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How To Build A Comics Festival: CXC, Year Three
What makes Cartoon Crossroads Columbus work.
The 2017 Doug Wright Award Winners
Rebecca Roher, Steve Wolfhard, Henriette Valium make it a year of first-time winners at 2017 Doug Wright Awards.
Satire, Business, and the AAEC 2016 Convention
A report from the sixtieth annual meeting of The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, held in Durham, North Carolina, during the strangest election year in US history.
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part IV
Then came the Fall. The startling, not to say stupefying, comics controversies from the final months of 2015. And finally: what have we learned?
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part III
We know what you did last summer. Plus Surprise Bonus Content—Tim O’Neil on the year in superhero comics.
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part II
Looking back at comics news from April through June. Who were we? What did we learn? And what could we forgive? Let’s find out together. For entertainment purposes only.
The TCJ 2015 Year-in-Review Spectacufuck: Part I
A year in comics now behind us. Who were we? What did we learn? And what could we forgive? Let’s find out together, month by month, day by day. For entertainment purposes only.
The Belgians Who Changed Comics
“The Golden Age of Belgian Comics” features a rare collection, on show in France for the first time ever. Their pages detail a comics revolution, the era when – led by Tintin – the ninth art forever changed leisure on the continent.
A Season at the Con
From Game of Thrones to Teen Wolf to Ramona Fradon. An artist and his daughter bound together by nerd obsessions explore the new Comic-Con.
Report from Minneapolis: Autoptic
The committee process.
Napoleon vs. Napoleon
Napoleon is one of history’s most satirized figures, the central target in a golden age of caricature. Now, with two shows in London and Paris focused on Napoleonic art, he reminds us that mockery’s price was often high.
Queers & Comics: The LGBTQ Cartoonists and Comics Conference
A comprehensive report of the events at the historic first Queers & Comics conference, where the crowds were sizeable, intergenerational, and international.
An Illustrated Report from the Queers & Comics Conference
The first conference in history devoted entirely to LGBT cartoonists was a very personal event.
Alt-Weekly Cartoonists Finally Get Their Day at Society of Illustrators
You didn’t buy an alt-weekly newspaper, much less hold on to it. You picked them up from a pile somewhere, read them or didn’t, and then threw them out. Some of these papers ran comic strips, but many didn’t. Some of these papers just ran comic strips without letting the artists know and didn’t pay them.
Travelogue 2015
James Romberger’s trip through Europe, encountering all manner of comics culture along the way.
Cartoons of Mass Destruction: The Whole Story Behind the Danish 12
In 2006, 12 Danish cartoonists controversially drew pictures of Muhammad at the urging of Flemming Rose, the culture editor of the weekly Jyllands-Posten. This news story from The Comics Journal #275 (April 2006) offers a multitude of perspectives — from cartoonists, Danes, Muslims, Danish Muslims — and is being rerun to help supply context for the Charles Hebdo killings.
Life at ELCAF 2014
On the floor at the third annual East London Comic and Arts Festival.
Creating a New Comics Show: DICE
Last year, I started my own comics show in Durham, North Carolina. Here’s what I learned.
How to Discourage Women from Cartooning
An uncomfortable letter stimulates thoughts on gender and cartooning.
A Landmark in Comics History: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum Opens in Columbus, Ohio
This year has seen no shortage of comics-related events and exhibitions, but the occasion most likely to have a long term impact is the opening of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University.
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival Ends
The founding partners of the influential and popular independent comics festival discuss—and dispute—the reasons for its sudden demise.
Don’t Make Me Come Back There: A Whinge
On comics complaints, women in comics, and various approaches to public engagement.
The New York Art Book Fair 2012 At PS1
A visit to the NY Art Book Fair complete with people watching, nostalgia and horse meat.
