Another Look at the East Village Eye
“There was no money. I think we were actually paid in drugs.” — Mark Michaelson, former art director The East Village Eye Lower New York has been the scene for numerous “art movements,” and the decade between the mid-70s and mid-80s sure was one of them, especially for the convergence of comics, “art,” and punk John Kelly | February 15, 2016
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part IV
Then came the Fall. The startling, not to say stupefying, comics controversies from the final months of 2015. And finally: what have we learned?
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part III
We know what you did last summer. Plus Surprise Bonus Content—Tim O’Neil on the year in superhero comics.
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part II
Looking back at comics news from April through June. Who were we? What did we learn? And what could we forgive? Let’s find out together. For entertainment purposes only.
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.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/10/16 – Fate Laughs At My Efforts to Save Money)
“Ha, they’ll think I’m talking about comics, but I’m actually talking about my car!”
An Interview with Kaz
A 1996 interview with the creator of Underworld.
The Nobel Prize for Cuckoldry
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.
Rush
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 »
Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, and the Body of the Other
Craig Fischer on Moore’s mind-bending masterpiece.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (2/3/16 – I don’t care what you say, this French trophy I got for best column ever is real as hell.)
I always knew I was special. But it wasn’t until I bought comics that everyone else did too.
The Minicomix Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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 »
Discussing Sports and Comics with Sloane Leong
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.