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Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 2)
Our story begins with Ham Fisher and the birth of Joe Palooka.
Héctor German Oesterheld’s Contributions to Mort Cinder
While the construction of Mort Cinder has been noted to be a flexible and collaborative effort between Breccia and Oesterheld, there are distinct and recurrent motifs in it which suggests it was not put together for reasons of mere entertainment or with little forethought. If anything, there is a coherence and depth in its plotting which suggests a steady hand at the tiller.
Episode 34: Ben Passmore
On the penultimate episode, the BTTM FDRS creator discusses the impact of Prince of Cats, shelving a post-collegiate magnum opus, and when leather jackets and moshing came to hip-hop.
Bandy Designys: New French Comics Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
Matt Seneca returned from his French vacation with a stack of comics. I know they call them something different over there, but i’m not over there, am I? Let’s see what he thought!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief
The story of Al Capp and Ham Fisher, two cartooning geniuses, their rise to celebrity and their furious interactions with each other, is the stuff of epic adventure fiction,
but here, it is fact.
The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part Two: Elmo Without Elmo
The later years, when Elmo made way for Little Debbie.
Folded Limbs
Let’s look back with Frank Young, and then pay homage to the world’s largest independent media conglomerate (in terms of revenue).
The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part One: The Road to Elmo
An appreciation of the 1940s strip Elmo, which was both ahead of its time and behind the times—possessing the absurd cool of a Nathanael West or S. J. Perelman and droll ensemble comedy reminiscent of Thimble Theater.
Sammy Stein on the Art/ifacts of the Real and the Virtual
Stein is at the forefront of the new French Abstract Formalist Comics, using photography, sculpture, and printed works to explore ontology and epistemology of representational image, among other things.
Face Front, True Believers: The Comics Industry Sounds Off on Stan Lee
In 1995, TCJ collected anecdotes from various comics creators, excerpted here.
Exploring a Specific, Lonely Psychic Wound: A Conversation with Yumi Sakugawa
The creator of Fashion Forecasts and I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You talks self-help, self-publishing, and collaboration.
The Cloven Field
There’s no better day of the week than this one right now: now let’s get cooking, with Marc Sobel & Sarah Horrocks.
Welcome to the Strip Mine
One of the great joys of comic book collecting is longbox surfing. You know what I mean, standing for hours sifting through filthy, disorganized boxes, carefully un-taping bags of one cheap floppy after another, scanning the credits, flipping the pages, gauging the condition, and, best of all, chatting with other geeks who actually get it.… Read more »
New Developments In Pickrodt Lawsuit May Point to a “Time-Consuming” Future
Recent developments in Cody Pickrodt’s defamation lawsuit, including counterclaims and amended complaints.
