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No Sense Of Duty, No Sense Of Destiny – This Week’s Links

Get on the hotline to news! 1-900-TCJ-NEWS, $2.00 for the first minute, $0.45 each additional minute.

Clark Burscough | August 12, 2022

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All Those Oh-So-Nears – This Week’s Links

There’s only one way to resolve the ongoing issues at Warner Bros. I am going to buy Superman and rename him Mr. Toilet.

Clark Burscough | August 5, 2022

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Halcyonity Is Relative – This Week’s Links

Whew, it’s too sunny out for news! (A cartoon news imp appears.) “Oh-ho, well then, I will erase all news from the world forever.” Nooo, Mr. News, I didn’t mean it!! “Well, okay…”

Clark Burscough | July 29, 2022

Time for Jumpin’ Overboard – This Week’s Links

I don’t know about you, but I am keeping cool today! It turns out you can access the internet from inside an enormous block of ice. They told me I was being sealed in here for my crimes… well who’s laughing now?

Clark Burscough | July 22, 2022

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No Stopping What Can’t Be Stopped – This Week’s Links

If I gave you a gift called news… would you take it?

Clark Burscough | July 15, 2022

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The Demon That You’re Stuck With – This Week’s Links

Sipping hard from a beer garden whisky sour as news approaches from across the parish.

Clark Burscough | July 8, 2022

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In A River Of Trouble – This Week’s Links

I may not be a knight of arts and letters, but I’d make one hell of a squire of article descriptions. Point me at a windmill!

Clark Burscough | July 1, 2022

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Illuminate the Main Streets – This Week’s Links

Save us, news! Throw your light down the halls of ignorance! If I am not linked I have only these walls! Ah! News!

Clark Burscough | June 24, 2022

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Followers Of Worth And Knowledge – This Week’s Links

Waking up in a pool of sweat and one word glistens in the thick, humid air: NEWSLINKS.

Clark Burscough | June 17, 2022

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Flunkin’ And Bunkin’ School – This Week’s Links

What if… I GOT TIRED OF NEWS. I drop to the floor. But then I hear your claps, your cheers… I rise to my feet… one hand to my ear…

Clark Burscough | June 10, 2022

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A Brief Interview With United Workers of Seven Seas

Ian Thomas offers this brief chat with United Workers of Seven Seas, a group of workers endeavoring to unionize the popular manga-in-English publisher.

Ian Thomas | June 10, 2022

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Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline – This Week’s Links

It’s vacation season! For you, NOT for the links. Get ready to pour this smoothie of blended information directly into your brain.

Clark Burscough | June 3, 2022

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Suburban Trees, Suburban Speed – This Week’s Links

Further brief relief from the mind’s ache of the everyday.

Clark Burscough | May 27, 2022

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Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ – This Week’s Links

Ah, news, the song of– wait, did we get an Eisner nomination? For BEST ARTICLE DESCRIPTIONS?! Oh my gosh, I am so honored! There’s no way Karl Ove Knausgård of ComicBook dot com can beat me!

Clark Burscough | May 20, 2022

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Photos from the 42nd Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and Los Bros at the 2022 Latino Comics Expo

On the West Coast, comics creators are recharged and attending in-person events again. Christopher Diaz was there to capture candid shots of the Hernandez brothers, R. Kikuo Johnson, Jordan Crane and more for TCJ!

Chris Anthony Diaz | May 17, 2022

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Holding Up Office Lights – This Week’s Links

Hmm, news. Don’t know what to make of it anymore. Used to be you’d glance at a paper on the stands, raise an eyebrow. Now it’s all modems. The weather…

Clark Burscough | May 13, 2022

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A Beginning Is A Very Delicate Time – This Week’s Links

“Hey everybody! Are you ready to talk about comics this week?!” The festival crowd masses forward and launches an enormous wooden plank directly at my head. I see Iron Man inside the sky.

Clark Burscough | May 6, 2022

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I Put Away Childish Things – This Week’s Links

The other week I learned my four-year old nephew has begun making little zines… laughing in genetic destiny.

Clark Burscough | April 29, 2022

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Constant Chill, Deep Inside – This Week’s Links

Atop a hill enveloped in a blazing sunset, the children play.

Clark Burscough | April 22, 2022

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You Can Tell Me, I’m A Doctor – This Week’s Links

I can’t believe I have to set foot in a church this weekend after looking at those Squeak the Mouse pages… but I have faith. Faith that these links will purify this fallen world!

Clark Burscough | April 15, 2022

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I Like A Manifesto, Put It To The Test-O – This Week’s Links

You got it, Swee’Pea – it’s the untouchable report from the world.

Clark Burscough | April 8, 2022

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Sufferin’ Succotash – This Week’s Links

There is no news today; instead, this post is a map to hidden treasure. Ha ha, April Fool’s! The treasure is inside all of us who share in the miracle of hyperlinks.

Clark Burscough | April 1, 2022

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This Amoeba’s Got A Mind Of Its Own – This Week’s Links

Reticence is nothing to the flying hand of news, and here is where it is caught.

Clark Burscough | March 25, 2022

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Friday Night, Saturday Morning – This Week’s Links

Great news, I just won the Paresseux d’Or at Angoulême for best marginal contribution to a column about comic books! I’d like to thank Clark, Gary Groth, the ghost of Coulton Waugh, and all the teachers who did not wake me in homeroom. Grazie, amici!!

Clark Burscough | March 18, 2022

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