The Cartoonist doc to air on PBS stations
The Boneville blogs reports that The Cartoonist will be airing on some PBS TV stations over the next few weeks. The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE and the Changing Face of Comics is a documentary...
18 days of Christmas: R.O. Blechman
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This animation style was hugely influential in the '60s. Art directed by Gene Dietch. Via the D&Q blog.
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Google honors Segar
Google is doing one of its birthday tributes to E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye. It's the 115th anniversary of Segar's birth. The Guardian has a nice profile:
Popeye the Sailor – who famously attributed...
News, notes, and photos from Brooklyn
As we walked around the room at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Saturday, we asked folks what was coming up for 2010 and got a few newsy notes
Perhaps the biggest news...
The Fiffe Files: Marcos Martin
by Michel Fiffe
Marcos Martin is one of the few modern cartoonists whose work I unconditionally follow. Although his art style is compelling and stripped of pretentions, it is Martin’s...
Can Stately BEAT Manor survive June 12?
In case you missed the just-concluded World Cup Draw, the US and England ended up in the same group and will play each other on June 12th in South Africa. Will there be a...
YES!! Kenneth Smith blogs!
One of the print world's proudest traditions has finally come online as Kenneth Smith has begun to blog at TCJ.com with a breezy little squib called Privatism, Idiotism, “Atomism”: Modern Isolationism. A philosopher/artist who...
The Marvels of Dubai
Concept art by Chimera Design from the long-planned Dubai World Marvel Super Heroes Theme Park is making the rounds, and its pretty jaw-dropping. While Dubai's role as the crazy and wasteful oasis of surreal...
HABIBI progresses
With ASTERIOS POLYP, and Crumb's GENESIS finally, FINALLY published and in our hands, and Joe Sacco's FOOTSTEPS IN GAZA galleys making the rounds, it may be that Craig Thompson's HABIBI is now the Godot...
Thinking a little bit more about the new TCJ.com
Aside from our gladsomeness that such a thing exists, and keeping in mind that it is still very much a beta undertaking, after barely 24 hours, we had a few more thoughts on the...
Let’s rap with Carmine Infantino: Great Comics Surveys of the Past
Beat pal Robert Simpson saw our post on comics surveys and was inspired to recall comics reader surveys of the past. DC Comics surveyed their readers in both 1970 and 1978 -- possibly...
New TCJ.COM in previews
The new, online version of The Comics Journal is in beta testing today, and, in accordance with the evolution of early 21st century media outlets, it looks mostly like a blog. But a blog...
