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The Magazine of Comics Journalism, Criticism and History
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"A person watching the TV show might forget, most of the time, that they all work for the CIA. Garth Ennis did not, and the reference to this in the comics is much, much more explicitly negative." yesssss
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What sight is more satiating: an adulterous boyfriend darkening one's door, or the expanse of your own clean sheets unfurling on the clothesline? Yamada Murasaki (translated by Ryan Holmberg) explores this eternal question in Second Hand Love, reviewed by Helen Chazan www.tcj.com/reviews/seco...
Second Hand Love - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com It is special to read a comic which not only stands on its own as a great work in the medium but also forces the reader to reexamine an artist’s prior work and appreciate their voice in a new light. F...
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just saw this today at Film Forum and it was fantastic, go see it in a theater if you can!
Someone's barking up the right tree! Sara Varon of the newly adapted for the big screen, Robot Dreams, talks with Gina Gagliano about not sitting still, book recommendations, and dogs, dogs, DOGS! www.tcj.com/really-i-jus...
'Really I just want to stay home and make art about my dog': An interview with Sara Varon - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Sara Varon talks books, film and dogs, dogs, dogs with Gina Gagliano
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Someone's barking up the right tree! Sara Varon of the newly adapted for the big screen, Robot Dreams, talks with Gina Gagliano about not sitting still, book recommendations, and dogs, dogs, DOGS! www.tcj.com/really-i-jus...
'Really I just want to stay home and make art about my dog': An interview with Sara Varon - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Sara Varon talks books, film and dogs, dogs, dogs with Gina Gagliano
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39 years old today, I've wasted my life! Most recently, by writing about Max Huffman's minicomic Hypermutt for The Comics Journal
Hypermutt - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Max
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Who's a good dog? It could be you! Today on TCJ, Max Huffman's Hypermutt reviewed by Brian Nicholson www.tcj.com/reviews/hype...
Hypermutt - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Max
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I thought that Fantagraphics' recent collection of comics by Frank Johnson was a delightful artifact and a great read, burdened by a core curatorial premise that goes against much of what I believe about art and historical conception. My latest (and imho one of the best I've written), for TCJ:
American Comics and Secret Pioneers: Frank Johnson's Decades of Hidden Gags Strips - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Frank Johnson toiled for decades on thousands of pages of comics, all of which remained unseen by anyone but Johnson until his death in 1979. Hagai Palevsky illustrates the significance of creating in...
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This is a really good article about who gets credited as creators of corporate comic characters like Wolverine, who receives the bulk of attention, but I was most interested to learn that The Cat's (Greer Grant Nelson) creators are credited as Roy Thomas & Wally Wood, not Linda Fite & Marie Severin.
For The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social, I wrote an in-depth investigation into Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of who created Wolverine. Featuring interviews with many of the key players.
Logan’s Run: Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of the Wolverine - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Who really did create Wolverine? And just as importantly, why should any of the rest of us care?
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On a (slightly) more serious note - what this article shows is that when it comes to long-running shared-universe stuff the answer to the question "who created what?" is almost always "it's complicated"
For The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social, I wrote an in-depth investigation into Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of who created Wolverine. Featuring interviews with many of the key players.
Logan’s Run: Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of the Wolverine - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Who really did create Wolverine? And just as importantly, why should any of the rest of us care?
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Today on TCJ: Get your shoes on, it's time to join Zach Rabiroff in scaling the summit of Wolverine: www.tcj.com/logans-run-r...
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For The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social, I wrote an in-depth investigation into Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of who created Wolverine. Featuring interviews with many of the key players.
Logan’s Run: Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and the curious case of the Wolverine - The Comics Journalwww.tcj.com Who really did create Wolverine? And just as importantly, why should any of the rest of us care?
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