The Comics Journal

9 min read 2023-03-31 19:10:53

Complete Global Saturation – This Week’s Links

Ah, spring is finally here, and I can watch the parakeets (emphatically not released by Jimi Hendrix) eating blossom off the tree outside my office

11 min read 2023-03-30 18:00:46

In 2021, a New York-based entity calling itself MMYOPE published three handsomely-formatted books in relatively quick succession: NYC TAP/I’m Very

10 min read 2023-03-30 18:00:31

Shall we then, at last, discuss Jae Lee? He’s been around for a fair while, our Mr. Lee. He started really young - not even 20 years old when he

13 min read 2023-03-29 18:00:55

Over the past few weeks, as the members of Comic Book Workers United at Image Comics took their latest step forward on the path toward organization

6 min read 2023-03-29 18:00:40

Our first image is a body bathed in the shadow of a police officer. The body is lifeless, and its ankles are slouched to suggest that this person had

19 min read 2023-03-28 18:00:54

Sam Meier (left) with Joyce Farmer (right). The impact of women on the underground and alternative comic scenes of the late 20th century has been the

25 min read 2023-03-27 18:00:18

The United States is increasingly limiting women’s rights, reducing public knowledge about sexuality, and targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Due to

25 min read 2023-03-27 18:00:18

The United States is increasingly limiting women’s rights, reducing public knowledge about sexuality, and targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Due to

9 min read 2023-03-24 18:42:08

The 2020s’ cosplay of the 1920s was really hitting hard this week, with the spectre of banking collapses and global recessions floating in and out

29 min read 2023-03-23 18:00:40

I. So, first things first: get up and walk over to the longbox, take out your set of 1989’s Marvel Summer Annual Crossover Atlantis Attacks. It’s

4 min read 2023-03-23 18:00:17

I’ve always enjoyed Simon Roy’s worldbuilding. There’s a certain griminess that pervades his work, a sense of things broken that adds

13 min read 2023-03-22 19:00:12

Buddy Saunders on his 74th birthday. There is something more than a little improbable about MyComicShop.com. Look through the ad pages of any comic

17 min read 2023-03-21 18:00:15

When Julie Doucet was selected as president of the 50th edition of the Angoulême Comics Festival in 2022, the announcement included news that the

17 min read 2023-03-21 18:00:15

When Julie Doucet was selected as president of the 50th edition of the Angoulême Comics Festival in 2022, the announcement included news that the

4 min read 2023-03-21 18:00:08

*CONTAINS SPOILERS* There’s a certain moment in the Radiohead song “You and Whose Army?” where the brooding atmosphere of the beginning