The Comics Journal has a weblog!

Posted by Pete

Ever wondered what TCJ would be like if it was a weblog? Well, I hadn't, to be honest, but the launch of ?Journalista! is intriguing, especially if, like me, you don't really like their message board a whole lot.

The Comics Journal, America's most respected magazine of comics news and criticism, is pleased to announce the launch of Journalista!, its new daily weblog. Edited by TCJ.com webmaster Dirk Deppey, Journalista! covers the entire spectrum of the comics world, from the new breed of art comics to the children's comics for which the medium is best known, from comic strips to editorial cartooning to the latest experiments in online comics, plus business and technical aspects of the medium. Journalista! aims to be a source of thoughtful news and commentary, bypassing the uncritical press-release-driven news and hype-oriented interviews commonly found on most other comics-related news websites.

While the weblog officially launches today, it has in fact been in daily operation since October 13, 2002, running unlinked to the website in order to ensure that a good working standard of quality control can be assured on a daily basis. Thus, there are almost a week and a half of archives already online in addition to the five days' worth of posts on the Journalista! homepage.

3:51 PM |

Idler Jarvis

Posted by kookymojo

James Jarvis illustrates a poem in The Idler.

5:24 AM |

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Interviews galore

Posted by kookymojo

Go to twohandedman.com and peruse their interviews with Pete Bagge, Joe Matt, Rick Altergott and Dave Sim. [Thanks to GMT+9 for the original link to the Pete Bagge interview]

7:19 AM |

Tuesday, October 22, 2002

angst + safety-pin

Posted by kookymojo

"Staring at the TV, I was having one of those Charles Bukowski moments".

The lunchbox is cool, too. [Thanks, Charity]

8:42 AM |

Blog commentary in Doonesbury

Posted by kookymojo

Doonesbury's current storyline is about blogging. It started yesterday.

5:29 AM |

Saturday, October 19, 2002

Posted by Andrew Luke

An absolutely compelling interview with political cartoonist Ted Rall relating to his Asia visits, and an MP3 interview with the late William Gaines this month, over at TCJ Online.

5:56 AM |

Thursday, October 17, 2002

The Big Draw

Posted by kookymojo

Just spotted a banner for this on my way to Gosh!: The Big Draw at the British Museum.

attending the day’s events will be Felix Bennett, whose drawings have appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman and Erotic Review. Felix will be presenting a lecture about his work in caricature and his lecture will include filmed interviews with fellow caricaturists Steve Bell and Martin Rowson. Posy Simmonds will be giving a lunchtime lecture in the Clore Education Centre ‘Inventing People: Drawing Characters, Gemma and Friends’ based on some of her popular cartoon characters. Posy will be having a book signing session between 13.30 and 14.00.

Sounds like fun. Pity it clashes with the Lire en fête at the French Institute, really.

The Big Draw at the British Museum 19 October 2002, 10.30 – 17.00.

6:47 AM |

Monday, October 14, 2002

Going Cheep

Posted by kookymojo

How To Be Cheap by Joe Matt (fittingly, I swiped this from Scrubbles, because I'm too cheap to find my own links just now.)

9:22 AM |

Sunday, October 13, 2002

Posted by Dave

Paul Gravett informs us that... at the French Institute this coming Saturday, Oct 19th, from 11am, there's a day of free graphic novel/comics/BD events (plus some cinema screenings of animation and Bilal's movie Tykho Moon - sorry you have to pay a bit for those). As well as Hollywoodrow Patriverphoenix, there'll be David B, Vincent Vanoli, Jean-Paul Jennquin, Christopher, Dan Christensen, plus coming on down specially Nabiel Kanan and Metaphrog too!

11:29 AM |

Thursday, October 10, 2002

Manchester Comic-con this weekend

Posted by Pete

Colin Mathieson writes in...

