The Comics Journal

Summer looms, thanking spring for its service, and so we head deep into the heart of convention season, hacking away at the overgrowth to uncover this year’s comic-con bingo card, and then waiting, dabber pen in hand, poised to see which square will be marked off first — announcement of a new digital comics platform that is entirely comprised of tech-company buzzwords, ...

Hanna and The Hells vs. The Beatles  (Floating World Comics) by Sam Ashurst and Tony M. Clarke, 36 pages

A midnight movie in comics form, this irreverent, humorous and heartfelt comic book references so many comi...

 Tokyopop didn’t set out to be the publisher that got America hooked on shojo manga. Once upon a time, in the distant 1990s, it was Mixx Entertainment, an L.A. startup with lofty, if vague, ambitions to become a multimedia portal into Asian pop culture: video games, CD-Roms, even a website! But the project that took off was MixxZine, a manga magazine similar to Vi...

Nicole Hollander, creator of the beloved comic strip Sylvia passed away on April 23, 2026 at an assisted living facility in Chicago, just shy of her 87th birthday. Her international...

Mohammad Saba'aneh was on a book tour for his previous comic, Power Born of Dreams, when Israel invaded Gaza, a moment that became the opening scene for his latest graphic memoir. In this work he focuses more broadly, expanding the idea of prison that he wrote about previously to the land as a whole, seeing Palestine as just one more example of a prison. He moves back ...