The Comics Journal

We’d like to thank tcj.com readers for their patience during the bumpy first couple of months of our expansion. It’s been a steep learning curve and we’re still making our way down the list of bugs that need ironing out. We're aware, of course, of the viral critiques that have popped up recently, which run the usual gamut from serious, well-intentioned, and productive to snide, resentful, and supercilious, but rather than take the time to respond to each and every one, we need to focus on fixing the technical shortcomings and glitches, which is precisely what we're doing. There are plenty of things about the site that still need to be de-uglified and kicked into working order, but one new weapon we’re going to have in this continuing struggle is production assistant Tony Remple who will help with day-to-day postings, so that we will have more time to concentrate on developing new content and realizing our long-term editorial plans. Cosmetic shortcomings and functional glitches aside, we set our sights very high and some of the major initiatives we had planned are going to need further tinkering before we’re satisfied that they’re ready to be unveiled. For example, we don’t want to fully launch a regular news posting until we know we can deliver the kind of regular, in-depth journalism that has long been missing from the Internet’s coverage of the comics field. Our primary aim, however, was to channel the range of thoughtful, confrontational, probing voices that make up The Comics Journal into a site that is true to the magazine’s sensibilities and unlike any other place on the Web. We wanted to take both the magazine and Internet comics coverage places they’ve never been before, and that is a goal that we are proud to see taking clearer and clearer shape every day. We want to reassure readers that we are aware that there are technical, navigational, and other problems with the website, and that we are working nearly 24 hours a day to fix them. Rest assured that we’re just getting started. One day, not only will this all look prettier and be better navigable, but we have some ambitious features in the works that are going to shock and amaze you.