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Archive for August, 2010
Readers, Get Your Quality Comic Coupons Right Here!
Posted by Bart Croonenborghs on August 27th, 2010 at 1:00 AMJournalista for Aug. 27, 2010: Baaaaaaa!
Posted by Dirk Deppey on August 27th, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Shueisha draws a loss ♦ Are you getting your proper royalties? ♦ more
Wonder Woman, Jealousy, and Nurse Fetishes
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on August 26th, 2010 at 7:32 AMAt HU, I write about Marston and Peter’s Wonder Woman #22. It’s not so great, unfortunately
Journalista for Aug. 26, 2010: I put down my pen
Posted by Dirk Deppey on August 26th, 2010 at 6:33 AMEiichiro Oda’s One Piece series sells 20 million copies in six months ♦ bookstores-in-pain round-up ♦ more
Best American Comics Criticism Roundtable: Why Didn’t You Just Strike For Higher Pay?
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on August 26th, 2010 at 2:43 AMI have to say, reading the first roundtable entries by Brian Doherty, Jeet Heer and Ben Schwartz in this roundtable, I was personally offended. Not because Schwartz spent much of his time insulting me — on the contrary, that was about the only enjoyment I got from his prose. Rather, I was offended because the posts were so frankly, egregiously, jaw-droppingly half-assed.
Best American Comics Criticism Roundtable: In Defense of BACC
Posted by Ben Schwartz on August 26th, 2010 at 2:40 AMMy response to Noah Berlatsky? I refer readers to my reply to his original BACC blog post. He only offers more personal attacks on me (adding “craven” and “toadying”), more of his painfully limited definition of all things literary, and adds a piece-by-piece and insulting dismissal of the individual authors collected therein.
Joe Matt reveals the Secret Origins of the You’re Short, Bald and Ugly Charlie Brown parody
Posted by admin on August 25th, 2010 at 10:22 PMJoe Matt responded to TCJ.com’s Facebook link to Garrity’s post “The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #8,” about a a mini he, Chester Brown and Seth created. He granted TCJ.com permission to repost it in its entirety on our website.
What Surrealist Poets Like
Posted by Tom Crippen on August 25th, 2010 at 9:12 AM
Jumble Wednesday: The gal and the witch; the angry wife and the moon; how people loved car radios in the 1930s
More Obscurism in Cartoons, Nos. 351-355
Posted by R.C. Harvey on August 25th, 2010 at 8:57 AMThis Time Because of Poor Rendering
1000 Years of Pretty Boys — NSFW
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on August 25th, 2010 at 6:55 AMIn a really quite NSFW essay, JR Brown provides a lengthy historical look at the tradition of bishonen and boy’s love in Japan.
TCJ Blogs
Top TCJ Stories
- Jason Shiga on Interactive Comics (with video)
- Hail The White Rhinoceros Part Three (of Three): Josh Simmons
- David Roberston: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part One of Two)
- Hail The White Rhinoceros Part One (of Three): Shaun Partridge
- The Strangest Pictures I Have Seen #13
- Sean Michael Robinson: The Craft Behind Cerebus: An Interview with Gerhard (Part One of Three)
- Moebius Above and Below
- The Passing Scene
- “I’ve Drawn Thousands of Comics”
- DICK LOCHER HANGS UP HIS FEDORA
TCJ International Blogs
- Belgium: Egypt, Country of Clay
- Latin America: The Co(s)mic Race: Blackface in Comics South of the Border (Part II)
- Italy: Ignatz Update 4: Interiorae #4
- Belgium: Going Underground in the Thirties
- Sweden: The New Serieteket
- Italy: A little mirror of comics in Italy / part 1
- Latin America: The Co(s)mic Race: Blackface in Comics South of the Border (Part 1)
- Belgium: The Girl and the Gorilla
- Belgium: When I Was 18, Uncle Sam Wanted Me to Fight Adolf
- Sweden: Moebius exhibition in Paris
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