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Emerald City Comic Con, Noah Van Sciver reading and Fantagraphics Office Field Trip
Chris Anthony Diaz goes to Emerald City Comic Con, Ana. visit to the Fantagraphics offices and bookstore for a Noah Van Sciver signing.
Tout est tranquille – This Week’s Links
Enjoy this week’s links, below, as we head into the calm before the storm of the summer convention and festival season.
Far from easy comfort: An examination of Jordan Crane’s Goes Like This
Hagai Palevsky examines the grim endings and abstracted happiness found in this new collection of Jordan Crane’s work
‘I’m doing the work I need to do to live with myself’: Joe Sacco on democracy, genocide, and drawing the truth
Joe Sacco talks to Zach Rabiroff about stories past and future, as well as the endless misery.
‘Insane, but not impossible’: ALIVE OUTSIDE editors Cullen Beckhorn and Marc Bell discuss their ambitious anthology
Cullen Beckhorn and Marc Bell on their co-edoted anthology, ALIVE OUTSIDE, interviewed by Bill Boichel of the beloved Copacetic Comics.
Unraveling the mystery of the man called Mad Peck, 1942-2025
John Peck, the underground cartoonist, music and comics historian, disc jockey, pack rat, and many other things, better known as the Mad Peck, and sometimes known as Dr. Oldie, died on March 15 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 82.
The Fate Remains Mysterious: an update on Diamond’s bankruptcy
Part three of Brigid Alverson’s coverage of the Diamond Comics bankruptcy.
Comics and Trump’s tariffs 2.0: ‘They might fuck us up at any moment’
Gina Gagliano follows up in how the comic book publishing industry is being affected by the Trump administration’s reckless tariffs.
The blunt force and furry drama Of Toxic Metal Press
Welcome back to High-Low, a column that originated at TCJ.com in December of 2009. It was originally about mini-comics and small-press comics publishers, but since RJ Casey has the mini-comics part of things covered with his monthly column, I thought I’d focus on the output of specific small presses. When you think of a small-press… Read more »
Jack Katz, 1927-2025
Jack Katz, born Sept. 27, 1927, is best known for his landmark epic The First Kingdom which paved the way for future long-form graphic novels.
Cities in Flight — This Week’s Links
Let’s spend Friday as is traditional, by reading this week’s links.
Kent Worcester: ‘If they need me, they can find me in the twentieth century’
20th Century Man, Kent Worcester, talks the past, the present and The Punisher.
MoCCA 2025: Comic art building connections
MoCCA 2025 attracted over 8,000 attendees and featured more than 400 exhibiting artists, showcasing the diverse and dynamic world of comics and cartooning.
U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: ‘No one should be here’
On Feb. 26, 2025, Rebecca Burke became a prisoner of the United States immigration system. Burke, a 28-year-old comic artist from Wales, had come to the U.S. on a tourist visa on Jan. 7, in the waning days of the Biden administration, with a backpacking itinerary that entailed staying with friendly homeowners in exchange for… Read more »
The Egg, A Symbol of Life — This Week’s Links
Let’s skip the preamble and dive straight on down into some of that unceasing news.
Drama! On the Diamond bankruptcy docket
An update on Diamond Comic’s bankruptcy filing from Brigid Alverson.
Arrivals and Departures — April 2025
RJ Casey looks at color and coloring and cuts a rug in April’s Arrivals and Departures.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse: A review
The documentary, Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, reviewed by William Schwartz.
An interview with Crumb biographer Dan Nadel: ‘He has this incredible instinct for survival’
The author of Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life talks with TCJ co-editor Chris Mautner about the book and its subject matter.
Greg and Fake Petre (and friends) Silver Sprocket/Cape and Cowl signing photo gallery
Two stops on Greg and Fake Petre’s Santos Sisters Springtime Tour, visited and captured by Chris Anthony Diaz.
Back to the Top of the Slide – This Week’s Links
Heading into Calvinball territory this week, whereupon the only confirmed known is to constantly expect the unknown.
