Comics Journal Magazine

2 days ago | tcj.com | John Kelly

A memory of Mark that comes to mind is a fairly recent though trivial one, but it kinda captures "him." A little background: Most of us who were Seattleites at any given time-homegrown like myself or one-time transplants like Mark-have a deep affection and an affinity for Seattle's beloved, fast-food restaurant chain, "Dick's Drive In." An unapologetically stuck-in-time holdover from the late-1950s.

1 week ago | tcj.com | Zach Rabiroff

If an artist can be measured in part by their capacity to look truth squarely in the eye without flinching, let it be said that Joe Sacco is an artist. For more than three decades, Sacco has been perhaps the most prominent and influential cartoonist-journalist in comics. His Palestine, published in 1993, was a probing and ambivalent first-hand report on a people and place trapped in a cycle of war and repression.

1 week ago | tcj.com | John Kelly

Regardless of his Connecticut upbringing, John Peck was a particularly Rhode Island personality, educated by its premiere institution of higher learning - Brown University - and nurtured by the state's outré counter-culture, epitomized by the artists and creators who emerged from our other collegiate gem on Providence's East Side, the Rhode Island School of Design, which helped develop generations of quirky talents, including David Byrne and his band, the Talking Heads, film director Gus Van...

1 week ago | tcj.com | Brigid Alverson

It's been another dramatic week in the ongoing saga of the Diamond bankruptcy, with the original purchaser, Alliance Entertainment, dropping its offer and suing Diamond alleging, among other things, fraud and breach of contract, and Diamond making a quick pivot to sell to the backup bidders. The bottom line: Diamond will be sold to two bidders, the Canadian distributor Universal Distribution and Ad Populum, the parent company of collectible maker NECA and its subsidiary, WizKids.

2 weeks ago | tcj.com | Rob Clough

Welcome back to High-Low, a column that originated at TCJ.com in December of 2009. It was originally about mini-comics and small-press comics publishers, but since RJ Casey has the mini-comics part of things covered with his monthly column, I thought I'd focus on the output of specific small presses.