The Day I Almost Killed Kurt Busiek
On the ground and in the bars at 29th Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona
Article Archive
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/4/11 – Free Column Day)
A tin-can jubilee.
Filing Kim Deitch
Reading Kim Deitch means reading Kim Deitch about Kim Deitch, and burrowing into a 20th century history of his own creation.
Layout Workbook 8
This week we’re going to look at the proportions of the Mome comics anthology.
Hillary Chute and the Dynamics of Autobiography
Hillary Chute’s Graphic Women examines autobiographical comics through a literary lens; and yet how to reckon with the mysterious “Judith Forest”‘s performative “autobiographies?”
Publishing, Power, and Print Purgatory: Inside the Tokyopop Rights Situation
Tokyopop will not be reverting rights back to their creators of original content, and is in discussion with certain creators regarding contract buyouts, a source told the Comics Journal this week.
Bulletproof: The Kane & Hine Interview
An interview with Shaky Kane and David Hine, creators of The Bulletproof Coffin, a candy-coated, psychedelic superhero romp that doubles as a savage condemnation of the comics industry.
Evan Dorkin
The first episode of a new biweekly podcast. The special guest: Milk & Cheese creator Evan Dorkin.
Gahan Wilson and the Comedy of the Weird
For decades, Wilson has been aiming his shrinking ray at monsters and aliens and evil humans of all sorts, and distilled their most terrifying qualities into cartoons.
Making “Genius”: Mullaney and Canwell on Alex Toth
A conversation with the authors of the new Alex Toth biography, Genius, Isolated.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (4/27/11 – No More Thinking)
On the ideological dialectic of Steve Ditko’s squiggles and how a slap is sometimes like a kiss. Plus: more comics; more drugs.
Bill Blackbeard, R.I.P.
The man who gave comics its memory.
Bill Blackbeard, The Man Who Saved Comics, Dead at 84
Bill Blackbeard, without question or quibble, is the only absolutely indispensable figure in the history of comics scholarship for the last quarter century.
Bill Blackbeard: Tributes
Words of appreciation from Gary Groth, Chris Ware, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Mark Newgarden, Robert Beerbohm, Michael Tisserand, Peter Maresca, Trina Robbins, and others as they come in.
Layout Workbook 7
This week we’re going to look at the frescoes of Giotto and riff on simultaneity.
Pascal Girard: Day 5
Pascal Girard wraps it up, and goes home to rest.
