“The first beach resort built in Jiyeh faces our house. From then on, we were denied entry to the shore.” Rawand Issa’s memoir-inflected comic zeroes in on the most visible alterations to the landscape of her childhood: the sprawl of luxury resorts that rapidly develops along the beaches of her Lebanon hometown. A defiant song… Read more »
Catching up with the unmistakable artist of Orc Stain, some standout Godzilla and Alien comics, and the ongoing martial arts saga Orphan and the Five Beasts.
I said the word news so many times it sounds funny, so now I have a new word: triumph.
Minami-kun no Koibito originally ran from October 1986 to June 1987 in the magazine Garo. That this overlaps with the original run of Watchmen as a monthly comic is pure coincidence, mentioned here only for the purpose of situating our story in its place in history. You will understand the significance of the late ’80s… Read more »
In this excerpt, Helen Chazan reconsiders Kim Thompson’s landmark essay “A Modest Proposal: More Crap is What We Need” by way of Brian K. Vaughan’s and Fiona Staples’ Image megahit Saga.
This time Bob’s taking on Where have you been?, a collection of 25 years’ worth of comics from artist Ivana Filipovich, who drew for years, stopped for years, then drew for years more.
PTSD Radio, a formerly digital-only manga translation now published as three Omnibus volumes by Kodansha, is less a cohesive story than a narrative locus. The source point from which the premise emerges is the deity Ogushi, whose idol unleashes supernatural bodily horrors upon the largely-unsuspecting citizens of a fictional Japanese town following a failure to… Read more »
Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi recently concluded Future, his solo anthology series, with the release of its 10th issue. The series mostly examines immiseration of the consumer class under capitalism, as projected through the lens of fantasy and science fiction. Musturi pulls no punches in showing how the modern condition alienates us from each other, how… Read more »
Sit yourself down for a career-spanning interview with eclectic cartoonist, illustrator and musician Leah Hayes – everything from dreams to songwriting to craft and parenthood is covered, as the artist tours her first children’s book.
That certainly was a lot of ways to describe Stan Lee.
The truth must be told, against all accusations of bias or partiality: I once drove two hours to buy an issue of this comic. True, it wasn’t the only comic book on my list. But I don’t get down to larger stores very damn often, and when I do, it’s a production. Lists are involved;… Read more »
In this excerpt from the “Fair Warning” column in The Comics Journal #309—introducing readers to up-and-coming artists—the cartoonist, teacher and self-publisher Hyena Hell talks to Kristy Valenti about movement and backgrounds in her work.
A short overview of a characteristic South Korean webtoon – not extremely popular, but the engine of small sectors of popular culture, and enough to cultivate a cartooning middle class increasingly foreign to the west.
A profile of Swedish publisher Horst Schröder, whose Epix Förlag brought the world of adult comics to Scandinavia, before collapsing amidst legal and financial woes.
Blissfully timed for the comics industry’s current problems over intractable historic fault lines, here’s a new documentary about Stan Lee made by people who are in every sense invested in The Man’s image rights. What can another examination of this most analyzed of men tell us that is not already known? What new perspective about… Read more »
The cartoonist Jason Overby considers a characteristic work by the late artist Morgan Vogel, and her presentation online in the persona labyrinth of online discussion.
The Sickness is a new horror series spanning an ambitious 14 serial issues; Hagai Palevsky sits down with Lonnie Nadler & Jenna Cha, who’ve been planning this project for years.
Remembering the artist who best defined the romance and lively youth of Marvel Comics in the ’60s and early ’70s; John Romita died on June 12.
*CONTAINS SPOILERS* Well hoss, since you’ve called my bluff, it behooves me to lay my cards on the table: I’m just not a big Wonder Woman person. Restrain your anger, please. As I believe I’ve mentioned, I had a solid few years right at the height of my youth devoted to straight-ticket Marvel. Nothing but,… Read more »
In this excerpt from The Comics Journal #309, cartoonist, self-publisher and distributor Inés Estrada talks to cartoonist, self-publisher and distributor John Porcellino.
In this 2003 interview, Tom Spurgeon interviews John Romita, who is best known for his 1960s run on The Amazing Spider-Man.
Italian comics vs. Italian football: find out who runs the streets of Naples as Valerio Stivé reports in from Comicon Napoli 2023.
Jason chats with Tom Kaczynski of Uncivilized Books about the potential impacts of AI and its “slick magic.”
