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The Joe Matt InterviewIn this extensive interview from The Comics Journal #183 (January 1996), Christopher Brayshaw speaks with the cartoonist Joe Matt (1963-2023)...
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Seth on Joe Matt, 1995In this brief interview from The Comics Journal #183 (January 1996), Christopher Brayshaw speaks to the cartoonist Seth about Joe Matt....
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“There’s A Different Kind Of Energy Around You And Your Work. And That’s Just Life”: Jillian Tamaki at Mid-CareerIn 2020, I selected Jillian Tamaki as the very best comics artist of the last decade . Boundless (Drawn & Quarterly, 2017) and...
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Trying To Ice-Skate Uphill – This Week’s LinksIt is, let’s say, interesting, to be writing on comics at a relative remove, in this decade, and so be able to augur patterns in the entrails of...
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“This Is Where We Make Things Right”: A Report from SPX 2023As it has almost every year since 1994, this past weekend saw the return of the Small Press Expo to Bethesda, Maryland. I spent the weekend...
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Box Brown and The He-Man EffectBrian “Box” Brown , a specialist in biographical comics in recent years, has a new book out from First Second about the capitalistic,...
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Arrivals and Departures – September 2023Hi. Hello. This is my new monthly column focused on minicomics, zines, self-published and micropress work. Fingers crossed that I’ll be covering...
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RoamingConnection. We all crave it. To people, places and things. When we have it, it’s magic. When we don’t, it’s misery. How these connections are...
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“I Kind Of Have My Next Three Years Fully Planned”: An Interview with Caroline CashCaroline Cash. Photo taken by Hannah Martin at Rec Room in Charleston, SC. Unlike the characters in her comics, who seem to have a hard...
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Den Vol. 1: NeverwhereWelcome to uncertain ground. When Richard Corben sidled into American comics' mainstream after decades of Adults Only work and self-publication,...
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A Closed Door, Slightly Ajar – This Week’s LinksWe’re in for a busy weekend of comics events, and, coming from a relatively tiny country, that you can drive across in a matter of hours, I have...
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Murderers’ Row: Marc SilvestriWith deepest gratitude to Claire Napier, without whose friendship this essay could not exist. * * * As I wandered along this distant...
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Mr. BoopThis deluxe hardback collects Alec Robbins' webcomic, published online in 2020, with a video finale released on the first day of 2021. Typically...
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Soldier Dream: Saint SeiyaAll art in this article by Masami Kurumada from Knights of the Zodiac (Saint Seiya) as presented on the Shonen Jump mobile app. English...
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Bill Griffith on Love, Loss and the Lives of Ernie Bushmiller and Diane NoominAn image of a perfect world. The imaginary Bushmiller Museum of Comic Art from Bill Griffith's Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller,...
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Droppin’ Plates – This Week’s LinksA rare quiet week in terms of industry-shaking news for the comics-mill, barring any classic dumping of big stories on a Friday, as the sleepy...
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Eden III saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Dark Souls , or Elden Ring , or any number of terribly immersive RPGs that seem to be made of...
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The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World – Part OneGary Panter's poster for the original 1981 Pee-wee Herman stage show in Los Angeles. The stage show would evolve into a franchise that saw the...
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The Dying of the Light: My Grandmother, Dementia, Time in the Comic Strip, and Roses in December by Tom Batiuk and Chuck AyersI don’t have children, so I’ve never had the experience of teaching them and reinforcing lessons. But I have had experience with relatives with...
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CartoonshowDerek Ballard has, as the bio in this new book reminds us, has worked on a few popular and/or acclaimed animated shows, most notably Adventure...
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“A Close Approximation To The Way That They’re Thinking”: Talking Lettering with Dean SudarskyDean Sudarsky has worked in several capacities inside of comics—a former Fantagraphics intern, a 2016 Center for Cartoon Studies...
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Natural’s Not In It – This Week’s LinksI spent a tense morning earlier this week watching live coverage of India successfully delivering a rover to an unexplored area on the surface...
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I Never Found YouComics abound in maladjusted weirdos - but then, so do books, movies, music, the government... Maybe better to say maladjusted weirdos are a...
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A Boy’s Life[A] reader’s attention isolates some minimal segments... like elemental particles making up the work’s nucleus, around which all the rest...
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Escape from the Great American NovelIs it trite to say that A Lot Was Happening during the peak years of the COVID-19 pandemic? Maybe so (definitely so), but it was an especially...
