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The best comics of 2024, as chosen by TCJ contributors
What were the best comics of this past year? No idea, but here’s some stuff our contributors really liked.
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic: Incantations of the present day
In which the new illuminated manuscript on magic practice by Alan Moore & Steve Moore is considered, on top of the state of things.
Alan Moore’s endless (and long forgotten) story
Marc Sobel returns to TCJ with the 12th chapter of his Eisner-nominated book, “Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works” by Alan Moore.
Joyce Brabner, 1952-2024
Activist, author, and advocate Joyce Brabner passed away after a long battle with cancer on Aug. 2.
“I’ve Had The Life That I Wanted When I Was 10 Years Old”: A Conversation with Dave Gibbons
Jason Bergman sits down with the British comics superstar and co-creator of several very famous genre comics to discuss his recent autobiography.
Ian Gibson, 1946-2023
Remembering Ian Gibson, one the crucial early artists of 2000 AD and co-creator of one of the most beloved UK comics of that era, The Ballad of Halo Jones.
“I Was Always On The Weird End Of The Spectrum”: The Donald Simpson Interview
Cut class, tell the boss you’re sick, hand the kids an iPad – we’ve got an old-fashioned career-spanner here, as Jason Bergman sifts through a megatonnage of work with the one and only Donald Simpson.
Strong Men Also Cry: The Tom Strong Compendium
Revisiting one of the millennial artifacts of writer Alan Moore’s final foray into the superhero mainstream: Tom Strong, now reprinted as a single large softcover.
“My Imperative Was To Get My Family Through This”: Catching up with Stephen R. Bissette
Jason Bergman catches up with Stephen R. Bissette – writer, artist, critic, editor, publisher and educator, feeling a sense of vigor about the future.
A Very British Scandal – The Missing Writer of the Captain Britain Omnibus
Tom Shapira takes us back to an early moment in the career of Alan Moore, the man superhero comics can’t get over… and shows us some of the people who did.
An Appreciation of Kevin O’Neill, 1953-2022
David Roach looks back at the work of Kevin O’Neill, one of the most unique artistic voices in British comics, whose influence will forever be felt, even as his style remains impossible to imitate.
The Fallout of Dreams, the Demonstration of Shadows: Watchmen and the Atomic Zeitgeist of the ‘80s
When the war in Ukraine began, PhD student Evheny Osievsky was reading Watchmen in Kyiv. Watchmen, with all of its martial brinksmanship; its dreams of apocalypse. This article examines the end-of-days texture of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons/John Higgins classic.
Garry Leach: A Life in Comics
David Roach takes a look at the work of Garry Leach, one of the most influential British comics artists of the last 50 years, who passed away in March of 2022.
Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All: Ted McKeever, Pencil Head and Leaving Comics
An examination of Ted McKeever’s final narrative comic, a kiss-off to the comic book industry, with comparisons to other famous Fuck You features.
How Ayn Rand Influenced Comic Books
Echoes of the infamous author in the superhero comic book behemoths of the 1980s – satirized in Watchmen, and domesticated in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
“Providence Was Really Exhausting. Finishing It Felt Like Finishing College”: An Interview With Jacen Burrows
The artist behind Crossed, Punisher: Soviet and Providence speaks with Alex about how he ended up responsible for some of the most diabolically unsettling images of the last decade, and what it’s like to go from Alan Moore to Garth Ennis.
Their Other Last Hurrah – Cinema Purgatorio
Tom Shapira takes a look at the recently concluded series of comics by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill. No, not those. The other ones. Yeah, the ones from Avatar.
Come in from the Cold: Gou Tanabe’s At the Mountains of Madness and the Comics Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft
Tom Shapira runs through some of the many comics adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s writing with an aim towards crowning one with the title of Number One.
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest
Brian Nicholson takes a look at Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary of Gentlemen, whose recent conclusion reportedly serves as the conclusion of Moore’s career in comics as well.
Anything But Reality
How both George Herriman’s final Krazy Kat strips and the overpacked silliness of Mort Weisinger’s Silver Age Superman illustrate the true power of cartoon storytelling.
H.P. Moorecraft: On the Ending of Providence
The climax of the book is Alan Moore’s meta-meditation on the shape and nature of his comics career, written as he prepares to leave the medium.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (9/14/16 – Alchemical Salon)
Books! Words! Pictures! All formats! A bonanza of hits! The blockbuster season is here!
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/11/16 – Crashing Headlong Into the Limits of My Charisma
Joe is 1. back from vacation and 2. sick, but we trust the orgonic radiance of comics will restore his vim before midnight falls on the country hills.
From Watchmen to Orfani: A Colorists’ Roundtable
Some of the most important colorists from around the world gather to talk about the pros and cons of their job, the best and worst ways to color, the effects of new digital tools, and oh yes, how much they get paid.
