Glynnis Fawkes: Day One
You may think you’ve heard every excuse children use to get out of going to school, but something tells me that the one the Fawkes kids pulled off is gonna prove you wrong.
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Dammit Jim, I’m a Comics Retailer, Not a Doctor!
In the inaugural edition of our new op ed column, we’re sharing the unedited version of a pamphlet given out this week at the annual ComicsPro meeting between publisher and comic shop retailers in Charlotte, NC.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 9)
Final thoughts on what was really behind the feud between Al Capp and Ham Fisher.
Max Court
Today at TCJ, we’re sharing a look at one of Nobrow’s most recent stabs at giving you feelings. It’s called Through A Life, and it’s by Tom Haugomat. They had this to say about it: This powerfully silent graphic novel follows the saga of a boy who grows up to be an astronaut, just like… Read more »
Excerpt: Through A Life
Thanks to Nobrow, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Through A Life, there recently released graphic novel by Tom Haugomat. Here’s what they had to say about what it’s all about: This powerfully silent graphic novel follows the saga of a boy who grows up to be an astronaut, just like he always wanted, until… Read more »
Comics in Drawers
You really can find comics just about anywhere, although most people would have left the comics in this column behind. Thankfully, Marc Sobel has a different plan in mind.
Tomi Ungerer: 1931-2019
He was an artistic force of nature for more than sixty years — a cartoonist, a children’s book author, a painter, a writer, a sculptor, a sexual provocateur, a political dissident, and more.
“I Was Terrified – And Therefore, I Accepted”: An Interview with José Hernández
Alex Dueben spoke with award-winning Mexican cartoonist José Hernández about the recent US release of his Che Guevara graphic biography, and why the subject remains such a fertile one for artists and readers around the world.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 8)
Previously, the introduction, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and part seven of our story. VII. The Sordid End of Al Capp BUT CAPP WAS NOT FINISHED. In the fall of 1956, eight months after Fisher’s suicide, Al Capp took up the question that the Fisher episode had left hanging… Read more »
Fuzz & Pluck creator Ted Stearn Dead at 57
Ted Stearn, one of the funniest cartoonists in alternative comics and alternative animation, died on February 1.
David Mazzucchelli Remembers Ted Stearn
David Mazzucchelli’s appreciation for Ted Stearn’s talents as an artist, animator, and cartoonist.
RIP Alex Barbier, Poète Maudit
On January 29, a storm called Gabriel whipped the whole of France with eighty-mile-an-hour winds. Up on the Swiss border, citizens in snowbound Saint-Claude were hunkered down. But just before 8:30 pm, one group of neighbors caught a whiff of smoke in their building. They ran to check its attic and basement, only to see… Read more »
A Conversation with Andrea Leigh Shockling about Subjective Line Weight
While Andrea Leigh Shockling is preparing to launch her newest comics projects, she took the time to unpack the nature of Subjective Line Weight, her collaborative comics project exploring the things that go unsaid about thoughts and bodies.
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 7)
The tragic ending of Ham Fisher
