The news is coming. The reviews are here. The interviews? The points-of-views? It’s all too much for one brain…but if you had a guide, someone who could help you find your way through it all? Clark. Clark would know!
Damn, a doggoned disquisition on the 20th century master, in honor of a new collection of ’40s and ’50s filler frolics.
Historian Brian Puaca compares two chokepoints in comics history: the formation of the self-regulatory Comics Code Authority in the 1950s, and the economic threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
From here, you can see the world! From here, you can click any link! Any point on the horizon! Yes! Yes!
Bob takes a look at Sam C. Rawls (Scrawls), whose name never provided him a choice about what kind of profession he was best suited for, his work throughout the 80s and 90s both as a strip & editorial cartoonist, and his more recent environmental activism.
Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience speaks to Wendy and Richard Pini of ElfQuest fame in a long, free-wheeling interview about this pioneering work.
The artist and poet Sommer Browning presents an idle (if not an idyll) with the work of Olivier Schrauwen.
Cartoonist and carpenter Shing Yin Khor catches Tiffany Babb up about the inspiration and work methods behind her new graphic novel, The Legend of Auntie Po. Pie and puppetry are also discussed!
Sail with me, Traveller, to a new world…
A philosophical reflection on the life’s work of Kentaro Miura, creator of the influential manga series Berserk, who died this past May at the age of 54.
A portrait of a cartoonist, choosing to make a living shifting and sifting the detritus of the medium itself while documenting the experience along the way. Matt Petras has the story, Nate McDonough has the first aid supplies.
Hard-traveling heroes Joe Ollmann and Brecht Evens get the band back together to discuss Brecht’s latest phantasmagoric graphic novel, The City of Belgium. In the process, they cover what it takes to get a bad boy reputation, the merits of coincidence in narrative, and the values of different categories of drugs.
A week has concluded, with a weekend to come. Why not punctuate the former by educating yourself during the latter? Clark’s links to the past week’s comics news, reviews, interviews and points-of-views could serve as your curriculum. It’s a classic “banana in the tailpipe!”
Author and scholar Natsume Fusanosuke considers one of the great crossover mangaka from a Japanese and European perspective in this 2018 essay translated from the Japanese by Jon Holt & Teppei Fukuda.
Short Run Comix & Arts Festival Co-Founder and Executive Director Kelly Froh discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the festival and how it has changed the convention landscape.
To look at the state of Barry Windsor-Smith’s 30-plus year project Monsters, Tegan makes the case you need to get started in the 1500s, and bring those engravings to the present day: that is, if you want to take Windsor-Smith’s linework as seriously as he does.
Editors and scholars Brannon Costello & Brian Cremins talk to TCJ about their recently published collection of essays, which takes a look at the comics of 1980–but not the same handful that you’d expect them too.
How does one win the game of life, the game of success? Perhaps the answers are in here…
Artist and educator Anya Davidson visits a new exhibition of Chicago cartoonists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, spanning over half a century of history. Features dozens of pictures, an interview with co-curator Dan Nadel, and a visit to an alternative exhibition at the DIY space Gridsport.
A personal reflection on the acclaimed superhero comic book writer and what he has to say, even when he’s not saying it.
Sitting down again with the acclaimed and prolific British cartoonist, who’s just seen the release of an omnibus collection for his Grandville series, and will soon be returning to the world of his pioneering graphic novel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright.
As night falls on another week, we offer you sips of contemplation to ease your journey… into mystery?!
Kim Jooha takes a look at collage/appropriation and the various ways in which those techniques have been used in fine art and comics.
Tom digs into the early days of the DC gunfighter, and considers how mounting elements of sophistication only troubled the Weird Western star.
