A Conversation with Gabrielle Bell
Chatting with the cartoonist about process, communication and the status of autobiography.
Chatting with the cartoonist about process, communication and the status of autobiography.
A visit with one of the true greats of American underground comics in his Paris studio.
Greatness and minimalism in a disposable kid’s comic . . .
In this interview from TCJ #216, Megan Kelso and Gary Groth talk about the latter’s artistic development, sex in comics, self-publishing minicomics in the 1990s, and much more: introduction by Jason Lutes (Berlin, CCS).
Bob Levin’s story about Robert Crumb’s lawyer, Albert Morse, begins with the Amazon “Keep on Truckin” lawsuit.
Everyone wants to know the future of comics. Here’s one of ’em.
In this brief excerpt from the extensive Maurice Sendak interview in The Comics Journal #302, Sendak talks to Groth about 9/11, Outside Over There and how children process memory.
The glory of the sex and violence of EC Comics.
In this excerpt from The Comics Journal #302, comic-book artist Lew Sayre Schwartz asks Roy Crane about the advent of continuity in his adventure newspaper strips.
Warren Bernard cites his sources for his Comics Journal #302 article, “Bloody Massacre: How Fredric Wertham Public Backlash and the 1954 Senate Delinquency Hearings Threw Comics on the Bonfire” and provides documents from the recently opened Frederic Wertham papers that shed new light on the Senate comic book Hearings of 1954.
Since the Invasion of these literaries, I have been observing a tendency to ask the question: if this weren’t a comic would it stand up? Would the story be any good if it were prose and in competition with the rest of the world’s prose? If we take away all these damn pictures, would the stuff that is left be worth a hoot?
France! Teach me to kiss, France!
These notes reference Gavin Callaghan’s “Authors Meet Images: Cartoonists Before Comics” essay published in The Comics Journal #302.