The world really is a strange, strange place isn’t it? Not only does Shia LaBeouf make mini comics, but they don’t look at all bad, and Sean T. Collins at The Comics Journal rather likes them: “All right, let’s take the elephant in the room and fly that fucker around like Dumbo: These are self-published, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 20, 2012
The brick sized TCJ #302 should be out this Autumn. As usual, full of more reading than you can probably get through before Christmas. But noteably, it has an interview with Maurice Sendak, something we’d talk about anyway, but made all the more important by his death this month. Essential reading. Gary Groth has posted [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 16, 2012
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Over on the very fine Comics Journal Rob Clough has some very kind things to say about two of the fab Indy presses that have been making the UK comics scene such a delight: Blank Slate Books and Nobrow: “Every now and then, when a new publishing concern pops up, one wonders how it’s possible [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 7, 2012
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Over at the Comics Journal website they have an interview with Kevin Eastman that originally ran in the magazine back in March 1998. I remember reading it at the time and being just as absorbed then as I was this time around. It was a magnificently insane time, with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird still [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 30, 2011
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Over on The Comics Journal Gavin Lees has posted up a good, long interview with a pair of my favourite creators, John and Sandra of Glasgow-based Metaphrog: (a beautiful dream sequence from Louis: Night Salad by and (c) Metaphrog) “LEES: What was your impetus to make narrative art? Is storytelling something you always wanted to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 18, 2011
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Strand Books has video up of their recent panel on industry icon The Comics Journal (or simply TCJ as it is to many of us), with editors Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel along with Kim Deitch and Gary Groth discussing the three decade-plus history of TCJ, and believe us, TCJ history is important to anyone [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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You know, we just don’t link enough to The Comics Journal website and to be honest, I really don’t spend enough time reading it either. But one of the great things about the website is the sheer volume of archive material they have access to, material they regularly make available, completely free (no paywalls here) [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 2010
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The Comics Journal website has recently posted part one of a five part interview with Kevin O’Neill, artist on many, many comics you may/should own including Nemesis, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Marshall Law (the huge compendium of Marshall Law should be out later this year from Top Shelf). Part One, Part Two, Part Three, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 22, 2009
This week issue 300 of the Comics Journal, the last regular edition before a relaunch as a larger bi-annual magazine, was online for free. For a day. Then it got unceremoniously yanked from the net. Joe covered it here when it went online and here when it went AWOL. Well, now that Dirk’s had a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
The 300th issue of the excellent Comics Journal, one of the best reads about the medium you’ll find in the English language (and now the final issue in the traditional format as it moves to a bi-annual, larger format), is now available to read free online – From Dirk’s description of the line-up in #300: [...]
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