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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
'Almost everything I've done to this point has led me into this project': An interview with Anders Nilsen - The Comics Journal
In his 2015 Comics Journal interview with Marc Sobel, Anders Nilsen said, “I am just embarking on a new graphic novel which I expect to be a long-term project. … I don’t really know where it’s going yet, but I expect it’s going to be a pretty long process, though hopefully not fifteen years again... Read more »
Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown - The Comics Journal
A new book by Mike Mignola. By that I mean an actual new book, not another Hellboy spin-off/prequel/sequel/re-imagining/whatever. It has been a while, hasn’t it? To be clear, when I write “by Mike Mignola” I mean a book by Mike Mignola, not: “A book by Mike Mignola and some other people who do their best... Read more »
One-Eyed Want - The Comics Journal
Michael Banas’ One-Eyed Want is built around a look familiar to those who follow indie comics, and likely dismissed by anyone who doesn’t. Pages primarily stick to a six-panel grid. Characters possess simplified eyes, lacking lower lids, their haircuts mere outlines. The figure drawing reminds me of Michiel Budel, Allison Cole, or Daryl Seitchik. Thin... Read more »
Blacksad: They All Fall Down, Part 2 - The Comics Journal
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is great. This is a truth universally acknowledged and utterly bizarre. A thousand plus pages on what is, in a first glance, a minor functionary in New York City, is probably the greatest American biography ever written. Better than the works of Doris Karns... Read more »
Milk White Steed - The Comics Journal
In Michael D. Kennedy’s debut work, he lays out ten short stories that all center around those who have come from the Caribbean — the Indies, as several characters say — to England. While he varies the color palette from one story to the next, making them clearly stand out from one another, a through-line... Read more »