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“It’s Still Just Me, Good Ol’ Ariel”: A Conversation With Ariel Schrag
Noah Berlatsky sits down with Ariel Schrag, the prolific creator of comics, television shows and novels, for an expansive conversation about all the dang work, and the art that shows up at the end of it.
The Reveries of E.A. Bethea
E.A. Bethea’s comics read as a detailed, confessional fever dream.
Excerpt: The Water Spirit
An exclusive look at Alexander Utkin’s upcoming Water Spirit, Nobrow’s latest attempt to introduce new colors to the visual spectrum, via the delivery system of print media!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 4)
The Capp/Fisher feud heats up.
Supernatural Law Creator Batton Lash Dead at 65
Wolff & Byrd creator Batton Lash died Saturday at the age of 65 after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Though he was never a star of the comics mainstream, the announcement drew a surge of web posts from fans and independent comics creators who knew Lash as a friendly and supportive presence at comics Michael Dean | January 14, 2019
The Future Has No Time for the Past: A Long Discussion of Olivier Schrauwen’s “Parallel Lives”
Two minds forever voyaging through the new book by Olivier Schrauwen: artist and fiction.
Ellen Lindner: Day Five
Perfection cannot remain ignored for long, even if it’s just eyebrows we’re talking about. Friday is here, and so is Ellen Lindner!
“I’m Still in Art-Monster Mode”: A Conversation with Katie Fricas
Katie Fricas’s peculiar, underground-reminiscent work has appeared in The New York Times, PEN America, and The New Yorker. Here, she talks growing up in a military family, performing in front of crowds, and pigeons.
Ellen Lindner: Day Four
In today’s installment, Ellen embraces ritual to soothe her baseball woes, clears a deadline out of the way…and makes a giant life choice involving her hair color.
Rather Like Fairy Land Isn’t It
It’s Wednesday here at TCJ, probably means it’s Wednesday wherever you are: that’s how days work, most of the time. Today, we’ve got our last look back at 2018 before committing ourselves fully to 2019. It’s a special edition of our Retail Therapy column, with a whole mess of retailers swinging by to let us… Read more »
Ellen Lindner: Day Three
Opera, books, listening, Instagram. It couldn’t get more slice of life than it’s getting this Wednesday. A birthday approaches!
The Best Comics Of 2018: A Retail Perspective!
In our first Retail Therapy of 2019, we’re hearing from some of our favorite shopkeeps about what got them most excited to unlock the doors in 2018.
Ellen Lindner: Day Two
We all have our various ways to kill cubicle time when the work is slow to come. For example: Tea. On a Tuesday?
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 3)
The story continues with Al Capp and the birth of Li’l Abner.
Dawg, In Furs
It’s 2019, and you’ve arrived just in time for our first Cartoonist Diary of the year.
Ellen Lindner: Day One
Ellen faces the withdraw that follows binge-watching, grapples with…what is that, Hale & Hearty? No matter. A new Diary begins!
Hello, Culture Lovers! Stan the Man Raps with Marvel Maniacs at James Madison University
In March of 1978, Stan Lee sat on a panel at James Madison University’s Fine Arts Festival.
