The Comics Journal

At HU, James Romberger discusses the late horror work of Alex Toth.

At HU, Erica Friedman discusses Silent Mobius, a sci-fi manga series in which female characters talk to each other about something other than men.

At HU, Matthias continues our roundtable on Charles Hatfield’s book Alternative Comics by questioning Hatfield’s focus on the literariness of comics.

At HU, in an interlude from our Charles Hatfield roundtable, Ng Suat Tong discusses Gilbert Hernandez’s Human Diastrophism, and the perils and pleasures of reviewing books you haven’t read. (Note that Suat has read the work in question.)

At HU, Derik Badman talks about some of the formal issues addressed in Charles Hatfield’s Alternative Comics.…

At HU, Caroline Small continues our discussion of Charles Hatfield’s book Alternative Comics by looking at how Hatfield’s theories about autobiographical comics fit the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb.

At HU, we’re having a roundtable this week on Charles Hatfield’s book Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature. I start things off by arguing that Charles’ interest in comics form causes him to overlook some problems with the work of Bill Watterson and Gilbert Hernandez.

At HU, Alex Buchet looks back at his experiences as a very (very) indie comics artist in 70s Britain.

At HU, critic Robert Boyd has several long, thoughtful comments about the visual art and comics art market. Start at the link and scroll down for more.…

At HU, guest poster Jones, One of the Jones Boys starts a two-part discussion about visual aliens: characters drawn in a different style from everything else around them.