THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/13/15 – A Blaze of Retrospect)
THE OLDEST IN AUTHENTIC MANGA, RIGHT HERE, ALL WEEK.
THE OLDEST IN AUTHENTIC MANGA, RIGHT HERE, ALL WEEK.
A review, in comics form, of Bill Schelly’s new biography Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America.
We have two Rob Clough reviews for you this morning. First, he writes about a collection of Eric Orner’s Completely Unfabulous Life of Ethan Green: Getting [this] published in one volume is an important step to building continuity in the history of gay comics. Once a widely-distributed strip in gay-oriented publications, the comic became popular… Read more »
It’s Tuesday, and Joe McCulloch is here to prep you for the Week in Comics, and also to tell you about his experiences at this past weekend’s Free Comic Book Day: “So what do you think of Convergence?” “It’s a piece of shit.” We were almost 90 minutes into our first stop, and Chris had… Read more »
A subterranean journey through Free Comic Book Day.
Dustin Harbin joins me for a conversation about Batman Year One, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Full disclosure, I went into this pick totally wanting to hate on it and hate on Frank Miller, but I have to stay honest (that’s the TCJ Talkies Code) and admit this book is still a solidly satisfying… Read more »
Today on the site: Matt Seneca interviews Guy Colwell. MS: Comics is such a natural refuge for figurative art that it’s makes sense you’d end up there. But Inner City Romance also incorporates a lot of abstraction, both in the visuals and the plots, such as they are. What appealed to you about the long… Read more »
Guy Colwell’s Inner City Romance is the most politically cogent of the San Francisco underground comics by leaps and bounds.
Armstrong (1917-2007) was a man-sized pixie with a gray beard and a haystack hair-do and dark Mephistophlean eyebrows, an archetypically elfin presence who saw the humor in humanity’s parade and delighted in it.
Just a simple, old-fashioned column this week. No fuss.
In this 1992 interview from The Comics Journal #154, Gary Groth and Peter Bagge talk with Daniel Clowes about art school, Lloyd Llewellyn, and the beginnings of Eightball.
Show and tell.
The creator of Nurse Nurse talks about a pivotal book in the manga master’s oeuvre.