Tucker Stone

was executive editor at Toon Books, was eisner winning editor of https://t.co/GiYC5um12P, still podcast and blogging at https://t.co/v2RtdvtU0l

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My Name Is Dylan Shingo

Apr 14, 2024 | factualopinion.com | Tucker Stone

After the break, check out the latest episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell with Tucker Stone, Joe McCulloch and Chris Mautner! On this episode, Tucker, Chris & Joe tackle the latest Kazuo Umezz books to make it to American shores: My Name Is Shingo! And that's not the only comic that came across the US Border under the microscope...they're also all about Batman, and his adventures with Italian mainstay, Dylan Dog.
Day Karting - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

Today at TCJ, we're reading Paul Karasik's extended look at the way Paco Roca uses the landscape format to assist and direct the storytelling in his graphic novel The House. Roca's storytelling and inventive use of the horizontal format - rarely chosen and even more rarely successful - is brilliant. He finds many ways to breakdown the unusual oblong proportion, none of them contrived, all of them supporting the story.
Expired Blog Titles - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

Good week coming at TCJ. More Ryan Holmberg, more Jog, more Tegan. A Cartoonist's Diary from Nathan Gelgud all week. Reviews. Etc. So far, we've heard from one former TCJ editor (Frank Young, September 91-93) talking to another former TCJ editor (Dan Nadel, 2011-2017) about a book published by another acronym, NYRC: .
Shary, Patrick, JP - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

This week at TCJ, we'll be taking multiple looks at one of the last "when the hell are they gonna reprint that" comics left: Shary Flenniken's Trots & Bonnie. To set this week's table, we're sharing the most extensive appetizer possible, Robert Boyd's interview with Flenniken, originally published back in 1991. As you can see in the comments from when this interview was first digitized in 2014, the demand for Flenniken's work has never waned. Well, it's finally here. Stay tuned for more this week.
Placeholder Quest - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

Today at TCJ, Paul Tumey is here with a look at The Pits of Hell by Ebisu Yoshikazu, which Breakdown Press put out last year. It's an excellent book, and Paul turns his entire Framed! column over to going after why. I have a new love: The Pits of Hell by Ebisu Yoshikazu.
Get You One - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

It's day three for Nathan Gelgud on Diary duty-today, he's grappling with what the pandemic is doing to his upcoming freelance gigs by reading a book. Today, Helen Chazan goes long on the work of Kuniko Tsurita, whose comics have arrived via Drawn & Quarterly, Mitsuhiro Asakawa & Ryan Holmberg in the collection of The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud. Helen was originally going to review the book, but her piece expanded over the course of writing it.
Carel Moiseiwitsch, ASAP - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

Recently, artist, painter and activist Carel Moiseiwitsch lost her home, her art studio and all that it contained, as well as one of her cats in the recent Lytton fire in Canada. A few of her colleagues have set up a GoFundMe to assist her at this time of extraordinary need. Links are provided to the campaign.
The Virility Of Contempt

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

It's been a tumultuous week at TCJ, and we're still hammering the kinks out right now. But we're not dead, and there's some excellent pieces coming on Guts, Paper Girls, Bradley of Him, Rusty Brown and...there's a LOT. There's a lot! And we're hustling to get it up and running.
Eve Of The Fireball

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

Today, at TCJ, Matt Seneca is here with , the most recent issue of Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips long-running company-hopper of a book. Check it out, then circle back here for more TCJ updating:I was worried I'd be lost coming in so cold, but Brubaker's frequent, terse, and declarative narration pulls all the weight of situating readers comfortably in the middle of his story's action.
Jawbone - The Comics Journal

Jan 3, 2024 | tcj.com | Tucker Stone

It's Tuesday here at TCJ central, and we're charging forward with our week, which will see me returning to my birth state of Texas for the second time this year. I know you don't care: but these intro sentences need something for a focus, buster.