Folk may care to note that there's a promising comic convention on in Manchester this coming Saturday 12th October at the University Refectory Building down on Oxford Road from 11 to 4.30 pm, entrance £3. Featuring comic, card & toy dealers and leading UK pros for sketches signings etc such as Charles Adlard, Disraeli, Ian Edginton, Glenn Fabry, Alan Grant, Staz Johnson, Kev Walker, Andi Watson, Phil Winslade, Steve Yeowell etc

In addition North West indie/small pressers will be represented by Deva (More Than We Seem, Science Friction) Comics, Engine (Engine Anthology, Rough Guide to Self Publishing) Comics, M56 (Zulu Water Cart Rescue, M56, A Rage To Live) Comics and Carl (Thrud The Barbarian) Critchlow all of whom will have tables as will Shane Chebsey and his Smallzone Distribution Service.

Come along and say hello.

My 2pence worth - this is worth supporting, even if you just turn up and hang about. Everything is in the south these days, or so it seems.

10:41 PM |

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Titans of Finance Crackdown on Corporate Crime rally

Posted by Pete

From an email: "On Friday, October 4, cartoonist Josh Neufeld took his comic book Titans of Finance, accompanied by cartoonist Dean Haspiel, down to Wall Street for Ralph Nader's "Crackdown on Corporate Crime Rally." Check out what happened (with photos) here with a report from Josh Neufeld."

2:45 PM |

Another gorgeous Art site

Posted by kookymojo

Tim Biskup does beeyootiful paintings of weird made-up creatures in wonderful colours. Imagine if he did comics. (via Boing Boing)

Speaking of comics, I promise I'll have some proper comic-related links later in the week.

6:38 AM |

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

New People Alert

Posted by Pete

I should have said this before they all tried it out, but we have new people on the blog. Normal service will hopefully resume at some point.

6:40 PM |

Posted by n0o0o0o

i worked out how to get a username oh n0o0o0o! tt

9:56 AM |

"Femmes fatales, dybbuks, caped crusaders, dancing bears and crocodiles"

Posted by kookymojo

Not strictly comics, but worthy of your attention. I've just discovered Marcel Dzama (via Excitement Machine), and he's great! Kinda reminiscent of Glen Baxter.

"Dzama's peaceable kingdom is a cheerfully noirish place, where knife-wielding femmes fatales, dybbuks, caped crusaders, anthropomorphic trees and clouds, dancing bears and crocodiles rollick together with lewd and murderous intent, the spawn of a culture whose parables and fables still illustrate the consequences of human folly. In this weird world, man, woman, child and beast are the same beneath the costume and the mask."

And he uses root beer in his paintings! Plus, from the same gallery as the first link, some pages from Raymond Pettibon.

6:32 AM |

Monday, October 07, 2002

Weblogs

Posted by Pete

The artist Paul J Holden has a weblog again, though he's not restricting it to comics this time. Nice to have his words back.

Cartoonists - do you have a weblog yet?

4:36 PM |

Bob Cobbing RIP

Posted by mooncat

It is with some sadness that we note the death of bob cobbing (Guarrdeyan obit)

2:32 PM |

Sunday, October 06, 2002

Posted by Leonie

Incase anyone has been trying to visit www.tgtokyo.com and is wondering where it is...that address in currently not working. you can get to the site via: www.angelfire.com/mt2/tgt. There should be some new stock and features going up next weekend.

8:02 AM |

Saturday, October 05, 2002

Posted by Pete

We finally have a comments system on BugPowder, so feel free to use it. You can also post links there. This is another stage in the long and arduous process of opening up this site to the entire small press community. Eventually I want it to resemble MetaFilter and if anyone out there has the time and ability to help get there sooner, do get in touch.

9:35 AM |

Friday, October 04, 2002

Posted by Pete

News from out there: GAIMAIN vs McFARLANE : Neil Wins On All Counts. See also Gaiman's blog.

3:34 PM |

Tuesday, October 01, 2002

Posted by kookymojo

Techy link of the week: ComicsML: A Simple Markup Language for Comics is a potentially useful coding tool for those of you who do your own online comics stuff. (Via Black Belt Jones)

2:38 AM |