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“The Political Aspect Of My Work Is Asserting That Comics Like Tits & Clits Do Have Social Value”: A Discussion with Sam MeierSam Meier (left) with Joyce Farmer (right). The impact of women on the underground and alternative comic scenes of the late 20th century...
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A Sociocultural Oral History of Tits & ClitsThe United States is increasingly limiting women’s rights, reducing public knowledge about sexuality, and targeting the LGBTQ+ community....
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Show Them It’s About The Work – This Week’s LinksThe 2020s’ cosplay of the 1920s was really hitting hard this week, with the spectre of banking collapses and global recessions floating in and...
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Murderers’ Row: Lee WeeksI. So, first things first: get up and walk over to the longbox, take out your set of 1989’s Marvel Summer Annual Crossover Atlantis Attacks...
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Grip of the KombinatI’ve always enjoyed Simon Roy’s worldbuilding. There’s a certain griminess that pervades his work, a sense of things broken that adds...
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MyComicShop.ComBuddy Saunders on his 74th birthday. There is something more than a little improbable about MyComicShop.com . Look through the ad...
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Doucet and Valium, Angoulême and MarseilleWhen Julie Doucet was selected as president of the 50th edition of the Angoulême Comics Festival in 2022, the announcement included news...
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Why Don’t You Love Me?*CONTAINS SPOILERS* There’s a certain moment in the Radiohead song “You and Whose Army?” where the brooding atmosphere of the beginning...
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“I Prefer To Explore The Contradictions, The Nuances”: A Conversation with Valencian artist Ana PenyasAll images from We're All Just Fine unless otherwise noted. English translation by Andrea Rosenberg. Click any image to enlarge. I met...
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Soul Limbo – This Week’s LinksGlaring at the tree which stands outside the window of my office does not seem to be doing much to encourage the appearance of spring, or even...
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European Journal 2023, Part 2: Paris and AngoulêmePart 1 is here. After two days of pushing through jet lag to process hundreds of international children’s comics as a judge at the...
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The Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #1-7A question of form, if you please: what is the upper limit of complexity a drawing can achieve before it loses legibility? A rhetorical question,...
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All TalkAll Talk tells the story of three young friends on the cusp of adulthood teetering on the edge of a violent world; in this case, the world of...
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Comics Brut-alI wrote a piece in The Comics Journal #307 (Winter-Spring 2021) about the as-then unpublished works of James Kugler that began: “It’s...
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Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17–21It's hard to claim that Tatsuki Fujimoto is anything other than the mainstream mangaka of the moment. Chainsaw Man wasn't his first longform...
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SpaSure, the dark substance oozing out from the corners of the bathhouse could be mold growth from the moisture, but it’s gelatinous enough to...
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Dialogue Balloons: Lucy KnisleyJason and cartoonist Lucy Knisley talk about shared pencil obsessions, parenting nuances, and comics for children. The post Dialogue Balloons:...
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At Image, Comic Book Workers United Takes Another Step in a Long Union WalkThe process of unionization in the comic industry has never been for the faint of heart. Since the first attempts to form a writers’ union...
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All Over Bar The Shouting – This Week’s LinksRunning up against deadline this week and all I had jotted down in the notes app on my phone (where a lot of this week’s links, a selection of...
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Comics at the Oscars: IvaluThe Academy Awards kick off this weekend, and one nominee serves as a reminder that comic book adaptations don’t entirely revolve around...
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Ant #1-6Since we’re on the subject, you know who draws a pretty decent Hulk? Erik Larsen. Never had a regular run on the title but he did draw the...
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firebugsThe sports bra stays on during sex. Breasts are bound and untouched while the ass gets dildo-fucked, so when Ingken, in the post-coital afterglow,...
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The Tradition of Training Images in Manga“Manga ni okeru shūgyō imēji no denshō” From Natsume Fusanosuke, Moro Shigeki, Li Baohua, Ochi Hiroko, Nomura Hideto, Yamada Setsuko, Karada no...
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Our ColorsGay themes–or, at least, same-sex romantic themes, a distinction that is more important than it might seem at first–are so ubiquitous in manga...
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Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott AdamsThe following essay was originally published in The Comics Journal #306 (Summer-Fall 2020). Hyperlinks have been added by the website...
