TCJ Archive
The Comics Journal No. 307, Winter-Spring 2021
Gary Groth interviews Cathy Malkasian (Eartha), the PBS/Nickelodeon animation director (Curious George, The Wild Thornberrys) turned graphic novelist, about her first middle-grade GN, NoBody Likes You, Greta Grump. MLK graphic biographer Ho Che Anderson shares his animation storyboards; Anya Davidson talks to Sally Cruikshank about an underground comix-influenced career that includes feature film credits and Sesame Street. Plus: an unpublished Ben Sears (Midnight Gospel) comic; Jem and the Holograms creator Christy Marx talks about working in both comics and animation; sketchbook pages by Vanesa Del Rey (Black Widow), an interview with Amazon warehouse worker-turned-cartoonist Ness Garza; Paul Karasik’s essay on an unseen gem, and much more.
Blood and Thunder (6)
Taneka Stotts, Amy Lockhart, Alex Schubert, Leigh Luna, Robert Goodin, Levon Jihanian, Lizz Hickey
From the Trenches (10)
Dinosaurs, Spaceships, Barbarians, Jem and a Green Rabbit
Christy Marx
Interview (20)
Cathy Malkasian
Interviewed by Gary Groth
Police Reform, The National Film Board of Canada and My New Career (120)
Ho Che Anderson
Interview (128)
Sally Cruikshank
Interviewed by Anya Davidson
Comic (140)
My First Big Animation Job
Ben Sears
Sketchbook (144)
Vanesa R. Del Rey
Reconsidering the Canon (152)
Underworld by Kaz
Adam Waytz
Fair Warning (158)
Ness Garza
Interviewed by RJ Casey
“Die, Frogs!”: The Lost Comics of James Kugler (178)
By Paul Karasik
Fan Mail (222)
Garfield
Erin Whitehead