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Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life - The Comics Journal
Biographies of artists, writers, film stars, politicians, teachers, sports heroes and business tycoons are a mainstay of the publishing world. A biography of a cartoonist, given the same serious, level-headed treatment, is still a rare event. Despite the increased popularity of comics in America, as our culture becomes more visually literate, such books are a... Read more »
Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741 - The Comics Journal
The alleged plotters of the New York Conspiracy of 1741, the “most horrible and destructive plot that was ever yet known in these northern parts of America,” suffered greatly for their temerity. Seventeen Black men, two white men, and two white women were hanged at the gallows. Thirteen Black men were burned at the stake.... Read more »
All My Bicycles - The Comics Journal
I’m trying to seize the fourth dimension of this instant-now so fleeting that it’s already gone because it’s already become a new instant-now that’s also already gone. Everything has an instant in which it is. I want to grab hold of the is of the thing.” - Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva A dark and empty... Read more »
U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: 'No one should be here' - The Comics Journal
On Feb. 26, 2025, Rebecca Burke became a prisoner of the United States immigration system. Burke, a 28-year-old comic artist from Wales, had come to the U.S. on a tourist visa on Jan. 7, in the waning days of the Biden administration, with a backpacking itinerary that entailed staying with friendly homeowners in exchange for... Read more »
Life Drawing - The Comics Journal
At this point — at any point during the 21st century really — getting into Love and Rockets seems like more trouble than its worth. The reviews are still good, they’ve always been good, but there’s just so much of it. And unlike one of these long-running manga serials with hundreds of collections, the Love... Read more »
Zatanna: Bring Down the House - The Comics Journal
Zatanna Zatara! What a concept! Why, I just so happen to have read Hawkman #4 (1964) quite recently. Nothing better for a mental reset than Silver Age DC, as my grandmother used to say. Remarkable how fully-formed the character appears out of the gate. Another legacy character, just like Barry Allen and Hal Jordan and... Read more »
Flash Point - The Comics Journal
If we’re going to talk about politics, even if just in the context of the abstract idea of “political art,” we’re going to have to clarify what we mean by “politics” first. Ideally we’d be talking about the use of power as a means of improving the lives of people, as that has historically been... Read more »
'Right now I'm just trying to get the stories done': Catching up with Kyle Baker - The Comics Journal
Even among multi-hyphenates, Kyle Baker stands apart. After earning his stripes at Marvel Comics in the early ‘80s, he moved on to writing and drawing graphic novels, earning acclaim for his early works The Cowboy Wally Show (Doubleday, 1988) and Why I Hate Saturn (Piranha Press, 1990). But that was just the start of an... Read more »
Welcome to Casa Baba - The Comics Journal
Casa Baba is simultaneously a space and a non-space: part of the Baba Jaga Europe’s initiative attempt to "open up" a pan-European culture independent of borders and national traditions, it is a residency insofar as its artists live elsewhere for a set period of time, but they do not live in the same physical space,... Read more »
Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution - The Comics Journal
America was in a patriotic mood. The year 1976 marked two centuries of national independence and the country was on a red-white-and-blue bicentennial binge. Railway engines, fire hydrants, telephone books, and the disposable packaging of innumerable consumer goods were redesigned or redecorated to mark the occasion. The government issued special coins. Queen Elizabeth presented the... Read more »
Sol Brager ferments inter-generational anxiety with their memoir, Heavyweight - The Comics Journal
Sol Brager, author of Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory (William Morrow, 2024) spoke with author and educatrix Tina Horn in late 2024 about the creation of their ink-washed paperback and the curiosity and queerness it took to make it. Heavyweight provides a deeply researched look into layers of trauma and... Read more »
The Collected Toppi Vol. 11: War Stories - The Comics Journal
Let us look, briefly, at the key characteristics of Sergio Toppi as a cartoonist: characters often stretch past the bounds of their panels, in compositions that resemble stained-glass windows; objects often do the same, rendered as negative space; surfaces are rendered with fiddly, clashing textures; angles flit between long shots and extreme close-ups; speech balloons... Read more »