Luke Healy: Day Four
Today: the day that Luke Healy’s long search for vegetarian options at Irish restaurants finally reached a satisfactory end. And then one of his “friends” tries to ruin the moment?! Cartoonist Diary, tell the tale!
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All There Is: Andrew White On Kevin Huizenga
In 2017, Andrew White took a look at Kevin Huizenga’s Ganges in a zine called All There Is. In advance of White and Huizenga’s soon to be published TCJ interview, we’re pleased to republish that zine digitally.
Luke Healy: Day Three
In today’s installment, Luke digs into his archives and finds memory lane slow going. After that? It’s time to watch movies with the fam, which is its own kind of roller coaster.
Luke Healy: Day Two
Another day, another meal made up of french fries. (Luke Healy calls ’em chips, but we all know what he means!) Then it’s off to the cemetery to feed the rabbits. His words!
“The Sanest Guys In The Ball Park”: An Interview With Paul Tumey
Paul Tumey reflects back on the conclusion of a seven year project: Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny. In this conversation with Michael Tisserand, Tumey walks us through the history of American newspaper comics comedy..and to define the word “screwballist”!
Luke Healy: Day One
You can’t go home again–hey, wait a second! Shouldn’t that be that you “shouldn’t”? Maybe this week’s Cartoonist Diary can square that circle. Take us to church, Luke Healy!
We Hit Too Many Left Turns to Make It Right (This Week’s Links)
Ryan Flanders is here, and with him are all the links you could require! East Coasters: make sure you’ve got your autograph books ready for this weekend–all your favorite celebrities are on the prowl!
The Comics Journal #304: Excerpt from The Simon Hanselmann Interview
In this excerpt from TCJ #304, Hanselmann talks about Gretzkys, the relationship between autobiography and fiction, and selling stuffed animals.
“I Took It Very Serious”: An Interview With Johanna Maierski
Kim Jooha catches up with Johanna Maierski of Colorama, a small comics press out of Germany with a focus on quality, community and wildcard beauty.
Gary Groth on Bill Schelly
I don’t remember when I met Bill Schelly, but it may have been as late as 2006, when he pitched the idea of a Joe Kubert biography to me. It may have been earlier—and we may have corresponded briefly in the 1970s, as two teen-age comics fans putting out fanzines—but if we did, it would’ve… Read more »
If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Probably Still Ignore Me (This Week’s Links)
If you’re starting your Friday off with anything other than the Ryan Flanders Rundown, then you’re just asking for trouble. Nothing sheds those Thetans faster than ten pounds of comics links packed into a five pound bag–why, just ask my main man Bart Sears!
“They Left Me Alone And That Was Pretty Great”: An Interview With Phil Jimenez
Phil Jimenez talks with Alex Dueben about highlights from his twenty-eight year career in comics, the importance of mental health in the LGBTQ comics community, and why he’s returning to Wonder Woman.
“Rhyme With The Images”: An Interview with Frank Santoro
Frank Santoro sits down with Caitlin McGurk to talk in detail about Pittsburgh, his most widely anticipated release from New York Review Comics.
Bill Schelly Tributes
Bill Schelly’s collaborators, compatriots and friends describe what it was like working with him, reading with him, and sharing his friendship.
As Far as I Can See the Limelight Stays On (This Week’s Links)
Look at the screen. That is William Blake’s The Great Red Dragon and The Woman Clothed with the Sun. That is Gary Larson’s Cow Tools.
Do you see? Do you see what Ryan Flanders and his links has wrought?
Biographer and Comics Fandom Chronicler Bill Schelly Dies Unexpectedly at 67
Michael Dean outlines the life and accomplishments of one of comics’s preeminent biographers, Bill Schelly.
Trauma, Anxiety and History: Travis Dandro In Conversation With Pascal Girard
Cartoonist Pascal Girard spoke with cartoonist Travis Dandro about processing trauma, dealing with anxiety, and managing a full time life…and how all of those things came together for Dandro’s new memoir, King Of King Court.
In Praise Of Popnut Skrummies: An Elmo Conversation With Frank M. Young
Mark Newgarden and Frank M. Young discuss their love for Cecil Jensen’s Elmo, and the reason Young decided to make this unheralded classic available again via print on demand.
Dogface Has Its Day: The Success Of Brian Blomerth
Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day has quietly become one of the most beloved comics of the year, which is only the latest chapter in the cartoonist’s weird and delightful career. Brian Nicholson makes his way through all the purposeful deceit surrounding the cartoonist in our new profile.
“It Became An Obsession”: An Interview With Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm speaks with Alex Dueben about the difficulty of making graphic novel out of a conflict-free story where every reader knows the ending: Moonbound, the story of Apollo 11.
Without Even a Single Slice of Pizza to My Name (This Week’s Links)
The last time a Russian Minister tried to mess around with America’s favorite fictional characters, Jack Bauer got super frustrated. I’m just saying! Ryan Flanders has all the details, and many more, in his weekly news round-up!
Donald Rooum: April 20, 1928-August 31, 2019
In this obituary, Kent Worcester discusses Donald Rooum, who is best known for his comic strip “Wildcat,” as well as his numerous contributions to anarchist comics anthologies and publications.
