Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked
By Tom Spurgeon * this is one of those with a bunch of scattered publishing news, all over the place. So why not start with an "off the beaten path"-style post about a new comic book out there for...
View ArticleLe Soir: Katz Publisher Agrees To Destroy Remaining Copies
Citing a lack of ability to contest the legal actions taken against it by the French-language publisher of Maus, the makers of Katz, a recent effort where Art Spiegelman's famous comics work was...
View ArticleGo, Read: Jog On Various 1980 Issues Of Metal Hurlant
One of the regular pleasures of the comics Internet is the weekly New Comics Report at TCJ from the critic Joe "Jog" McCulloch. What makes it fun and worth checking out with regularity is that...
View ArticleDale Yarger, RIP
Dale Yarger was the primary art director at Fantagraphics during that company's first big push into doing books, and was also responsible for design on The Comics Journal in the early to mid-1990s. If...
View ArticleThree Comics Characters And Their Creators
* The character Black Jack (Kuro Hazama) was created by Osamu Tezuka. ***** * The character Scratch Fury: Destroyer Of Worlds was created by Scott Kurtz. ***** * The character Shang-Chi was created by...
View ArticleComics' Giving Heart -- Projects, People In Need Of Funding
* Raighne Hogan's Little Heart project on behalf of marriage equality is moving into the last days of its Kickstarter program and is still a long ways off from meeting its goal. There are a ton of...
View ArticleThis Isn't A Library: Notable Releases To The Comics Direct Market
Here are the books that make an impression on me staring at this week's no-doubt largely accurate list of books shipping from Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. to comic book and hobby shops across...
View ArticleTony Auth Leaving The Philadelphia Inquirer
There aren't three other editorial cartoonist staff position changes possible that would be bigger than Tony Auth leaving the Philadelphia Inquirer, the latest in an ongoing, multi-year run of...
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