The Comics Journal

After an inaugural six weeks at tcj.com, The Panelists are moving to a site of our own: thepanelists.org. Thanks to all for your tremendous support and for great conversations during our launch, and we hope you follow us to our new home. All archives from the Panelists’ posts at tcj.com will also now be found at the new site (the guttergeek archives from tcj.com will be moved shortly to guttergeek.com).

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We’ll have a new post up at the new site tomorrow! Hope to see you there…

At the Panelists Alex reflects on last month’s demise of the Comics Code Authority (and the meaning and lack of meaning thereof).

A handful of Panelists consider their buying habits. Continuing a series on comic shops, periodical comic books, and change

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Craig works to drum up entries for our sadistic contest

Derik reads a one-page comic by Blaise Larmee

Isaac considers the challenges of archiving mini-comics

Craig chews on the charms of Jonah Hex

& highlights some of his favorite stories

Finally, in our ongoing “Off-panel” feature, Patricia Highsmith’s secret identity as a comics-writer is unmasked

Craig on the bloody virtues of DC’s JONAH HEX comic.

Isaac consults with a professional comics librarian to find a solution to the problem of three big boxes of minicomics.

Derik starts an irregular series of One-Page Criticisms looking at a single page comic by Blaise Larmee.

At The Panelists today, Charles adds some wrinkles to last week’s Killhoffer post, Derik considers how we are able to judge a book by its panel, and Craig makes a case for continuities in Clowes’ career pre- and post-Ghost World.

Picking up our round two of working with single panels, I return to Power Girl and happily cannot make sense of the rules governing time and space (or basic anatomy).

At the Panelists, I continue our ongoing single-panel jam session by thinking about a single panel that is not a single panel and wondering where the apparitions begin (and will they ever end?)