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.
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 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.
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.
The committee process.
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.
A comprehensive report of the events at the historic first Queers & Comics conference, where the crowds were sizeable, intergenerational, and international.
The first conference in history devoted entirely to LGBT cartoonists was a very personal event.
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.
James Romberger’s trip through Europe, encountering all manner of comics culture along the way.
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.
On the floor at the third annual East London Comic and Arts Festival.
Last year, I started my own comics show in Durham, North Carolina. Here’s what I learned.
An uncomfortable letter stimulates thoughts on gender and cartooning.
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 founding partners of the influential and popular independent comics festival discuss—and dispute—the reasons for its sudden demise.
On comics complaints, women in comics, and various approaches to public engagement.
A visit to the NY Art Book Fair complete with people watching, nostalgia and horse meat.
Tom Spurgeon moderates Kate Beaton, Jason Shiga, Brecht Evens, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer and Matthew Holm, and Nate Powell.
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.
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.
A report on the sudden news.
“Comics: Philosophy & Practice” gathered seventeen luminaries of the medium to discuss what it all means.
Neal Adams, Ivan Brunetti, Geof Darrow, and J.J. Sedelmaier discuss comics at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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.