comics journal Archives

He was managing partner of Bergen Street Comics, the fondly remembered comic book store in Brooklyn, and Editor of The Comics Journal, for Fantagraphics, for which he won an Eisner Award in 2018. Tucker Stone, courtesy of Fantagraphics He recently served as the President of USBBY, the US chapter of the International Board for Books for Young[...]

Zach Rabiroff posts, "I've said it before, but The Comics Journal #310 contains what is almost certainly the best thing that I will ever put to paper: an epic, novella-length history of Marvel Comics in the creative cauldron of Bill Jemas, Joe Quesada, and Ike Perlmutter Please order it." Well, that's how to get my[...]

The Comics Journal #85 is known for featuring the first appearance in print of Spider-Man in his new black costume But no one really considered it that much of a collectable But of late, that seems to have changed, with CGC slabbing copies of the magazine, published by Gary Groth at Fantagraphics back in 1983,[...]

FEMALE GAZE Heidi MacDonald attacks the Comics Journal's almost all-exclusive male credits and focus And does a little Gendercrunching on a number of issues. As you can see, R Crumb is so important that he gets not only a 200 page analysis in #301, but an extensive history of his lawyer, Albert Morse, in #302 Joe Sacco[...]

Thankfully we have people like Sean Rogers from The Comics Journal who opens his gob to be the condescending father figure we never had, to snatch our funnybooks from our hands, curl them up and slap us on the nose with them "What is this nonsense you're reading?" he says out of the corner of his mouth,[...]

The Comics Journal published at the end of the year, headlines with a final in depth interview between Maurice Sendak and Journal publisher Gary Groth. Here is a snippet Possibly the snippet. SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, "Be brave Tie a bomb to your shirt Insist on going to the White House And I wanna have[...]

No Wonder Woman or Rob Granito in trending topics for the first time in awhile, displaced in part by a pair of historical topics: Jim Shooter's account of the circumstances surrounding the infamous Marvel art theft, and the old old school Comics Journal Speaking of comics history, pretty cool to see TCJ getting their historical archives[...]