Phil Jimenez talks with Alex Dueben about highlights from his twenty-eight year career in comics, the importance of mental health in the LGBTQ comics community, and why he’s returning to Wonder Woman.
Frank Santoro sits down with Caitlin McGurk to talk in detail about Pittsburgh, his most widely anticipated release from New York Review Comics.
Bill Schelly’s collaborators, compatriots and friends describe what it was like working with him, reading with him, and sharing his friendship.
Look at the screen. That is William Blake’s The Great Red Dragon and The Woman Clothed with the Sun. That is Gary Larson’s Cow Tools.
Do you see? Do you see what Ryan Flanders and his links has wrought?
Michael Dean outlines the life and accomplishments of one of comics’s preeminent biographers, Bill Schelly.
Cartoonist Pascal Girard spoke with cartoonist Travis Dandro about processing trauma, dealing with anxiety, and managing a full time life…and how all of those things came together for Dandro’s new memoir, King Of King Court.
Mark Newgarden and Frank M. Young discuss their love for Cecil Jensen’s Elmo, and the reason Young decided to make this unheralded classic available again via print on demand.
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day has quietly become one of the most beloved comics of the year, which is only the latest chapter in the cartoonist’s weird and delightful career. Brian Nicholson makes his way through all the purposeful deceit surrounding the cartoonist in our new profile.
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm speaks with Alex Dueben about the difficulty of making graphic novel out of a conflict-free story where every reader knows the ending: Moonbound, the story of Apollo 11.
The last time a Russian Minister tried to mess around with America’s favorite fictional characters, Jack Bauer got super frustrated. I’m just saying! Ryan Flanders has all the details, and many more, in his weekly news round-up!
In this obituary, Kent Worcester discusses Donald Rooum, who is best known for his comic strip “Wildcat,” as well as his numerous contributions to anarchist comics anthologies and publications.
Blue Delliquanti and Dylan Edwards are both cartoonists working in the field of queer and trans spec fic for kids and teens. In this interview, they talk with Melanie Gillman about the power of LGBTQ spec fic as a genre to challenge existing infrastructures, provide escapes, and create allegorical mirrors for young queer and trans readers.
In this interview from TCJ #247, political cartoonist Donal Rooum talks to Ken Worcester about anarchy, gag cartooning, and typography.
Tim Hayes takes a measured look at the British comics published under the IPC Youth Group umbrella, now available again thanks to Rebellion and their deep, Dredd-full pockets.
Cynthia Rose takes a long look at Blake & Mortimer, the wildly successful series of comics by Edgar P. Jacobs, its creator’s personal history…and his somewhat tortured relationship with Hergé.
Simone Castaldi takes an extensive look back at the career of artist Massimo Mattioli, who spent much of his life innovating Italian comics.
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is recently back in industry news, regarding his partial ownership of the rights to Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood. In this article from TCJ #265 (January-February 2005), Michael Dean traces Rosenberg’s trajectory through comics industry and Hollywood up to that point.
This week, Ryan finally acknowledges Newsarama and Spawn, thus completing what is known as Satan’s “Final Phase”. Kevin Sorbo, save us all!
Sometimes you just gotta ignore the rules, or else you won’t be able to put your hands on a classic. Kurt Ankeny explains, in today’s Diary!
Marc Sobel’s travels took him down South, to the legendary Book Nook, where TCJ’s editor once bought a bootleg version of “Cop Killer”, as sung by Soundgarden. Today, Marc is just talking comics.
Today, Kurt Ankeny’s Diary turns the volume way down so that color and patience can tell the story pretty much on their own.
Kurt Ankeny may think he’s got all the answers, but when it comes to swimming, “No” is a complete sentence. Diary: on the scene!
Cynthia Rose won’t loan you the plane fare for a French trip, but she will guide you through On the Road to Tōkaidō (Sur la route du Tōkaidō), currently running at the Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet in Paris!
Into every life, a little rain must fall. And sometimes the rain comes with lightning, and lightning doesn’t mess around or care at all about history. Kurt Ankeny has the receipts!
