Monthly Archives: September 2007

These are some illustrations that didn’t make it into the Art Young gallery that ran in TCJ a while back. I found the ones below in a best of collection of Young’s work published in 1936. I’m not sure exactly … Continue reading →

I’m reprinting here the essay on socialist cartoonist Art Young which ran in TCJ 273. I lack the technical expertise for footnote capabilities, so the relevent source info is sprinkled throughout rather than referenced with tiny numbers. I’ve also edited … Continue reading →

This is a pretty amusing take on my back and forth with T. Hodler. Read it through and then ask yourself, what’s missing? The commentators, of course, take me to task for liking Johnny Ryan and Fort Thunder. But the … Continue reading →

I’ve got a couple of things published this week. Two pieces in the new Comics Journal, one about the gay-love cooking manga “Antique Bakery” and a short blurb about Dirk Tiede’s manga-like horror/cop-drama Paradigm Shift. And a rant/poem/whatever up on … Continue reading →

This is from one of the first comics I remember reading (and I think I actually read it in England, where it was reproduced in black and white….) I’d always assumed it was drawn by John Byrne, but apparently its … Continue reading →

I had originally hoped to do this blog with my friend, mentor, and sometime collaborator Bert Stabler. Alas, he doesn’t have the time at the moment. Nonetheless, he’s agreed to let me post some of his reviews if I don’t … Continue reading →

T. Hodler takes me to task in this post for various things. Most of them stem from a lack of clarity on my part, I think, and on Hodler’s assuming that I’m saying the same thing as several other folks … Continue reading →