Tegan O'Neil gets a Sunday visit from the spirit of Oliver Schrauwen Present to pontificate one the nature of a long read and how we spend our time- hey, who ate all the Takis? The post No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused: Olivier Schrauwen’s imagined Sunday appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

Marc Arsenault talks to Zach Rabiroff about Wow Cool and his storied career in comics, bookselling, publishing, and chatting up customers at the only newsstand in Hudson County. The post ‘I don’t really like narrative’: A conversation with Wow Cool’s Marc Arsenault appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

As the title reveals, nothing is as straightforward as it seems, as people and history are combinations — amalgams — of a wide variety of ideas, behaviors, and backgrounds. The post Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

When Sebastiana Blank wakes up in the hospital, about a third of the way into 1949, she cannot speak English and does not understand her surroundings. She is the best detective in the biz — except she's not. Not really. This is a pivotal moment in Dustin Weaver's recent standalone volume from Image Comics, originally... Read more » The post 1949 appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

Shelly Bond is a force of nature, her massive energy just as apparent in her conversation as it is in the abundant flow of information that makes up her two illustrated illustrative volumes of memoir and editing tips: Filth & Grammar: The Comic Book Editor’s Secret Handbook and Fast Times In Comic Book Editing. Once... Read more » The post ‘Screw the industry, we’re in it for the art form’: An interview with Shelly and Philip Bond appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

Clark is collating this week’s links with a classic bit of (northern hemisphere) winter ennui. The post If We Make It Through December – This Week’s Links appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

William Schwartz takes a look at the dos and don'ts in Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 1. The post Pretty privilege: The stunning and troublesome <i>Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 1</i> appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

When thinking about Dutch comics, what immediately jumps to my mind is Janwillem van de Wetering. That's not because he's a more prominent personality in the field than, say, Joost Swarte – arguably the most well-known player in Netherlandic comics overseas and elsewhere – but with Murder By Remote Control in 1986 van de Wetering... Read more » The post Iris: A Novel for Viewers appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

With the series wrapping up its hit ten-year-run, Shaenon Garrity cracks open some covers to analyze how MHA worked so well. The post My Hero Academia and the Agony of Victory appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more

Craig Thompson talks to Fredrik Strömberg about his evolving past and future works and selves . The post ‘For me, it’s always exploratory’: Discussions with Craig Thompson appeared first on The Comics Journal ..read more