The Comics Journal

There is likely no better entry-point to the world of emerging contemporary cartoonists than the anthology Cram. If you find the Tinfoil and Cowlick anthologies of Floyd Tangeman impenetrable, or Rust Belt Review dull as scissors that no longer cut, Cram has included work by Tangeman as well as Rust Belt highlight Audra St...

When Olivier Schrauwen’s collected Sunday arrived in 2024, comparisons to James Joyce’s Ulysses became an immediate critical cliché, appearing across multiple pieces. In following a Belgian font designer (and his inner monologue) through one misspent day, S...

Near the end of his long career, the cartoonist Pat Oliphant, who died on July 13 at the age of 90, gave a chalk talk to several hundred fans. He ...

We approach the spiritual halfway point of the comics year, the temporal midway marker having already been passed, as San Diego Comic-Con looms, Peckham’s turn at the comics-event plate having ended in success last weekend (related: volunteering at shows is great, I highly...

Reflections on a 1953 edition of Adam the Gardener by Cyril Cowell and Morley Adams with an accompanying comic strip, featuring The Uncertain Man, inspired by the work