknowns
Tom looks back at the 1997 Unknown Soldier, when Garth Ennis and Killian Plunkett warned us of the world that was coming.
“Everyone Knows When They’re Trying To Justify A Moment They Don’t Really Stand Behind”: An Interview with Austin English
Austin English looks forward to the future via his publishing and distro outfit, Domino Books, the conclusion of years of work on his next comic, and talks about why its time for readers to expand their definition of comics.
Roz Chast & Gary Groth: An Excerpt from Comics Journal #306
In these two conversations excerpted from Groth’s career spanning interview with Roz Chast, they discuss her experience at The New Yorker, then and now, and her feelings about the importance and limitations of draughtsmanship.
The Mystery Of The Caniff Nude!
Michael’s back, and he’s going full Columbo this time around, to solve the Case of the Naked Caniff!
“An Artform That Is Rugged And Can Take A Beating”: A Conversation with Patrick Dean
Artist, activist and ALS warrior Patrick Dean speaks with Eleanor Davis about what they learned from Donald Westlake, how he balanced the bad with the funny in his comic Eddie’s Week, and how he’s making work (including drawing with his eyes) despite his ALS.
You’re What The French Call, ‘Les Incompétents’ – This Week’s Links
It’s Clark’s last round-up of links for 2020: let’s close out this year by catching up on all the comics news, comics reviews and comics–stuff, you know, things that don’t fit in the first two categories. “Comic book stuff”. Click away!
Unbeatable Translations: How The World Is Being Introduced To More Eurocomics Than Ever Before
Digital only translations of European comics have exploded in availability in recent years. Will print editions be close behind? Will an audience of readers come as well? Bart is here with an update on a scene in search of some scenesters!
Comix Curation In The Age Of COVID: An Interview With James Danky
Frank Young and James Danky talk about “Wisconsin Funnies”, Danky’s past adventures in comics curation and the challenges of mounting a historical exhibit during a pandemic.
Richard Corben: 1940-2020
In this obituary, David A. Roach eulogizes Richard Corben, best known for his Bat Out of Hell album cover and his Den comic for Heavy Metal magazine. Corben was also a pioneering filmmaker, an innovator in the use of color, and one of the first American artists to establish himself in European comics.
Long Time Coming: When Dylan Williams Interviewed Marvin Stein
Thanks to Steven Brower, The Comics Journal is pleased to share this never before published interview from 2000 between cartoonist & publisher Dylan Williams and Golden Age titan, Marvin Stein.
…And To All A Dark Knight! – This Week’s Links
This week may be missing bonehead corporate moves, but there’s plenty of good comics news to assuage the loss: get you some links, so you’ll be all caught up. Clark has you covered!
“At A Grassroots Level Comics Creators Are On Their Own”: A Conversation On Compensation With Hannah Berry & Katriona Chapman
UK Comics Laureate Hannah Berry and cartoonist Katriona Chapman talk about the financial state of making comics, the UK Comics Creators Research Report, the lack of diversity in the top earning categories and the need for expanding the comics audience beyond its current niche.
Ralph Reese: Knight Errant
James Romberger catches up with Ralph Reese about what he’s been drawing lately.
A Great Work Of Imagination: But All The Facts Are There, Too
Bob is here, with a look at Derf Backderf’s Kent State comic from earlier this year for the latest installment of Hare Tonic!
Welcome To The Party, Pal – This Week’s Links
December has begun, and the comics news shows no sign of slowing down: you’ll have to board this train while it remains in motion. Allow Clark to provide the footholds, via the power of links!
Man Out of Time
Tom Shapira looks at the storied history of Dan Dare, and all the random hands that have shaped and reshaped the character for the last 70 years of his existence.
