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One For You, Nineteen For Me – This Week’s LinksWith the changing of the seasons, the passing of the years, and a look at my comics shelves that are nearly full once again, my thoughts slip...
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Remembering Comics Retailer and Historian Robert Beerbohm, 1952-2024Robert Beerbohm at an early comic book convention. All photos courtesy of Kathryn Beerbohm Young. Comics historian and retailer Robert...
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A Look Back at Retail, a Comic Strip About Work, with Cartoonist Norm FeutiNewspaper comics take many forms, from domestic comedies, to funny animals, to workplace drama. But one workplace seldom seen in the funny pages...
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The Mystery Behind Astro Boy“ Tetsuwan Atomu no nazo” Episode 12 of “Natsume Fusanosuke’s Manga Yarns” (“Natsume Fusanosuke no manga yotabanashi, sono 12”), posted on...
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Arrivals and Departures – April 2024Hi. How’re things going for you? Pretty awful? Yeah, me too. I don’t know what else to do, so I’ll just write about some more comics....
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AlandalBack in 2015, when I was chewing over an exhausting congratulatory message for Alex Niño's then-75th birthday, cleverly disguised as an article...
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“I Was Done With Not Being Noticed”: The Matt Lesniewski InterviewI first encountered Matt Lesniewski 's comics while sitting in a candlelit church waiting for a violin and piano duet to walk onto the...
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Black Hole Sun – This Week’s LinksNo eclipse here in Merrie Olde London Towne , sadly, which is probably for the best, as we’d have been unlikely to see it through the ever...
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An Interview with Trina RobbinsIn this vintage interview from The Comics Journal #53 (Winter 1980), Bill Sherman speaks with the cartoonist Trina Robbins (1938-2024) about a...
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Somna #1-3DSTLRY is the name of the company - that’s all caps and no vowels, like it’s 1999 and Bobby Gillespie is singing about how much the 21st century...
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Ed Piskor, 1982-2024Ed Piskor, photographed by Chris Anthony Diaz at the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, 2014. Edward R. Piskor, Jr., a cartoonist and...
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Mark D. Bright, 1955-2024Artist's portrait from the 2020 digital edition of Icon: A Hero's Welcome . Issue #257 of DC’s House of Mystery wasn’t short on talent...
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Victory ParadeVictory Parade is an intense graphic novel by an intense cartoonist. Leela Corman’s comics have a somber tone spiked with a dark humor, going...
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The War on Gaza – 4.9.24This is the seventh installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.” The post The War on Gaza – 4.9.24 appeared first on The...
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“You Can Best Access The Truth About An Era And Time Through Its Pop Culture Ephemera”: An Interview with Tim LaneArt by Tim Lane. Tim Lane is the creator of the comic book series Happy Hour in America (2011-2021) and the Fantagraphics books...
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Leela Corman on Victory Parade, Genocide and Transgressive Art: “This Is My Corner Of Humanity’s Coffin To Carry”Leela Corman. Photo by Dena Rosenberg. I’ve been a fan of Leela Corman ’s work since her Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn...
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April Now in Morning Clad – This Week’s LinksIf you are not especially plugged into comics-focused social channels, and in 2024 I think that is probably the correct decision to make, then...
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I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together: A MemoirMaurice Vellekoop has made his living as an artist and illustrator, but this is his first bookshelf-sized sequential comic. A memoir, it tells the...
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The End of History, as Presented by Sergio ToppiFuture Perfect , the tenth volume in Magnetic Press' collected works of Sergio Toppi, 1 sets itself apart before you've even opened...
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Asadora!What separates Naoki Urasawa from his contemporaries—both in the “big in western countries” sense and “manga creators of his generation” sense—is...
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Cartoonist Ed Piskor Dead at 41File photo of Ed Piskor in 2015. Ed Piskor, prominent writer/artist of comics such as Wizzywig , Hip Hop Family Tree , X-Men: Grand...
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Leela Corman on Victory Parade, Genocide and Transgressive Art: “This Is My Corner Of Humanity’s Coffin To Carry.”Leela Corman. Photo by Dena Rosenberg. I’ve been a fan of Leela Corman ’s work since her Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn...
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The Long Good Friday – This Week’s LinksAnother month down as my flat slowly fills with the fallen soldiers from my Far Side, New Yorker, Garfield, and Peanuts day-to-day...
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Junior Baker the Righteous Faker #1-5Well, now - perhaps a few words on Joe Casey? Is that something people might like? I’ve spent a fair amount of time discussing Joe Casey, over...
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Take a Look, It’s In a Book: Classics Illustrated at First ComicsWhile retaining the issue #1 mark, this 1947 reprint of the original '41 debut issue of Classic Comics includes the now-famous Classics...
