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Jason Bergman sits down with the Sunstone creator to talk about how the series came to be, as well as the numerous other projects he’s working on.
An earlier than usual linkblog this week, due to the impending federal holiday.
Clark Burscough | July 3, 2025
Wimmin’s Comix, Tits & Clits, and the feminist comics born outside the locked door to the little boy’s room.
Christina Lee | July 2, 2025
Silver Sprocket, the San Francisco-based publisher and retailer, currently finds itself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that is personally held by owner Avi Ehrlich, the Comics Journal has learned.
Zach Rabiroff and Tate McFadden | July 1, 2025
Dana Simpson interviewed by William Schwartz on the long-running Phoebe and Her Unicorn, the ladder up and down of optioning for the screen and trans representation.
William Schwartz | June 26, 2025
Absolutely no one should rely on comics to save the world and no one should rely on comics criticism to do anything but make you, personally, feel bad. Here’s this month’s column.
RJ Casey | June 25, 2025
A New Yorker cover by Chris Ware has a lot to say about a lot of things.
Ken Parille | June 24, 2025
Irene Velentzas sits down with the Insectopolis author to discuss his latest staggering feat of art, his revolutionary artistic perspective, and his robust five-decade career.
Irene Velentzas | June 23, 2025
A quieter period on the news front than there has otherwise been, of late, cooling down the weekly cycle as the weather in the northern hemisphere starts heating up, which is not to say that there are not still links to be had.
Clark Burscough | June 20, 2025
95 years go by so fast: Malcy Duff’s The 95 Year Old Character.
Malcy Duff | June 19, 2025
In this chapter essay, Shimizu applies his knowledge of pre-modern Japanese art and visual-textual books to what artistic works and traditions shaped the creation of the fifteen-volume Hokusai Manga book series.
Shimizu Isao | June 18, 2025
Helen Chazan reporting from transgender center of gravity at TCAF 2025.
Helen Chazan | June 17, 2025
It’s been a rocky transition for Diamond Comic Distributors, which was officially sold to the entity known as Sparkle Pop on May 15, and for the publishers and retailers who do business with them.
Brigid Alverson | June 16, 2025
A bad week for losing giants of other creative fields, and yet the world continues to turn, as it will do, and so comics news continues to be generated, as it will do, subsequently collated into a fresh set of this week’s links.
Clark Burscough | June 13, 2025
In this TCJ #311 excerpt, comics journalist Sarah Glidden spoke to cartoonist Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands) about adapting to an internet audience and where Beaton is going to go from here.
Sarah Glidden | June 10, 2025
In her first piece for the Journal, Kaoru Kumi dives down into the first few episodes of Toriyama’s seminal manga series to see why it works and how it lead to Dragon Ball.
Kaoru Kumi | June 9, 2025
R. Fiore returns to the Comics Journal to offer some thoughts on Robert Crumb, racism and this here life in Modern America.
R. Fiore | June 5, 2025
Valerio Stive remembers the late comics writer, novelist, screenwriter, actor, and singer-songwriter, who passed away back in January.
Valerio Stivé | June 4, 2025
Excerpted from The Comics Journal #311: Ben Juers wrote about Lettrists Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand and Roberto Altmann, and their theories.
The Editors | June 3, 2025
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