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Deprog #1-2 - The Comics Journal
Note: This review covers the first two issues of Deprog. A trade paperback collecting the first four issues is also available now. Whether or not the idea of a publisher having a sensibility is “real,” making a claim for one is an expression of context; a way to sort history, draw lines, and avoid the... Read more »
Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist - The Comics Journal
Kate Carew: America's First Great Woman Cartoonist is a carefully compiled, linear history of Carew’s career, authored by veteran comics legend Eddie Campbell, with help from the titular artist’s granddaughter, Christine Chambers. Packed with examples of Carew’s work from across her career, it feels beefier than its 160 pages. Born Mary Williams in the late... Read more »
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused: Olivier Schrauwen's imagined Sunday - The Comics Journal
Tegan O'Neil gets a Sunday visit from the spirit of Oliver Schrauwen Present to pontificate one the nature of a long read and how we spend our time- hey, who ate all the Takis?
1949 - The Comics Journal
When Sebastiana Blank wakes up in the hospital, about a third of the way into 1949, she cannot speak English and does not understand her surroundings. She is the best detective in the biz — except she's not. Not really. This is a pivotal moment in Dustin Weaver's recent standalone volume from Image Comics, originally... Read more »
'Screw the industry, we're in it for the art form': An interview with Shelly and Philip Bond - The Comics Journal
Shelly Bond is a force of nature, her massive energy just as apparent in her conversation as it is in the abundant flow of information that makes up her two illustrated illustrative volumes of memoir and editing tips: Filth & Grammar: The Comic Book Editor’s Secret Handbook and Fast Times In Comic Book Editing. Once... Read more »
Iris: A Novel for Viewers - The Comics Journal
When thinking about Dutch comics, what immediately jumps to my mind is Janwillem van de Wetering. That's not because he's a more prominent personality in the field than, say, Joost Swarte – arguably the most well-known player in Netherlandic comics overseas and elsewhere – but with Murder By Remote Control in 1986 van de Wetering... Read more »
Dog Head #1 - The Comics Journal
Dave Cooper has made a career out of creating work that makes you look twice. At first glance his comics could be mistaken for a still from a Fleischer Studios cartoon, one where the artist has been given a little more free reign than usual, perhaps. Then you check again, and start to see the... Read more »
Chrysanthemum Under the Waves - The Comics Journal
There is something about trying times that brings out the best in some artists. Historically and contemporarily, war, disease, loss, turmoil, and uncertainty can be a great silencer, but in some people, it is just as great a focuser. With the entire world coming apart, what is there to do but close yourself off to... Read more »
The 2024 Eisner Awards and Hall of Fame induction ceremony: photo galleries - The Comics Journal
The 2024 Eisner Awards Hall of Fame was held on the morning of July 26 during the San Diego Comic Convention (Comic-Con). Each year the Eisner Awards judges select 19 individuals to automatically be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame. This year's inductees included 12 deceased comics pioneers – Creig Flessel,... Read more »
B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown - The Comics Journal
In the long historical line of public figures who have “gone native,” B. Traven stands out. The (probably) American-born writer, best known as the author of the novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, was in his thirties when he found himself on a beach in Tampico, Mexico, more or less by chance, but he... Read more »
Naked City - The Comics Journal
The big city, specifically New York City, excites the senses to no end, especially those of an artist. For Eric Drooker, a longtime street artist who rose up the ranks to become a regular contributor of cover art for The New Yorker, his muse is The Big Apple, and it has inspired him to create... Read more »