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.
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Best Comics
Contributors and friends share their favorite comics of the year. The best top ten lists on the internet.
TCJ 2018 Year in Review
Time to catch up on some of the best comics writing of the year.
“‘Best’ Is a Bullshit Word”: Phoebe Gloeckner on Editing The Best American Comics 2018
The eminently quotable (and phenomenally talented) artist, writer, teacher and, whether she claims it or not, critic, sits down with Sean T. Collins to talk about how she handled the selection process behind the most recent edition of Best American Comics.
Forgotten Friends of the Nib: Caricature & Victor Hugo’s Head
If French press cartoons are unashamedly rude, what’s at the heart of such a caustic culture? The answer can be found in a current Paris exhibition, Caricatures: Victor Hugo On Page One.
George Freeman
According to Fiffe, George Freeman’s got it all–but don’t let a blurb convince you. Fiffe’s got the man’s actual work here to make the case!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief (Part 2)
Our story begins with Ham Fisher and the birth of Joe Palooka.
Héctor German Oesterheld’s Contributions to Mort Cinder
While the construction of Mort Cinder has been noted to be a flexible and collaborative effort between Breccia and Oesterheld, there are distinct and recurrent motifs in it which suggests it was not put together for reasons of mere entertainment or with little forethought. If anything, there is a coherence and depth in its plotting which suggests a steady hand at the tiller.
Episode 34: Ben Passmore
On the penultimate episode, the BTTM FDRS creator discusses the impact of Prince of Cats, shelving a post-collegiate magnum opus, and when leather jackets and moshing came to hip-hop.
Bandy Designys: New French Comics Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
Matt Seneca returned from his French vacation with a stack of comics. I know they call them something different over there, but i’m not over there, am I? Let’s see what he thought!
Hubris and Chutzpah: How Li’l Abner Kayo’d Joe Palooka and Both Their Creators Came to Grief
The story of Al Capp and Ham Fisher, two cartooning geniuses, their rise to celebrity and their furious interactions with each other, is the stuff of epic adventure fiction,
but here, it is fact.
The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part Two: Elmo Without Elmo
The later years, when Elmo made way for Little Debbie.
Folded Limbs
Let’s look back with Frank Young, and then pay homage to the world’s largest independent media conglomerate (in terms of revenue).
The Enigma of Cecil Jensen, Part One: The Road to Elmo
An appreciation of the 1940s strip Elmo, which was both ahead of its time and behind the times—possessing the absurd cool of a Nathanael West or S. J. Perelman and droll ensemble comedy reminiscent of Thimble Theater.
