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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.
The 2020 Report: Day Four– More Interviews!
Today, Abhay is talking to Laurenn McCubbin & Kim O’Connor, about what was wrong with the Warren Ellis Forum, what is wrong with The Comics Journal, and what steps the rest of us have to take, even after we burn those things down.
2020 Report Day: Day Three– Interviews!
Today, Abhay Khosla is speaking with Jhayne Faust Holmes, Janelle Asselin, and an anonymous third party about the So Many Of Us activist and support network, a brief contemporary history of the comic book community’s complete disinterest in dealing with its offenders, and what a future could and should look like.
The 2020 Report: Day Two
Today, Abhay is looking at Warren Ellis, the culture born, cultivated and promoted on his (in)famous message board, and the hardwork of enabling performed by his sycophantic, careerist supporters.
The 2020 Report
Abhay Khosla is here to catch you up what’s been happening in comics recently (and for years), what some guy just got exposed for (lots of stuff, for a long time), and how we think you should feel about it (not good!)
European Comics & COVID-19
While the impact of COVID-19 on the US comics scene has seen widespread coverage, what about the scene in countries with a financial infrastructure? Thanos Kyratzis takes a look at Greece and Italy.
The New Dynamics: Anarchy in the DM
Twenty-five years ago, DC Comics signed with Diamond Distributors. Eric Reynolds reported on a leaked memo.
COVID-19 & Comics – April 13th 2020
How is COVID-19 and attempts to contain it impacting comics makers, publishers and retailers? Our weekly update on that question is here.
