COVID-19 & Comics – April 13th 2020
How is COVID-19 and attempts to contain it impacting comics makers, publishers and retailers? Our weekly update on that question is here.
Article Archive
I Know When To Go Out. I Know When To Stay In. – This Week’s Links
This is the week the comics world flexed back, and unleashed a torrent of news, reviews and things you can use to fight off the blues: Clark’s got the scorecard, and we’re gonna let him keep that ridiculous closer. He’s earned it!
Carnival Knowledge: On Mort Drucker
Craig Fischer takes a look at Mort Drucker’s legacy through the lens of one of his infamous movie spoofs. You’ll never look at Donald Sutherland the same again!
Art In Quarantine: Fifi Mandirac
We catch up with French artist Fifi Mandirac following her and her family’s second week of staying home and making do.
Hy Fleishman: 1927-2020
1950’s cartoonist Herman “Hy” Fleishman has passed away.
Earth Prime Comics
In this week’s conversation, Keith is talking with Damon Savage of Vermont’s Earth Prime Comics about how they’ve responded to being shut down, and what they’re worried about regarding the future of the medium.
COVID-19 & Comics – April 6th 2020
Our weekly update on how COVID-19 is impacting the industry surrounding comic books and graphic novels.
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!
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).
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.
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]
“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!
