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The Lives of Cartoonists
One of the features of the new, improved The Comics Journal website is the “A Cartoonist’s Diary” series of columns, where an artist is asked to create five entries, each one portraying a day in the...
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Accidents Don’t Just Happen
This series of safe sex ads from MTV Switzerland reminds me a lot of the ridiculous stories that patients will often tell doctors (many in the emergency room) about why they need medical treatment for...
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Don’t Forget the Carters
The Carter Family are pretty important to the history of folk music in this country, and have been called “The First Family of Country Music,” but in today’s narrative they tend to get a bit lost,...
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A True Tale of Cheese
Every year I go to MoCCA Fest with a new shopping objective, based on whatever I’m interested in and in the mood for that particular year. Sometimes I like to pick up books with great design, or hefty...
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A War with No Name
Notes for a War Story by Gipi isn’t a work of nonfiction, but it was certainly inspired by real events—the author lives in northern Italy, right near the western border with Slovenia. If not for the...
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My FCBD on the Left Coast
This past Saturday was the 10th annual Free Comic Book Day, so I hope you took some time out of your weekend to visit your Local Comic Book Store to grab a few free goodies (or maybe even throw a few...
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Sweating More in ’44
During World War II lots of women were tasked with supporting the war effort and taking on work normally performed by men, who themselves were being shipped overseas to fight in said war. Which is why...
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Tintin, Communist Spy?
The movie trailer for The Adventures of Tintin has hit the ‘net, and while Tintin is a cultural icon abroad, his success in the United States has been middling at best. That should definitely change...
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Not Very Fun at All
Alison Bechdel is arguably the most famous lesbian in the comics industry, as the creator of the seminal comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, but for all the criticism and commentary she included in...
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Fight Back Against Bullying with the Power Within
Today’s the last day to donate to the Kickstarter campaign for The Power Within, an anti-bullying and anti-suicide comic by Charles “Zan” Christensen and Mark Brill, with new additional pages by Gail...
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Donald Duck, Autograph Hound
BOOM! Studios just released The Walt Disney Treasury: Donald Duck vol. 1, a 160-page collection of classic Donald Duck stories by Don Rosa, who wrote comics about Donald and Scrooge McDuck in the ’80s...
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Being an Attractive Superheroine Isn’t Easy
Last week, NBC held its upfronts, presentations where the network debuts their fall slate of programming to advertisers, and the rest of the world peeks in to find out what new delights/horrors...
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You Are Cordially Invited
I have no plans to get married any time soon, but the trials and travails chronicled in Adrian Tomine’s Scenes from an Impending Marriage make me think that simply eloping is a good idea. Guest lists,...
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Laika Lives!
Laika may have been the first animal to orbit the Earth, but there was no way to bring her back down safely, which also makes her the first to die in space—meaning that Nick Abadzis’ graphic novel...
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Telling a Story in 5 Panels with G+
So Google+ is the new “hot” social network that everyone’s jumping aboard, though it’s not without its flaws—chief among them being that Google continues to insist that people use their “real” names,...
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Out and About: Brooklyn Book Festival 2011
It should be noted that the Brooklyn Book Festival is going on right now over at Brooklyn Borough Hall. The event runs through 6pm, with vendors, panels, and performances. Vendors include Drawn &...
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That is Your Childhood Self
Yesterday Maurice Sendak died. He was the author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and many other iconic and iconoclastic children’s books. He was...
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An Artist, Who Escapes
The Holocaust is a subject that’s been covered in comics before, most notably in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, but Lily Renée, Escape Artist is a graphic novel takes a lighter approach, mostly due to the fact...
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Happiness is a well-done tribute
Sure, it’s Cyber Monday, but if you’re into comics at all, today is a far more momentous occasion. Today would have been Charles Schulz’s 90th birthday. The creator of Peanuts… well, I don’t need to...
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Survival stories
Graphic journalism continues to make headway into the field of “serious” comics, and this time it’s available on the format/medium of our times, the iPad. Symbolia is a bi-monthly digital magazine...
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