Article Archive
“Trail May Lead to the Ends of Infinity”
A close reading of The Mighty Thor # 166 (July 1969).
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/18/14 – The Time Has Come to Go to Winter Wonderland)
I am sweating. Better spend some money.
A Conversation with Hillary Chute
A dialogue with Hillary Chute about Outside the Box, Comics: Philosophy and Practice, canons, and projects.
National Cartoonists Society Pats Itself on the Back But Who Better Qualified To Do It?
The big takeaway from the Memorial Day weekend meeting of the National Cartoonists Society is that Non Sequitur’s Wiley Miller was named Cartoonist of the Year and presented with the Reuben, a heavy metal statuette in the shape of a pile of comical characters.
“Ugly Is Good”: An Interview with Katie Skelly
The Operation Margarine creator talks biker films, science fiction, sex, and escape.
Here’s the Thing About Collectors
Uber-collectors Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve have invited many guests over the years to enjoy their collection of pop culture and sequential art, but with the publication of The Blighted Eye they have unleashed their eclectic tastes onto a broader audience
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (6/11/14 – Motion Pictures)
Gee, people commented on the Robert Crumb stuff last week… maybe if I say something about Jack Kirby… yeah! And post a movie! YEAH!
Ever Heard of Calvin and Hobbes?
Rob Clough on QU33R, Bob Levin on Ariel Schrag, Greg Hunter on Sex Criminals, the return of Bill Watterson, and much more.
State of the Art: QU33R
Kirby’s new anthology is very much a reaction to and extension of Justin Hall’s No Straight Lines. If the latter represents the past of queer comics, Kirby wanted to take a snapshot of its present.
Sarah Glidden on Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza
Mike talks to comics journalist Sarah Glidden about Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza.
Thought Bubble Burst
Frank Santoro on Malachi Ward, Craig Fischer on Pascal Girard, and lots of comics talk.
Malachi Ward
Echo of Futurepast
The Mysterious Clover: Matsumoto Katsuji, Douglas Fairbanks, and the Reformed Modern Girl
Last time, I argued that one of the first commodity icons of Japanese kawaii was probably based on a mix of Grace Drayton’s New Kids dolls and American jazz age cartooning. This time I want to focus on a sixteen-page comic published as a premium insert furoku for “a girl’s best friend,” the magazine Shōjo no tomo, in April 1934.
