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An Excerpt from The Comics Journal #309: Annie Koyama Never PlansAnnie Koyama in 2018. The two qualities that the best publishers require are taste and the willingness to take risks — and I would throw in...
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The Ink Farm Jam Comic: Day 3The Ink Farm is a place in Augusta, Kentucky. It was founded by the artists Carol Tyler and Justin Green (1945-2022), in the hopes of...
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JHU Comic BooksEven seasoned New Yorkers may not often give much thought to Staten Island, that least-loved borough to the south of Manhattan. But in a...
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Life of Che: An Impressionistic Biography & Evita, the Life and Work of Eva PerónAnd again we return to our old friends, our old enemies, that contentious duo of map and territory; I may not be a big fan of Borges, but he...
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The Ink Farm Jam Comic: Day 2The Ink Farm is a place in Augusta, Kentucky. It was founded by the artists Carol Tyler and Justin Green (1945-2022), in the hopes of...
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Inside Rust Belt ReviewCover art to Rust Belt Review Vol. 5 by Jordan Speicher-Willis. Sean Knickerbocker thought he’d moved on from his Rust Belt comic...
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“I Did Things Totally Differently Than I Normally Do”: Rina Ayuyang on The Man in the McIntosh SuitRina Ayuyang has long been a favorite of discerning comics readers, her pages built with a precise grasp of cartoon gesture and...
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The Ink Farm Jam Comic: Day 1The Ink Farm is a place in Augusta, Kentucky. It was founded by the artists Carol Tyler and Justin Green (1945-2022), in the hopes of...
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All Else Are Castles Built In The Air – This Week’s LinksEasing up towards the midway part of the year with a shorter working week than is usual, as the batteries recharge for that sprint through the...
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Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald DuckAl Taliaferro isn’t the first person you think of when it comes to drawing Donald Duck. That’s maybe not fair, considering he devoted well over 30...
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Get Damaged: A Report from Permanent Damage 5Permanent Damage curators Keenan Marshall Keller and Tom Neely ('as' show mascot Charlie Damage). Photo by Lesley Ishino. Like a lot of...
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Black Phoenix Magazine Vol. 2, No. 1I run hot and cold on Rich Tommaso. Ever since I first started seeing his stuff pop up during the (let’s call it) Image Comics Awakening of the...
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Marco Corona: Portraitist of EmotionsThe Italian graphic novel scene has its fair share of eclectic figures, but few are as elusive as Marco Corona. Bluntly put, Corona is weird. And...
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Living Breathing Things: An Interview with Briana Loewinsohn, Artist of EphemeraBriana Loewinsohn was not a name I was familiar with until I read her graphic novel, Ephemera: A Memoir , which completely and...
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Evheny OsievskyIt was not my intent to post anything on the site today, but I have heard from several sources online some very sad news regarding a TCJ...
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Something 4 The Weekend – This Week’s LinksAs I clamber on up the official TCJ- branded ladder to flick the ‘days since a seismic change in the field of direct market distribution’...
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The Secret History of Black Punk: Record ZeroRaeghan Buchanan ’s The Secret History of Black Punk: Record Zero is equal parts comic, zine, and liner notes for a killer mix tape. If you...
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Murderers’ Row: Rick LeonardiLet’s get the most obvious point out of the way, so there’s no mistake in the matter: Ann Nocenti had a very good 1989. She started the year by...
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Joe Death and the Graven ImageBenjamin Schipper was a name unknown to me until I came across Joe Death and the Graven Image in the Dark Horse section of the Previews catalog,...
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Hope Despite Everything: Nazis, Comics & CourageÉmile Bravo's frontispiece for the excellent catalogue of Spirou dans la tourmente de la Shoah ("Spirou in the Turmoil of the Holocaust") at...
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Chris Reynolds, 1960-2023Reynolds in 2018. Photo by Gil Roth for The Virtual Memories Show podcast. Used with permission. Britain in the 1980s was a fecund time...
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BabyBaby is a comic about a baby. Baby is a baby who would very much like to not be a baby. Baby learns how to not be a baby: wait 18 years. So baby...
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Building the 20th Century: Collaboration, Colonialism and Human Tragedies with the Creators of 20th Century MenAll images in this post from 20th Century Men . Art by Stipan Morian. Lettering by Aditya Bidikar. Written by Deniz Camp. Click any image to...
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Ride on Time – This Week’s LinksAh, to be young and a superhero comics fan in the springtime - informed through the medium of SEO-grabbing headlines exactly when, where, and...
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PeePee PooPoo #420Y’know, it really does seem like just last week I mentioned the surprising paucity of first-person perspective comics - oh yeah, it was just last...
