Surprise! In an announcement at CBR yesterday that flew way under the radar, it was announced The Comics Journal is returning to print.
TCJ stopped operating as a magazine back in 2011, but it’s coming back with issue #303 in January. RJ Casey and Kristy Valenti will be editing. Gary Groth will be doing his signature interviews. Fantagraphics is planning on publishing two issues per year, with #304 scheduled for June 2019.
TCJ.com will continue to operate as normal, separately from the print edition.
Todd Allen wears a lot of hats. At various times he’s been (alphabetically), a bouncer, college professor, humor columnist, Internet producer and an NBA/WNBA Beat Writer, among other things. He’s the author of Economics of Digital Comics. You should probably read it.
YES!!! This is excellent news!!
I just wish they would bring Dirk Deppe back….
TCJ really should be published at least six times per year and have huge NewsWatch and Blood & Thunder sections.
And, oh, geez, I just realized that this means that I have to dig into my large to-read stack (more like to-read boxes, ’cause there’s about 8 of them) and finally read #302. Those two doorstop issues, #301 and 302, weren’t exactly encouraging me to read them.