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“If I Can Inspire Others To Do This Kind Of Thing, That Would Be Amazing”: A Conversation About Koyama Provides
After closing Koyama Press at the beginning of 2021, Annie Koyama turned her energies towards Koyama Provides, an ongoing series of financial grants for cartoonists, comics makers and other artistic ventures. We caught up with her about the project’s first year and the motives behind it.
We’ll Take A Cup O’ Kindness – This Week’s Links
No— no, I’m glad about the first snowfall of the season. More time to read the links, right? Ha ha, no, it’ll melt, I’ll just let it…
Fantastic Ideas For A Fantastic World – This Week’s Links
My god, the madmen did it… they’ve closed TCJ! For this year, that is…
Benefits Of A Classical Education – This Week’s Links
Wow, there really is only one more week ‘till Christmas. I ought to buy edible gifts tomorrow; there’s probably still food left… you know what’s REALLY nourishing, though?
Very Big In Sheboygan – This Week’s Links
Leaving, moving, selling, getting bought – that’s right, another week in comics.
Me I Want A Hula Hoop – This Week’s Links
What a spread of links! I bet you thought the feasting was over; you fool… you fool!
A Wrenched Virile Lore – This Week’s Links
Did you know Clark’s birthday is coming up? Happy birthday! There will be no column next week because the Americans are doing something with food.
Roadside Picnic – This Week’s Links
Your local food court may be abandoned, littered with the debris of a departed era, but we have not abandoned: the links!
November Rain – This Week’s Links
Nobody is ever going to fix my roof; water is just going to keep dripping in until the rainy season passes. Luckily, the supply chain has not disrupted the delivery of these links – digital insulation to warm your soul.
An Intellectual Carrot – This Week’s Links
The wind is threatening to blow the walls off my building right now, but nothing stops the news! Join us in our affront to nature by clicking these links.
Comics and Revolutions: A Report from the Beirut Comic Art Festival
Eszter reports back from Beirut, with a look at the variety of comics, aesthetic concerns, philosophical questions and political grapplings that took place at The Beirut Comic Art Festival, which took place earlier this month.
I Don’t Like The Sound Of Them Apples – This Week’s Links
“I can’t think of a hotter set of links than this.” -Scott Hott, World’s Hottest
From My Laboratory In The Castle East – This Week’s Links
Oh my soul! That is a lot of links!!
Journey Into Marvel/Disney’s Copyright Wars
Michael Dean reports on the recent legal efforts of individuals, heirs and estates to pursue copyright terminations for Marvel superhero characters, and share in the mammoth profits generated by the properties those creators made possible.
Fresh Air: Comics in Dialogue at the Arab Comics Initiative
Comics maker, academic and convention curator Lina Ghaibeh speaks with TCJ about how political upheaval, COVID-19 and the ongoing impact of the devastating Port of Beirut explosion in 2020 has failed to stop the Arab Comics Initiative upcoming festival, which opens in Beirut this week.
Trouble Every Day – This Week’s Links
These robots are sad about the crypto economy. But you will be happy when you see all the news! I mean, it’s not happy news, really… but you’ll be happy it’s there.
More and More Comic Books is the Point: Small-Press Publishers and Lunar Distribution, a Roundtable
RJ Casey sits down with Lunar Distribution co-owner Christina Merkler and the principals of three small-press comic book publishers that have recently inked distribution deals with Lunar, for the purposes of surveying the new retail landscape of 2021.
My, My, My, My, My, What A Mess – This Week’s Links
That’s right: there’s news this week about Spawn! There’s also a lot of comics news that isn’t about Spawn, sure. But how could we neglect updating you about Spawn related developments? Come on inside and get you some for yourself!
Born Slippy – This Weeks Links
You walk through the streets, confident–but do they know something you don’t? Their faces seem writ with knowledge, their eyes, round with whimsy. Oh no: you haven’t read your weekly Clark yet! How will you keep up in this Golden Age of Sequential Art, without his trusty hand to guide you towards the last week that comics saw? Never fear, friend. His hand is reaching out. Won’t you take it?
Trip Report – Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now
Artist and educator Anya Davidson visits a new exhibition of Chicago cartoonists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, spanning over half a century of history. Features dozens of pictures, an interview with co-curator Dan Nadel, and a visit to an alternative exhibition at the DIY space Gridsport.
The 2020 Report: Day Seven – Finale
Abhay concludes his series on sexual harassment in comics, examines his personal history writing about these subjects, considers some of the possible ways that things can and are changing for the better, and then walks out of the building, with the microphone left dead on the stage behind him.
The 2020 Report: Day Six
Today, Abhay is looking at two men with a history of allegations going back multiple years: Charles Brownstein & Scott Allie. What changed in 2020?
The 2020 Report: Day Five
Today, Abhay is looking the stories surrounding Jason Latour, Scott Lobdell and others, as well as the convention bar scene that often surrounds these stories.
