Zach Rabiroff

2 weeks ago | tcj.com | Zach Rabiroff

On a November night in 1995, on the steps of city hall in Tel Aviv, two bullets struck Yitzhak Rabin at close range, fatally injuring the sitting Prime Minister of Israel. Rabin had been leaving a peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords, the landmark agreements he had begun brokering with Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat two years earlier to end the 50 year span of occupations and insurgencies that had persisted since the Nakba of 1948.

Jan 15, 2025 | tcj.com | Zach Rabiroff

On the evening of Jan. 3, 2025, a vanishingly rare event occurred in the annals of journalism: a cartoonist made the news. For the previous two months, since the election of Donald Trump to a second tenure as President of the United States, the headlines had been filled by the steady drip of media and technology barons paying physical and financial homage to the incoming president. On Nov.

Dec 10, 2024 | tcj.com | Zach Rabiroff

When Marc Arsenault of Wow Cool Alternative Comics contacted my editors at the Comics Journal, I expected something on the order of a typical Retail Therapy column. Wow Cool had recently been experiencing some tough financial circumstances, Arsenault said, and was gearing up to I really should have known better. The conversation with Arsenault turned out to be anything but typical, but then, so was Marc Arsenault.

Oct 25, 2024 | tcj.com | Zach Rabiroff

Someone looking at Brooklyn's Desert Island Comics from the outside could be forgiven for squinting skeptically. The Williamsburg-based shop has, since its founding in 2008, seemed to have sprung from the cultural ethos of the place in which it's located. Founder Gabe Fowler came from a dual background as a regular at punk rock shows and an art gallery employee - a rich brew for the sort of upscale hipster iconoclasm that has become synonymous with the north Brooklyn neighborhood.

Oct 20, 2024 | tcj.com | Zach Rabiroff

That this future, and all of Mireault's futures, are confined to the realm of the hypothetical is now a tragic fact. On Sept. 2, 2024, Bernie Mireault died at age 64. His death, announced in a Facebook post by his lifelong friend and fellow comics artist Howard Chackowicz, revealed the cause to be suicide.