Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

The Comics Journal

Receive updates from The Comics Journal for free, starting right now.

We can deliver them by email, via your phone or you can read them from a personalised news page on follow.it.

This way you won't miss any new article from The Comics Journal. Unsubscribe at any time.

Site title: The Comics Journal

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  1.02 / day

Message History

Photo provided courtesy of Scott Dunbier.

The first time you would have seen Scott Dunbier’s name in the comics press (assuming you’re the sort of person who reads such things), it would have been in the form of a paid a...


Read full story

A quiet end to February, as the spring and summer convention seasons wait in the wings for the annual deluge of publication announcements and associated folderol, however, in the meantime, alongside this week’s links, below, there are leaves starting to bud on the trees outside, so the relative quiet should be enjoyed while it still lasts.

Exca...


Read full story
page from Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West by Bill Griffith

Like Charles Schulz, Will Eisner, or Jules Feiffer before him, the idea of retirement never seems to have occurred to Bill Griffith. At the age of 82, he continues to work on the daily Zippy strip, which remains as fresh and unique as ever after more than four decades, and has s...


Read full story
Angoulême in the distance, photograph by Lionel Allorge

The comics world held its breath as hundreds of artists, authors and even some publishers threatened to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival—Europe's premier comics gathering. The threat was stark: hundreds of empty signing tables, vacant panels, a festival stripped of its creators. The professionals’...


Read full story

In the autumn of 2025, Japanese illustrator and manga artist Hisashi Eguchi was accused of tracing a photograph of a woman without her consent for a public promotional image. The image was withdrawn, corporate collaborations were suspended, and the dispute was eventually res...


Read full story