Link’s Awakening – This Week’s Links
It’s Friday, which means it is time for Ryan F…wait a second! That’s Clark Burscough, and he’s got a whole bunch of links with him! It’s a whole new thing!
Article Archive
Genre as a Trojan Horse: A Roundtable with Tanna Tucker, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Ben Passmore, and Ron Wimberly
A wide-ranging roundtable look at one of the best graphic novels of 2019, BTTM FDRS.
Legend Comics & Coffee
In this installment of our comics retail interview column, Keith Silva
COVID-19 & Comics
An overview of how the global pandemic has begun to impact comics, their creators, and the businesses that surround both.
Irene Vartanoff’s 1980 Marvel Warehouse Inventory List
This is a facsimile edition of Irene Vartanoff’s inventory list, as it was reprinted in The Comics Journal #105 (February 1986).
An Erection Four Decades Long: The Pornography of Wally Wood
A long look at the years that the famous cartoonist spent creating porn, spurred by the 2019 Fantagraphics publication, Cons de Fee: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood. [Contains Explicit Imagery]
Albert Uderzo: 1927-2020
He came, he drew, he conquered. Co-creator of one of the world’s most beloved comics, Astérix, Albert Uderzo passed away on March 24th at the age of 92.
“I’m Surprised!”: An Interview with Andrew Neal about Meeting Comics
Retailer turned cartoonist Andrew Neal catches up with TCJ about the first print collection of his gag strip, Meeting Comics, which transitioned from “lunch break work” to a full-fledged universe in record time!
“A Diary Of Time Itself”: An Academic Roundtable on Chris Ware’s Rusty Brown
A major work from a major artist, the first installment of Chis Ware’s collected Rusty Brown was released in the winter of 2019. Martha Kuhlman and the authors & scholars behind 2010”s Comics of Chris Ware reunited to discuss the work.
Diamond Comics To End Weekly Comics Delivery Starting April 1st Until Further Notice
Read the letter Steve Geppi sent to comics retailers and publishers regarding the impact of COVID-19 on Diamond Comics.
An Open Letter To Comic Readers
Comics retail speaks out about ways to help out that part of the industry at an uncertain and difficult time.
Kevin Budnik: Day Six
Kevin closes out his week of Cartoonist’s Diary entries with the classiest of cliffhanger conclusions: unanswered questions!
Kevin Budnik: Day Five
There’s a lot to love in today’s installment of Kevin’s Diary (and there’s still one more surprise day to go!), but for our money, the crowd pleasing moment is the very specific instructions that go down during dinner. Get some!
Kevin Budnik: Day Four
It’s time to inventory the desk, where creation lives. Wait, that happens on the dining room table? Kevin: explain!
Kevin Budnik: Day Three
Today is a simple one for Kevin, who finds some time outside of drawing and frustration to check in on the soundtrack of friendship.
Michel Fiffe, Ed Piskor, and Tom Scioli Make Corporate Comics Their Way
Three cartoonists who like to play the field sit down to figure out where the loyalties lie–the comics or the characters?
Kevin Budnik: Day Two
Kevin packs more into a day than I would into a week, and then you sit straight up in bed, wild-eyed and out of breath. “Holy shit” you say, “And he still found time to draw it, too?”
Adopt to Resist: When Comics Embrace Internet Aesthetics
The internet is where so many of us live, and it’s a world with its own aesthetics, language and texture. What happens when those begin to bubble up in comics? Nicholas has a theory for just that question!
Kevin Budnik: Day One
Kevin Budnik’s Cartoonist Diary begins–and today sees him asking the question of whether he’s said everything one can with this medium. Let’s answer that for him: not yet, Kevin! Keep them coming.
Strictly Business (Flanders’ Last Links)
“I thought we’d get to see forever”, I said, “But forever’s gone away,” Ryan responded. “I don’t know where this road is going is going to lead. All I know is where we’ve been. And what we’ve been through!”
“I Would Never Draw Except To Tell A Story.”: An Interview with Nick Maandag
The king of deadpan sat down with his number one fan to talk about his latest collection of comics, The Follies of Richard Wadsworth.
The Copacetic Comics Company
In the first Retail Therapy of 2020, we’re catching up with Bill Boichel, whose Copacetic Comics Company is legitimately one of a kind!
