The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part I
A year in comics now behind us. Who were we? What did we learn? And what could we forgive? Let’s find out together, month by month, day by day. For entertainment purposes only.
A year in comics now behind us. Who were we? What did we learn? And what could we forgive? Let’s find out together, month by month, day by day. For entertainment purposes only.
“Ha, they’ll think I’m talking about comics, but I’m actually talking about my car!”
A 1996 interview with the creator of Underworld.
Bill Griffith’s Invisible Ink is a memoir as fascinating in its way as Fun Home. Where Alison Bechdel gave us a look inside of a closeted life when closets were in flower, Griffith takes us across the border into the times before the times changed.
Today on the site, Rob Clough writes about Tom Hart’s powerful and affecting Rosalie Lightning. Hart hasn’t published much in recent years, aside from the odd short story or minicomic, but I’ve long considered him to be one of the greatest of what I refer to as the Xeric Generation of cartoonists, those whose careers… Read more »
Craig Fischer on Moore’s mind-bending masterpiece.
I always knew I was special. But it wasn’t until I bought comics that everyone else did too.
The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox – Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1970) The humble, photocopied minicomic sprang into being in the early 1970s and has become a prime engine of creativity in a vast subculture that today includes thousands of comics creators. This edition… Read more »
The From Under Mountains and Maps to the Suns creator talks about her new project, the importance of dynamic accuracy, and good sports comics—or the lack thereof.
The hard drinking romance-style crew.
A single word balloon rises.
Garrett Price’s White Boy, a vividly original comic strip set in the American West, appeared on the scene in 1933, shapeshifted three times in three years, and then faded into obscurity faster than a wind-blown smoke signal. Since then, a few slim sheaves of pages have been reprinted in book collections and magazines. These tantalizing excerpts have served to… Read more »
The cartoonist and author behind Mama Tried and Lulu Eightball tells all.