The Best Comics of the Decade (Are All Judge Dredd)
Tom Shapira looks back at the last ten years of Judge Dredd, John Wagner, and trying to use violence as a solution.
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“Everybody Is Going To Get Real Miserable Really Quickly”: An Interview with Dylan Meconis
Dylan Meconis catches Alex up on what it took to get to “done” with her 400 page Queen Elizabeth graphic novel, guesstimates how far along things are with her webcomic Family Man, and apologizes for the heavy physical lifting involved in keeping up with her work via print.
Catherine Meurisse: The Face Of French Comics Is Female
Catherine Meurisse speaks to Cynthia Rose about her majestic collaboration with Alexandre Dumas (yup!) Delacroix, what she’s got planned as one of the three artist-sponsors of the French “Year of The Comic”.
Kick Off My Shoes, and Swim Good (This Week’s Links)
Ryan Flanders goes hard into social media this week, with a level of links not often seen outside of an aggregation machine. Get ready for art, friend.
On Publishing Stephen Dixon
Gary Groth reminisces on the experience of publishing Stephen Dixon, who passed away earlier this winter.
“I Am The OPPOSITE Of A Perfectionist”: A Conversation With Archie Bongiovanni
Annie Mok catches up with Archie Bongiovanni about comics, mental health, and the recent BOOM! publication of Grease Bats, Archie’s popular webcomic that originally appeared at Autostraddle.
“I Feel Like Comics Needs Its Own Thing”: An Interview with Daniel Clowes
Bill Kartalopoulos and Daniel Clowes played a career-long-catch-up in 2014 for the French journal Collection Revue, and that conversation now makes its way to our digital shores!
Gary Panter: Drawings, 1973-2019
Gary Panter annotates 29 of his drawings, selected by Nicole Rudick & Dan Nadel, for a recent gallery showing in New York at Fredericks & Freiser.
Pick a B.C. Date ‘Cause You’re History (This Week’s Links)
Ryan’s 2020 continues to take off like a rocket. Can he link to it all? There’s only one way to find out, friend.
“There Is No Doctor Octopus”: An Interview with Wojtek Wawszczyk
Wojtek Wawszczyk’s 2018 graphic novel “Mr. Lightbulb” won a good bit of acclaim in Poland, but he’s not resting on his laurels: there’s always another story to tell. Michael Chudolinski has the story.
Let’s Get Physical: An Interview With Elsa Charretier
Elsa Charretier sits down with Aug Stone to catch us up on her successful Kickstarter, how to record a commentary for an Image Comic, and the merits of getting out there and taking chances.
Underneath the Skin of the Grapevines (This Week’s Links)
Welcome to 2020, and welcome the links that lay before the perfect vision of Ryan Flanders. Let’s hear it for the lefties!
J.J. Grandville: A Matter of Line & Death
Cynthia Rose uncovers the legendary life of a master, J.J. Grandville, whose work is on display at Paris’ Maison de Balzac through January 13th, 2020.
Like the Cro-Mags with Chrome Mags (This Week’s Links)
It’s your last installment of Your Friday Flanders of 2019! What comics news, comics blues and comics reviews will make this week’s installment? Time to find out!
The Best Comics of 2019
Comics Journal contributors chime in with their favorite comics, artists and reads from the year that was: 2019.
My Agenda’s Got A Different Twirl (This Week’s Links)
The sands of time may fall through the webbings of your fingers, but the sands of comics news won’t…for Ryan Flanders, who has hands similar to the feet of an American duck, allowing the granules of comics news to stick, for future linking. That future is now!
“It’s Not A Slam-Bang-Action-So-Quiet”: An Interview with Cliff Chiang and Brian K. Vaughan
Upon the eve of its conclusion, Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang discuss the history behind their Paper Girls series, and no nuts, bolts, warts, or feelings are left behind.
Return To The Book Nook
Marc Sobel’s archaeological finds include The Miracle Squad, Steve Bissette classics, R.L. Stine (huh?) and a comic that was actually published in 2019: you read that right. Go ahead and open your presents early!
Ming! Ming! Ming!
Sexton Ming and J.T. Dockery’s 15-years-in-the-making collaboration, Kenttucky Pussy, made its way into the world via Nix Comix, earlier this year. Bob Levin took the trip, and he’s recovered enough to explain.
Nobody’s Muse (This Week’s Links)
Here’s thirty items to peruse on your way to the airport. Which one of them will reveal Ryan’s lust for Friday The 13th related humor?
Malcy Duff: Day Five
You never know what people are thinking about when they’re standing next to you. Maybe they turned you into a slimy beast!
Re-Writing the Revolution: In Conversation with Jesús Cossio and Carla Sagástegui
The Peruvian duo discuss their latest work, Ya nadie te sacará de tu tierra, and the role of comics in political discourse.
