It would be fair to wonder if, with the advent of the Hilda Netflix series, Luke Pearson might lose a step, stretched thin among projects (less than half the episodes are adapted from the books), but no. Hilda and the Mountain King is maybe less emotionally intense than its predecessor, Hilda and the Stone Forest,… Read more »
Temperament likely dictates your reaction to dream stories. Someone with a rich and rewarding dream life may find them fascinating and meaningful – people with silly or strange dreams may find little purchase. The dreams in fiction so rarely resemble any dreams I have personally experienced that at times the device seems little more than… Read more »
Cartoonist Ben Passmore met up with Dr. Ryan Holmberg and Ron Wimberly to talk about Yoshitoshi, at a recent exhibition of work by the influential Japanese artist.
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!
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.
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.
Although I am an avid lover of humor, sci-fi and horror comics, I had not delved into romance until recently (smut, its transgressive step-sibling, is another matter, and a topic for a different day.) Tasked with drawing a weird love story for an upcoming anthology, I realized how little I had read in the genre,… Read more »
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!
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”!
There is something wrong with the corn. The small patch outside of Jeremiah’s sparse house, next to an empty wreck of ground where another house once stood, is where he spends his days: he rushes out to them in the mornings, lays there throughout the day, staring up at the empty sky until dark sometimes.… Read more »
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!
In this excerpt from TCJ #304, Hanselmann talks about Gretzkys, the relationship between autobiography and fiction, and selling stuffed animals.
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 first book collection of one of the premiere creators of the Seattle comics scene, featuring his trademark wildly detailed, scabby drawings.
In her new collection of autobio comics, Persephone’s Garden, Glynnis Fawkes frequently portrays her kids as whiny brats, dissatisfied with everything. They travel to Israel and Greece, and all the kids want to do is stay home. She tries to get them to museums, and they complain and bicker, eventually sitting in the corner and… Read more »
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.
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 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!
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.
Frank Santoro sits down with Caitlin McGurk to talk in detail about Pittsburgh, his most widely anticipated release from New York Review Comics.
With The Envious Siblings, Landis Blair (The Hunting Accident) becomes something like the Greta Van Fleet to Edward Gorey’s Led Zeppelin. The book, a collection of illustrated verse, is a bungled homage to a past master, without the deftness or inventiveness to take it beyond imitation. Blair presents maimings and killings of various sorts, rendered… Read more »
Bill Schelly’s collaborators, compatriots and friends describe what it was like working with him, reading with him, and sharing his friendship.
Michael DeForge’s new book Stunt has the squat distended proportions of a bookmark or Chick tract. Considerably wider than it is tall, the physically fit body of its stuntman protagonist has to contort himself to fit inside. Largely told in two-panel pages, the few pages that consist of a single image feel like pressed-down parodies… Read more »
