Travelogue 2015
James Romberger’s trip through Europe, encountering all manner of comics culture along the way.
News
Articles
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.
SDCC 12: Graphic Novels: The Bookstore Crowd Panel
Tom Spurgeon moderates Kate Beaton, Jason Shiga, Brecht Evens, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer and Matthew Holm, and Nate Powell.
MoCCA Gets a New Lease on Life at Society of Illustrators
Everything that was MoCCA — its collection, its educational programming, its logo, its heavily attended annual festival — has been subsumed, and will reportedly continue, under the auspices of the Society of Illustrators.
SDCC12: Comics and Journalism in a New Era
PW Comics World co-editor Calvin Reid talks to Susie Cagle, Andy Warner, Stan Mack, Ed Piskor, Dan Carino, and Chris Butcher about using the comics medium for journalism. Filmed by Justin Bloch and David McCloud.
MoCCA Aims for Improved Location: Closure Not Permanent
A report on the sudden news.
Chicago: Comics on the Make
“Comics: Philosophy & Practice” gathered seventeen luminaries of the medium to discuss what it all means.
Lichtenstein and the Comics in Chicago
Neal Adams, Ivan Brunetti, Geof Darrow, and J.J. Sedelmaier discuss comics at the Art Institute of Chicago.
An Interview with MoCCA Founder Lawrence Klein
How the museum has been able to survive, why building a permanent collect has not been a high priority, and why Klein left the museum and New York.
State of the Art Museum: What MoCCA Has Accomplished and Failed to Accomplish After Ten Years
For better or worse, MoCCA is the high-water mark for the level of respectability that comic art has been able to carve out for itself in its home town.
Angoulême 2012: Aftermath
One of the best festivals of the past decade. Of course, some problems persist.
Angoulême 2012: Saturday
The most eloquently curated comics show I’ve seen since the fantastic Masters of European Comics in 2001.
Angoulême 2012: Friday
The Art Spiegelman retrospective in the Castro building is amazing.
Introducing The Small Press Expo Collection
A brief interview with Warren Bernard on the new project with The Library of Congress, which will formally archive both the festival itself and many of the comics it annually features.
SDCC 2011: Art of the Graphic Novel Panel
Cartoonists including Chester Brown, Seymour Chwast, Eric Drooker, Joyce Farmer, and Craig Thompson talk about the graphic novel medium.
SDCC 2011: Page One Panel
Douglas Wolk moderates Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Jen Van Meter (Hopeless Savages) and Greg Rucka (Stumptown) as they talk about first pages of comics. Filmed by Justin Bloch.
SDCC 2011: Hernandez Bros. Spotlight Panel
Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez talk about Love & Rockets and Citizen Rex; moderated by Kristy Valenti.
