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R.I.P. Jim Shooter
As you probably have already heard former Marvel Editor-in Chief Jim Shooter has died at the age of 73 after a long battle with esophageal cancer. As the head of Marvel Comics during one of its largest and most significant periods of growth, Shooter was a controversial figure to put it mildly, one who was… Read more »
RIP Jackson ‘Butch’ Guice, June 27, 1961-May 1, 2025
Andrew Farago remembers the late comic book artist, who died on May 1.
Kent Worcester: ‘If they need me, they can find me in the twentieth century’
20th Century Man, Kent Worcester, talks the past, the present and The Punisher.
Krakoa is for all mutants: How the X-Men might have saved my mental health
Jacob Walhout looks at the not-so-long-ago Krakoan X-Men saga and details his own personal connection to it. Also: A TCJ editor learns the word “requel.”
‘I’ve always worn cute as a badge of honor’: The Jay Fosgitt interview
The Bodie Troll cartoonist talks about his career, working on My Little Pony and Marvel Comics, and the aesthetics of cute.
The Rashōmon of Bill Jemas: Four Portraits of a Marvel Age – The Comics Journal #310 Preview
Zach Rabiroff spoke to Bill Jemas, Tom Brevoort, Brian Michael Bendis, Ralph Macchio and others about Jemas’ executive tenures at Marvel. Rabiroff covers “The Brick,” the Ultimates line, Trouble, the tenor of the office politics, licensing deals run amok and much more.
Peter B. Gillis, 1952-2024
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed comic book writer Peter Benno Gillis passed away in the company of friends and family in upstate New York on June 20, 2024, after a series of medical issues that kept him in and out of hospitals over the past several years.
Logan’s Run: Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of the Wolverine
Who really did create Wolverine? And just as importantly, why should any of the rest of us care?
An Interview with John Romita by Tom Spurgeon
In this 2003 interview, Tom Spurgeon interviews John Romita, who is best known for his 1960s run on The Amazing Spider-Man.
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
Matt Seneca read so many comics that a capsule column was demanded. After all, if you can’t put wordless NYRC books next to Ben Grimm, where will your Yokoyama references find a home?
“Nobody Gets Into Comics to Get Rich”: Joe Quesada on Movies, Marvel, and the Future of Comics
Former Marvel head honcho & inveterate Batman illustrator Joe Quesada is neck deep in another dream career: movie director. In addition to talking about his short film FLY, he talks to us about times he wishes he hadn’t talked to the press, and questions why so many in the comics industry always seem obsessed with the comics industry ending.
“The Closer They Come To Being Finished The More Compromised They Become”: An Interview with Duncan Fegredo
In this sprawling conversation, artist Duncan Fegredo describes his early work in British comics, the beginnings of his American career at Vertigo with Peter Milligan, and what it was like to take over the reins of Hellboy.
“We All Are Frustrated Artists”: An Interview With David F. Walker
It’s time to catch up with Eisner-winning comics writer David F. Walker, whose work encompasses new DC superheroes, classic Marvel team-ups, Shaft, successful crowdfunding campaigns, and a fascination with auteurs.
“But You Get Up Again. And Then You Get Up Again. And Again.”: The Liam Sharp Interview
In this extensive interview, cartoonist, creator and innovator Liam Sharp discusses his sprawling career drawing superheroes, creating businesses, writing novels, supporting a family, embracing the struggle, representing his hometown, and much, much more. Yes, more than that.
“Are You Glad You Did It?”: An Interview with Douglas Wolk
Now that he’s on the other side of reading every single Marvel comic ever published, Douglas Wolk is catching up with Laura Hudson on whether that was (or was not) a good idea, what sort of lessons that etched into his subculture, and laying down some dogma for future cultural archaeologists to grapple with.
How Ernest Hemingway Provided Inspiration for the Darkest Spider-Man Story: ‘Kraven’s Last Hunt’
J.M. DeMatteis talks about the real life inspiration behind the influential and shocking conclusion of Kraven’s Last Hunt: the violent death of Ernest Hemingway.
“It Is Rare For Them Not To All Run Together In My Mind, Assuming I Recall Them At All”: The Stuart Immonen Comics Journal Interview
An expansive conversation with Stuart Immonen, whose artistic output reflects his interests: diverse, dynamic and curious. Here, he talks with Alex Dueben about his self-published work (labeled “too serious” by the biter class) and what the “Marvel method” looks like these days. Reminder: he’s not retired!
True Belief in Stan Lee
The latest Stan Lee book is bad, that’s no surprise. But how bad is it? Helen Chazan is here to make the case that it might be the worst one yet.
“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.
Excerpt: “Hemingway in Comics”
A series of TCJ articles on Ernest Hemingway’s comic book appearances became a book deal, and that book deal has resulted in a book, which now appears back here, as an excerpt: it’s the circle of (promotional) life.
Trapped in Hell with the New Mutants
Before they appeared in cinema to the acclaim of none and an audience in love with risk, The New Mutants appeared in a series of relatively well loved Marvel Comics in the 1980s: but you already knew that, didn’t you? Or maybe, you just thought you did…
Back in USSR – Garth Ennis’ Soviet Tales
Tom Shapira is pitting two recent war comics from Garth Ennis (Punisher: Soviet and Sara) to see which one is the best. So it’s a war between war comics? You got it!
1970 Joe Sinnott Interview
In this 1970 interview, a 15 year old Gary Groth and co. talk to Marvel Comics inker Joe Sinnott about the Comics Code, the ACBA, Kirby, and more.
Joe Sinnott: 1926-2020
The legendary inker, who helped define the look of many of Marvel’s most influential comics, has passed away.
