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Rob Clough concluded his look at Drawn & Quarterly’s reprints of classic comic books and strips with Doug Wright’s Nipper (1963-1964). Geoff Johns talked to Nathan Wilson about his craft and...
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Gerhard speaks: an epic interview on the craft behind Cerebus; Matthias Wivel attends the mammoth Moebius retrospective in Paris; Rob Clough begins a series on comics as poetry and reviews The...
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Sean Michael Robinson: The Craft Behind Cerebus: An Interview with Gerhard...
Sean Michael Robinson: “ Gerhard at his drawing board, the same one he’s been using for 30 years.” He’s soft spoken, self-effacing. Thoughtful. He worked on almost 5,000 pages over 20 years, but in the...
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Rob Clough’s series on Comics as Poetry, Part One, Part Two. Mathhias Wivel took in the Moebius exhibit. Sean Michael Robinson interviewed Cerebus‘ Gerhard gave about craft and technique: Part One,...
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Shaun Partridge and Josh Simmons talk about The White Rhinoceros and getting arrested at a David Cassidy concert. John Ridgway talks about his four decades in comics, from Commando and Doctor Who to...
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David Roberston: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part One of Two)
John Ridgway’s art confused me when I was a child. His old-school, scratchy ink lines look almost as if they are not strong enough to support the characters and environments they portray, as if they...
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David Robertson: An Interview with John Ridgway (Part Two of Two)
Previously: Part One. Click to view larger images. DAVID ROBERTSON: You said earlier that 2000 AD’s attitude to you around the early/mid ’80s was that you’d have to prove yourself able to work for...
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The Black Panel SDCC ’08, feat. Dwayne McDuffie, Method Man, Faith...
In the event of comics creator Dwayne McDuffie’s passing, tcj.com is posting the Black Panel from the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con from its audio archives. Fellow panel participants were rapper Method...
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Son of Only in the Comics: What Cartooning Can Do That No Other Medium Can by...
The all-time champion comic strip for continually contriving comedy in ways that can be achieved only in the comic-strip form is Zits, the collaboration of Jerry Scott, who mostly “writes” it, and Jim...
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Grim and Gritty: Freewheel, Volume 2
Rob reviews the second collection of Liz Baillie’s webcomic, Freewheel. Liz Baillie’s ongoing webcomic Freewheel can best be described as a slice-of-life fantasy. Volume 1 of the series (collecting...
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