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Dr. Werthless - The Comics Journal
Harold Schechter and Eric Powell’s graphic biography of Dr. Fredric Wertham — the great bogeyman of comic book history — is sympathetically (and beautifully) illustrated and includes sincere attempts to highlight some positive aspects of his life. Because of this, readers may not realize how far Dr. Werthless falls short in doing justice to his... Read more »
The Pit - The Comics Journal
Dutch cartoonist Erik Kriek has been mining a narrow but rich vein of comics over the last few years that places him in the same cultural space as certain film directors who do not choose to cast their nets wide or their sights exceptionally high, but rather chisel away at the same basic shapes, refining... Read more »
And The Strange And Funky Happenings One Day - The Comics Journal
I recently learned that people talking about manga have a very different definition of “slice of life” than people talking about American comics. In American comics, slice of life refers to work that is realistic, low-stakes, mundane, often seeming semi-autobiographical due to its basis in observed existence. When manga readers use the term, the work... Read more »
Cover Story: The 2000 AD Design Art of Robin Smith - The Comics Journal
“[Munsky and McClure] were now selling magazines bellow the cost of production. They were able to do so because the big money came from selling advertising. Ads in turn were an artifact of the boom in mass-produced consumer goods” — Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 Do... Read more »
The artist’s 'touch' and drawing tools: A history of changes in manga expression - The Comics Journal
Translators Satomi Newsom and Jon Holt bring to us a chapter from Natsume Fusanosuke and Takekuma Kentaro's How to Read Manga, looking at how using different art tools helped change the face of the medium.
Plant-Based Monster Trucks - The Comics Journal
According to my fellow country-man Goethe, the Gretchen question always goes straight to the core of an issue. In this case the issue is entitled Plant-Based Monster Trucks. The title alone perfectly subsumes the recurring culture wars that are happening around us now. So the question “Now, what's your stance on comics” comes in handy,... Read more »
Nour Hifaoui's Titties: Resistance against censorship in the Arab world - The Comics Journal
Even though anglo-comic books never took off in Lebanon, Franco-Belgian comics were a staple of Lebanese childhoods for those who were French-educated until the Internet became a fixture of daily life. Since there are no punitive measures in the country against those who pirate digital files, Lebanese youth, for the first time, suddenly had unrestricted... Read more »
Checked Out - The Comics Journal
Katie Fricas’s debut graphic novel tells the story of Louise — or Lou, as most people know and refer to her — a young queer woman who’s trying to write and draw a graphic novel about a heroic band of pigeons in World War I. She ends up working as a page in a private... Read more »