comics journal Archives

First Spider-Man Black Costume Appearance, Comics Journal #85 at $300
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,[...]
Monday Runaround – Vote Klingon
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[...]
In Defence Of Flex
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,[...]
When Maurice Sendak Wanted To Blow Up President Bush
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[...]
Thursday Trending Topics: Big Barda
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[...]