This month's zine reviews in Arrivals and Departures: RJ Casey gets whiplash from the highs and lows of indie anthologies (image from Juliette Collet) www.tcj.com/arrivals-and...
Today! Derf Backderf speaks with Jason Bergman about the past and present states of: campus policing, growing up with Jeffrey Dhamer, and literal tons of garbage: xhttps://www.tcj.com/what-always-struck-me-was-that-there-was-no-justice-an-interview-with-derf-backderf-on-the-state-of-campus-policing/
Do you realize there's only 146 days until Halloween? Chill them bones with some heteronormative horror (Happy Pride!) to get you ready: Beth Hetland's Tender, reviewed by Hagai Palevsky www.tcj.com/reviews/tend...
Today on TCJ: founding daddy complex? Hank Kennedy reviews Josh Trujillo & Levi Hastings’ Washington’s Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben www.tcj.com/reviews/wash...
It’s review time! Today, @dialhforhagai.bsky.social reviews Edgar P. Jacob’s “The U-Ray” originally published in 1943 and now in English for the first time. Is it any good? Click on the link to find out! www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...
Today on TCJ: happy/sad? are you feeling good or feeling bad? Self Esteem And The End Of The World by Luke Healy, reviewed by Tegan O'Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social
Today on TCJ: We couldn't ward off these curses if we tried! Hagai Palevsky discusses two short story collections by Kevin Huizenga and George Wylesol, both titled Curses, all found here: www.tcj.com/the-curses-o...
Today! Luke Burns interviews the anonymous multidisciplinary known as Pierre La Police about his 30+ year career in comics and fine arts. Why does he draw big noses? Only one way to find out: www.tcj.com/a-perfect-si...
Today on TCJ, Kevin Brown reviews The High Desert, a HarperCollins release from the artist and filmmaker James Spooner depicting the experience of being Black and punk. www.tcj.com/reviews/the-...
Today at the site, Jason Bergman @jasonxbergman.bsky.social interviews Jay Stephens, a longtime indie comics practitioner enjoying a new wave of appreciation for his horror series Dwellings, a work of visual pastiche and eerie impact. www.tcj.com/i-think-afte...
Not long ago, I started to think Thursdays were Fridays. Is it because the @clarklebee.bsky.social news posts seem the most appropriate summary of a week completed? It couldn’t hurt. Thank you, Clark. www.tcj.com/superstition...
Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social presents a tale of two Ronin, comparing the 1983-84 Frank Miller/Lynn Varley original with Miller’s 2022-24 sequel, made in collaboration with Philip Tan & Daniel Henriques. www.tcj.com/meanwhile-40...
Today on the TCJ site, as organized by Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social, more than 30 cartoonists, publishers, friends, loved ones and fellow travelers pay tribute to the late underground cartoonist Trina Robbins. www.tcj.com/remembering-...
Asterix: as much an institution as any European comic can be, the series’ 40th album sees the arrival of a new writer, Fabrice Caro, and a satiric focus on wellness culture. Yiannis Papadopoulos reviews Asterix and the White Iris. www.tcj.com/reviews/aste...
In December of 2023, Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.bsky.social spoke at length with the cartoonist Trina Robbins on Jewishness in comics, particularly regarding her 2017 book A Minyen Yidn, adapting Yiddish stories by her father. Today we present that interview. www.tcj.com/a-conversati...
Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social pens a comprehensive obituary for the late underground cartoonist Trina Robbins, quoting freely from her own memoirs in relating the story of a life in comics. www.tcj.com/trina-robbin...
Ahh, the penultimate Friday of the month. As a connoisseur of penultimate things, I offer you this entreaty to read the news links of @clarklebee.bsky.social - they’re here for you! www.tcj.com/one-for-you-...
William Schwartz sits down with cartoonist Norm Feuti to discuss his daily strip Retail, a comic about everyday work that ran from 2006 to 2020. www.tcj.com/a-look-back-...
Today we’ve gathered a quintet of scholars, journalists and historians to pay tribute to the late Robert Beerbohm, an early comic book retailer and impassioned citizen historian of American comics history. Beerbohm died on March 27, aged 71. www.tcj.com/remembering-...
Jon Holt & Teppei Fukuda translate a 2022 article in which Natsume Fusanosuke ponders the strange sexuality of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, and how Tezuka was able to shift the very idea of manga history around his personality. www.tcj.com/the-mystery-...
Oliver Ristau @britneyspheres.bsky.social reviews Alandal, a recent historical graphic novel (in English and German editions) from veteran artist Alex Niño, working in collaboration with the writer and filmmaker J. Philip Ignacio. www.tcj.com/reviews/alan...
It’s back: YOUR favorite monthly column of small-press and self-published capsule reviews by RJ Casey, Arrivals and Departures! (Sample art by Nebila Oguz.) www.tcj.com/arrivals-and...
Jake Zawlacki sits down with artist Matt Lesniewski, creator of texture-rich comics like The Freak and the recent Faceless and the Family, for a discussion centered on the refinement of personal craft. www.tcj.com/i-was-done-w...
