Tegan O'Neil

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No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused: Olivier Schrauwen's imagined Sunday

Dec 11, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

Oliver Schrauwen came to visit the other day. He arrived in a small box left on the stoop. After inviting him in, I was surprised to discover he was larger than anticipated. Large enough to displace my cat, which he did as I set him on the table next to my chair where the cat often rests. It is a singular advantage of the medium that a particularly large graphic novel - oh, there's that term! I hate that term, I really do.
Maria Llovet's effortless line: glimpsing Crave and the Direct Market

Nov 7, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

To begin it must be said, at the risk of stating the obvious, I remain perpetually distracted by the depiction of female beauty in comic books. To which certainly, you nod your head in weary resignation. Honesty brings you to strange places. That's the theme of the book we're looking at today, released monthly from Image comics from fall through spring beginning in late 2023. The product of a rather singular artist on the scene, Maria Llovet.
Godzilla: War for Humanity

Sep 12, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

Let us now speak on Godzilla. One of the great lizards - perhaps the greatest of all the lizards? Your friend and mine. The big guy has had a good few years. You don't need me to point that out to you. But for the sake of the record, not only have the most recent Japanese Godzilla features been critically acclaimed and internationally popular, but the American Godzilla movies of recent vintage have also proven enduringly popular, if perhaps not quite so critically acclaimed.
Blessed Be - The Comics Journal

May 29, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

If you've never encountered Doofus! Well, that's not completely surprising, truth be told. My man has been long absent from these climes. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Doofus is about the most wretched human being you can imagine while also retaining the appearance of one of the least threatening. He's the center of his overheated world, a generally good natured fool who is also an absolute panty-sniffing pervert who remains a virgin out of misanthropic principle.
Self Esteem and the End of the World

May 9, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

One must, it is to be supposed, admire a book so dogged in illustrating the adventures of a thoroughly unlikeable human being. It is an especial marvel to find that book, at least in some fashion, a roman à clef, concerned with tracing the arc of a simulacrum homunculus through a landscape of thinly veiled autobiographical humiliations. However, it also remains a fact that comics has never boasted a shortage of sick freaks.
Meanwhile, 40 Years Later...

Apr 25, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

It has of recent days fallen in my way to revisit the pages of Frank Miller's Ronin, both the influential original and the freshly minted sequel. The former was printed over the course of a year, bridging the spring of 1983 and 1984, with the latter from November of 2022 through to late winter 2024, both six issues long.
Somna #1-3 - The Comics Journal

Apr 12, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

DSTLRY is the name of the company - that's all caps and no vowels, like it's 1999 and Bobby Gillespie is singing about how much the 21st century is going to suck. I don't always pay attention to the new publisher announcements, I must admit. It's hard to get attached to the poor dears. Such a volatile business, with a steep mortality rate. So many lambs to the slaughter. But once the books are out in the world a publisher rises or falls on the merit of the stories themselves.
Junior Baker the Righteous Faker #1-5

Mar 28, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

Well, now - perhaps a few words on Joe Casey? Is that something people might like? I've spent a fair amount of time discussing Joe Casey, over the years. Not as much as some. He's got a voice as a writer. A really strong voice, even as he's an extraordinarily potent collaborator. Writes a different kind of comic for every kind of artist he works with. That's a rare skill in this industry. Artists seem to like working with him, inasmuch as he's always been able to get good people to draw his stories.
Fielder #2 - The Comics Journal

Mar 14, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

So, I'm sorry, what was I saying? Ah, yes, Kevin Huizenga. Easy enough for the mind to wander, these days. After conducting a mental inventory it occurs to me it has been many years since my first reflections on the subject - some two decades ago, if memory serves me well. Ah, yes, Kevin Huizenga. I knew him well. A fellow of infinite digression. We're looking at Fielder #2, which came out towards the end of last year but just recently found its way to my house.
Penthouse Comics #1 - The Comics Journal

Mar 7, 2024 | tcj.com | Tegan O'Neil

Upon hearing the news, current as of May 1816, of the order's restoration by Pope Pius VII, John Adams remarked in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, "I do not like the late Resurrection of the Jesuits.... If ever any Congregation of Men could merit, eternal Perdition on Earth and in Hell... it is this Company of Loiola.