A Cartoonist’s Diary
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Joana Mosi: Day three
This week the Comics Journal is pleased to bring you a collection of diary strips from Portuguese cartoonist Joana Mosi, author of The Mongoose.
Joana Mosi: Day two
This week the Comics Journal is pleased to bring you a collection of diary strips from Portuguese cartoonist Joana Mosi, author of The Mongoose.
Joana Mosi: Day one
This week the Comics Journal is pleased to bring you a collection of diary strips from Portuguese cartoonist Joana Mosi, author of The Mongoose.
Angela Fanche Goes To Angoulême: Day Five- Epilogue
Cartoonist and Bernadette editor Angela Fanche, went to Angoulême- you can wave from the train platform, but she won’t see you.
Angela Fanche Goes To Angoulême: Day Four-THE FINAL DAY
Cartoonist and Bernadette editor Angela Fanche, went to Angoulême- if you’re not going to finish that Spiced Apple Waterloo, can I have it?
Angela Fanche Goes To Angoulême: Day Three
Cartoonist and Bernadette editor Angela Fanche, went to Angoulême, now finish your breakfast, you’re going to be late for school.
Angela Fanche Goes To Angoulême: Day Two
Cartoonist and Bernadette editor Angela Fanche, went to Angoulême, get out of her way!
Jason Novak: Day Five
It’s Friday, and for Jason’s final TCJ installment, the subject is RAGE. Repressed rage, silent rage, grocery store rage, impatience-driven rage – they all make an appearance! Step on in… it’s Diary time!
Jason Novak: Day Four
One way to grapple with parental issues? Put them down on pen and paper – and if you’re a creative type, make it drawing. Today, Jason tackles that theory with someone who has put it to practice!
Jason Novak: Day Three
Today we talk about baby Hitler in Napoleon’s cradle, and fear! Wait, who is today’s guest anyway?
Jason Novak: Day Two
You might think you know what dedication looks like. But I ask you this: have you ever seen a crow try to eat a squirrel?
André Valente: Day Five
André Valente hits the street of Angoulême during the weeks of the year when it isn’t packed full of comics to see what kind of memories he can track down. (The answer is quite a few!)
André Valente: Day Four
You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and sometimes, your first impression includes a phrase that you may never be able to recover from. André Valente presents: A Cautionary Tale!
André Valente: Day Three
André Valente confronts the question of Chris Ware. No, not the qualitative question! The question of size: does it matter?
André Valente: Day One
André Valente begins his week of diaries to attention, by answering the big linguistic questions…and chasing around the visual concept of what it would look like if Andre The Giant and Mandy Patinkin got together and had a couple of babies.
Jennifer Hayden: Day Four
On staring into black glass in a room of new silence.
Jennifer Hayden: Day Three
A drive to Princeton, a whale of a surprise, and books, books, books: today’s Cartoonist’s Diary has it all. Deadlines are in the rearview for Jennifer Hayden!
Jennifer Hayden: Day Two
A little bit of progress counts as progress: don’t let anybody put your success on a scale! Jennifer Hayden gets it, in today’s Cartoonist’s Diary!
Jennifer Hayden: Day One
There’s probably no more Cartoonist’s Diary then a Diary that includes good food, deadlines, dreams, frustrating emails and good bookstores: Jennifer Hayden, starting it off correctly!
MK Reed: Day Five
Good boy, Hank.
MK Reed: Day Four
Scenes from the early life of Hank, as MK Reed’s diary week continues.
MK Reed: Day Three
Garden work; a helpful pet; a fancy dress; trophies awarded before a thousand eyes in an empty room.
MK Reed: Day Two
Today, MK and her sibling try to find some sense of normalcy in the face of 2020’s various awfulness by heading out to the farm!


