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Wild's End: Book One - The Comics Journal
Before we begin this review I have a request: go and look at the Dan Abnett bibliography. A bit intimidating, is it? Odds are, between the time I wrote these words and time this article will be published it could get quite a bit longer. Heck, maybe he managed to sneak in a book while... Read more »
The High Desert - The Comics Journal
James Spooner is probably best known for Afropunk (2003), a documentary that explores what it means to be Black and a punk. This graphic memoir provides the background for how Spooner came to punk in the first place, focusing on his time in Apple Valley, California, a place not known for either punk rock or... Read more »
Asterix and the White Iris - The Comics Journal
Please note that this review is based on the UK release by Sphere. A North American edition is also available from Papercutz. * * * With a press run of five million copies (three million of those in French) and translated into almost 20 languages simultaneously, the 40th Asterix album, "The White Iris," was released... Read more »
A Conversation with Trina Robbins, December 2023 - The Comics Journal
We are pleased to present a never-before-seen interview with Trina Robbins, perhaps the late artist's final longform interview, conducted by Zach Rabiroff in December of 2023 on the topic of Jewishness in Robbins' comics and comics history.
Remembering Comics Retailer and Historian Robert Beerbohm, 1952-2024 - The Comics Journal
Following the death of American comic book retailer and historian Robert Beerbohm on March 27, 2024, we reached out to notable comics academics, writers and historians and asked them to share their memories of him.
Alandal - The Comics Journal
Back in 2015, when I was chewing over an exhausting congratulatory message for Alex Niño's then-75th birthday, cleverly disguised as an article for a German newspaper and to be later refurbished when working as a Comics Journal scribe on saluting his 80th birthday, I became convinced that there wouldn't be more new material from the... Read more »
Somna #1-3 - The Comics Journal
DSTLRY 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 is going to suck. I don’t always pay attention to the new publisher announcements, I must admit. It’s hard to get attached to the poor dears. Such... Read more »
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir - The Comics Journal
Maurice Vellekoop has made his living as an artist and illustrator, but this is his first bookshelf-sized sequential comic. A memoir, it tells the story of how he becomes an artist, his move out of the church and community that guided his early life, his coming out, and his relationship with his parents. It covers... Read more »
Asadora! - The Comics Journal
What separates Naoki Urasawa from his contemporaries—both in the “big in western countries” sense and “manga creators of his generation” sense—is his all-encompassing command of verisimilitude. No matter how melodramatic or outlandish the setting, be it Monster’s fairly grounded psychological horror, 20th Century Boys’ era-spanning thrills, or Pluto’s decompressed, ultra-fatalistic sci-fi, Urasawa's pacing, linework, and... Read more »
Junior Baker the Righteous Faker #1-5 - The Comics Journal
Well, 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 the years. Not as much as some. He’s got a voice as a writer. A really strong voice, even as he’s an extraordinarily potent collaborator. Writes a different... Read more »
Unended - The Comics Journal
Josh Bayer gave himself an interesting creative challenge with Unended: adapting his late father’s unfinished play into a comic. In the process of doing so, he’s created a fascinating memoir that melds the plot of this play, memories of his childhood and the conversations surrounding the making of the comic into a dreamy, colorful work... Read more »
Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage - The Comics Journal
In Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage, pseudonymous multi-hyphenate Pierre La Police, who’s been kicking around the French comics scene for more than 30 years now, manages to pull off a trick that’s a lot more impressive than it might initially sound: he creates a comic that’s a 162-page narrative but consists of pages set... Read more »
When the Line Gets Interesting: Tanioka Yasuji and Sugiura Shigeru - The Comics Journal
Few things are more readily observable in comics than the line a cartoonist uses to draw on the page. In this newly translated excerpt from a 1997 study, Natsume Fusanosuke looks to the examples of manga artists Tanioka Yasuji and Sugiura Shigeru to explore the fundamental characteristics of the artist's line.