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Trouble! At Coal Creek - The Comics Journal
There’s something in the air, and I’m not sure it’s coal dust. After last year’s Black Coal and Red Bandannas, Haymarket Books have published Trouble! at Coal Creek by Austin Sauerbrei. Sauerbrei is, aside from a comics writer and artist, director of the Tennessee-based Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM). He wrote in Scalawag that... Read more »
'See My Light Come Shining,' an excerpt from Bob Levin's Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes and Mysteries - The Comics Journal
Today we are pleased to provide an excerpt of Bob Levin's essay "See My Light Coming," about famed underground cartoonist Vaughn Bode, which was originally printed in The Comics Journal Special Edition Vol. 5 2005.
Here's Hoping You're Swell — This Week's Links - The Comics Journal
New York Comic Con weekend arrives, as it inevitably does, which, in the esoteric calendar of this week’s links, below, means we’ve hit the part of the year marked “if it isn’t done by now then it ain’t getting done, chalk it up as a loss and try again in 2026."
'The character is always the most important part': An interview with Melissa Mendes - The Comics Journal
Melissa Mendes’ new book The Weight is a tome. A book that takes place over decades, it is the story of one character, Edie. A long book that is at its best in detailing small, silent moments. Scenes in nature as Edie and other characters live their lives. These quiet scenes of being, people in... Read more »
Space Opera Xanadax - The Comics Journal
I love my toys. Feng shui be damned, I turned some of my kitchen shelves into an action figure display case, with themes. One shelf is various Batmen, from Dark Knight Frank Miller Batman to the Batman of Zur-En-Arhh to Mr. Potato Head Batman. Another shelf is for Jack Kirby characters, where for once Darkseid... Read more »
Spent: A Comic Novel - The Comics Journal
Not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you. - Ancient proverb There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized... Read more »
The Professional: Peter David, 1956-2025 - The Comics Journal
Peter David, the writer known for a long and inventive run on The Incredible Hulk, his copious work on Star Trek comics and licensed novels, and a bewildering number of comics, prose stories, editorial columns, animation scripts, film and television treatments, news stories, and blog entries died in a hospital bed on May 24, 2025,... Read more »
Demon Summoner Gash Gash - The Comics Journal
Once there was a publisher by the name of Slave Labor Graphics. That name wouldn’t fly these days, but for 25 years, cartoonists accepted it on the basis of it being unrepresentative of their payment practices. At least by Evan Dorkin’s account, they paid a greater royalty on reprints (60%) than anyone does now. Dorkin... Read more »
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 »