Jen Lee: Day Five
Don’t want to reverse it.
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“Comics Was the Reliable Thing”: An Interview with Michael DeForge
Michael DeForge’s new graphic novel, Big Kids, follows the teenaged Adam through a conflict with his cop uncle, a mysterious college-aged stranger named April moving in with him and his family, and a jarring breakup with his jerky boyfriend, which then sparks a traumatic, permanent shift in his PoV.
Jen Lee: Day Four
I want to stop missing things.
Jen Lee: Day Three
Mapping out my head.
Daniel Clowes and Patience: An Interview
A conversation about process, structure, and aesthetics.
Jen Lee: Day Two
Still thinking about the sky.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/16/16 – L’Amour braque)
Men thinking about women, in different times and places…
Connecticut Cartoonists #3: Quality Folks
Jack and Gill.
Jen Lee: Day One
Bothered by how the sun hits the rooms in a new house.
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
An excerpt focusing on Vanessa Davis’s work, taken from Tahneer Oksman’s important new contribution to the study of comics and identity.
Ghost
Whit Taylor, an occasional contributor to TCJ, has been slowly finding her style as both a writer and illustrator. Her newest book, Ghost, represents her most fully-formed project to date. It’s an interesting blend of magical realism, self-examination, and brutally honest autobio. The book’s formal qualities blend seamlessly with its ideas and emotional content, as… Read more »
Alex Robinson on Our Expanding Universe and His Serious Efforts to Keep Cartooning Fun
The Box Office Poison creator talks about his new book, his podcasting empire, what killed Career Killer, and how his work methods haven’t changed substantially since the 1990s.
Patience
Fragile male egos have long been the catalyst for conflict in popular fiction. Take, for example, this passage from the story of Aucassin and Nicolette, transcribed by an anonymous author in the twelfth century, in which Aucassin is addressing his captive lover: “Be sure that if thou were found in any man’s bed, save it… Read more »
The Anxiously Subversive Comics of Adam Buttrick
Buttrick was born and raised in the Midwest, but you wouldn’t know it from his comics. They feel universal, otherworldly, or more precisely, untraceable.
Generous Bosom 2
Sex is messy. Even if viewed as a liberating force, its connection to the irrevocable fact of reproduction gives it so much importance that half-understood readings of Freud or Zizek have it believably determining the bulk of our unconscious desires, which are then enacted in ways that essentially determine our civilization. If sex shapes our… Read more »
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/9/16 – Lightning Returns)
Gotta go fast…
