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Holy Lacrimony - The Comics Journal
Ladies, friends, hangers-on — I ask you, please, a round of applause for Mr. Michael DeForge! Fresh from >checks note< is that right, a sailboat ride around the world? No? No sailboat? Aww, no sailboat. Just a book. Just a book. Just a book! A new book from Mr. Michael DeForge! That certainly counts for... Read more »
Red Night - The Comics Journal
Three months ago, Bubbles Zine published Beautiful Monster, a suite of early stores by gruesome titan Maruo Suehiro, selected from his first three Japanese collections (1982-83) by the translator Ryan Holmberg. Now comes another Holmberg project, from Breakdown Press: the first-ever English volume of short stories by Hanawa Kazuichi, a fellow traveler of Maruo's in... Read more »
Ginseng Roots - The Comics Journal
Ginseng Roots, a rambling blend of memoir, journalism, and history that took four to five concerted years to create, is Craig Thompson’s best book-length comic, full stop. It’s a formal triumph, a pained and complicated human story, and a didactic marvel — something I expect to reread and dip into again and again. Quixotic, genre-defying,... Read more »
R.I.P. Jim Shooter - The Comics Journal
As you probably have already heard former Marvel Editor-in Chief Jim Shooter has died at the age of 73 after a long battle with esophageal cancer. As the head of Marvel Comics during one of its largest and most significant periods of growth, Shooter was a controversial figure to put it mildly, one who was... Read more »
The 1982 DC Comics Style Guide - The Comics Journal
To begin, a story. A familiar anecdote, circulated freely for years and repeated by many. It’s credited to Andrew Helfer, longtime DC editor reaching back to the early '80s. Where Helfer originally recounted the anecdote appears lost to the mists of social media, at least according to the Google of 2025. So far as I... Read more »
High debts, high rents and miscommunication: What happened to Silver Sprocket - The Comics Journal
Silver Sprocket, the San Francisco-based publisher and retailer, currently finds itself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that is personally held by owner Avi Ehrlich, the Comics Journal has learned.
Joe Galaxy - The Comics Journal
In the years before Massimo Mattioli’s death in 2019, the artist surrounded himself with a certain air of mystery. The man seemed to shy away from public life. He did not produce new comics, and his works had been out of print for a long time until Italy’s Coconino Press, Panini Comics and Comicon Edizioni... Read more »
Insectopolis: A Natural History - The Comics Journal
Peter Kuper is a cartoonist who is living the dream of making it big in the big city. His work has regularly appeared in three iconic NYC publications: The New Yorker, The Nation and Mad, the latter being where he wrote and illustrated “Spy vs. Spy” for nearly 30 years. Perhaps most notably, considering Kuper’s... Read more »