‘I would potentially sacrifice my life to strangle you’: A Sentiment Against AI Art
Ben Passmore with the case against AI art.
Article Archive
You’ve Got Just Enough For Gas – This Week’s Links
Are this week’s links here? Signs point to… yes.
A New Chapter (11) for Diamond
A follow up to Diamond’s January 14, 2025 chapter 11 filing.
You’re My Obsession: A Conversation with Jon Macy
Robert Kirby talks to the author of Djuna Barnes: An Extraordinary Life about his career and interest in this early 20th-century author and LGBTQ icon.
500 dogs barking: Autofiction in and out of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Dog Days
Dog farming in Korea and autofiction in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Dog Days (Drawn and Quarterly, 2024).
Remembering Jules Feiffer
In celebration of Feiffer’s life and legacy, Andrew Farago reached out to some of Feiffer’s friends, colleagues and admirers and asked them to share appreciations and anecdotes from those who knew and loved him.
Bustin’ Out Dead or Alive – This Week’s Links
There’s a lot to be said for putting your phone down, but not when Clark Burscough is here with a fistful of links
Jules Feiffer and Autistic America
In this 1996 archival piece, R.C. Harvey, who was close in age to Jules Feiffer, walks the reader through the cartoonist’s oeuvre and impact.
Sook-Yin Lee with Chester Brown on the story behind the film version of Paying For It
“…he maintained that he had no flaws, to which I countered, ‘That’s a flaw!'” Sook-Yin Lee with Chester Brown on making the film adaptation of Brown’s Paying For it.
“It’s our responsibility to rise to these challenges”: Talking independent comics with Silver Sprocket’s Avi Ehrlich
Avi Ehrlich talks to Jason Bergman about running Silver Sprocket: will America finally take home the gold in a pink boiler suit? We’re all waiting for next summer’s olympics to fine out!
Matt Bors on leaving political cartooning for Justice Warriors and Toxic Avenger
Matt Petras talks to cartoonist Matt Bors and his collaborators, Fred Harper and Ben Clarkson. about his new projects.
‘Humans are designed to search for logic in chaos’: Ari Richter on his graphic memoir, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Ari Richter talks to Gary Groth about his graphic memoir, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz.
Feiffer remembered: Interviews and other items from the TCJ archives
As part of our homage to the mighty Jules Feiffer, who died of congestive heart failure on Jan. 17, 2025 at the age of 95, we thought we’d highlight a few articles and interview from our back pages.
Give Yourself A Present – This Week’s Links
Visualise this week’s links being hurriedly spoken in a dream to you in reverse, while you are seated in a big armchair surrounded by blood red curtains.
Writer, cartoonist Jules Feiffer dies at 95
After drawing and writing everything there was to draw and write, Jules Feiffer passed away at the age of 95.
Arrivals and Departures — January 2025
RJ Casey shakes the 8-ball to find out once and for all, are ‘zines’ electric? Mini-reviews are the only news you can use!
Family is a cult: Troy Nixey and Yo Kuri on their upcoming horror comic, Blood Magic Tales
Yo Kuri and Troy Nixey talk to Jean Marc Ah-Sen about their new collaboration, Blood Magic Tales.
Remembering John Cassaday, Dec. 14, 1971-Sept. 9, 2024
Alex Dueben provides a memorial to the Planetary and X-Men artist, who died back in September.
Cold Weather Blues – This Week’s Links
Well, we are a whole 17 days into the new year, a scant quarter of a century into this increasingly less-new millennium, and we’ve already hit 2025’s allocation of Too Much News.
Excerpt from Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund
An excerpt from Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk (Fantagraphhics, 2024).
Political cartoonists on facing Donald Trump, again: ‘There is no consensus reality anymore’
Shrinking newspaper circulations. Social media morass. First amendment rights. Zach Rabiroff talks to a variety of cartoonists about all that and more as we head into a second Donald Trump administration.
“I am not a Satanist, but I love the devil” an interview with Corinne Halbert
Corinne Halbert of Acid Nun fame talks to Jim Falcone about meals of human flesh.
What will potential tariffs mean for comics publishers in 2025? ‘We’ll likely have less customers’
Gina Gagliano talked to a host of comics publishers to get a sense of what the potential effects of increased tariffs from the new Trump administration could be.
