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Forces of Nature - The Comics Journal
Some people strive to attain a particular career goal, some stumble into it by accident. In the case of Edward Steed, he almost seemed destined to be a cartoonist for the New Yorker; the 37-year-old British export to the Big Apple wanted to draw for the venerable publication, he did it, and he continues to... Read more »
Political cartoonists on facing Donald Trump, again: 'There is no consensus reality anymore' - The Comics Journal
Shrinking newspaper circulations. Social media morass. First amendment rights. Zach Rabiroff talks to a variety of cartoonists about all that and more as we head into a second Donald Trump administration.
Adrift on a Painted Sea - The Comics Journal
Tim Bird’s graphic memoir is a brief, meditative book, but the emotions it contains are large. The plot is easy to summarize, as there are really only two major parts to the book: an overview of Bird’s mother’s interest in art; and the end of her life, when she dies of cancer during the COVID-19... Read more »
The Legend of Kamui Vol. 1 (of 10) - The Comics Journal
PLEASE NOTE: In keeping with the conventions observed in the book under review, all names in this article are presented in the Japanese naming order, family name before given name, e.g., Shirato Sanpei rather than Sanpei Shirato. * * * Though we still await the summertime release of the fifth volume in Drawn & Quarterly's... Read more »
Barry Malzberg: At an hourly wage rate that would astonish even a teamster - The Comics Journal
In this Carter Scholz column from The Comics Journal #82 (July 1983), he sings the praises of editor and SF writers' writer Barry Malzberg (Herovit's World, Galaxies, Beyond Apollo, The Falling Astronauts).
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 »