THE COMICS JOURNALさんのイラストまとめ

Today on the site, Aidan Lee examines a few of those popular infinite canvas comics colloquially known as webtoons (such as Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus, pictured here), and how they make for an often-bumpy adaptation to the tight confines of print books. https://t.co/OEyte15gkZ

André Valente @andrevalente continues A Cartoonist’s Diary with bravura slapstick on washing day, and a trip to his mind palace. https://t.co/9GwDQnFX40

Brace yourself for a career-spanner today, as Alex Dueben @alexdueben interviews Rachel Pollack: award-winning novelist, Tarot expert, and writer of some of the most striking Vertigo comics of the ‘90s, including a soon-to-be reprinted run on Doom Patrol. https://t.co/0eyzDp3s8m

Evheny Osievsky, a PhD student in Ukraine, was reading Watchmen in February. Today, he presents an account of the martial aggression & nuclear dreams booming behind the human story of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons classic: reading Watchmen in Kyiv, in 2022. https://t.co/g6DCGVMoTx

Brian Nicholson reviews Metax, the new graphic novel from Antoine Cossé, who drastically downplays the primacy of characters in favor of landscape and environment: “When something happens, it emerges from an overture of shapes, and then dissolves again.” https://t.co/AW3atfbP98

Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow reviews The Montague Twins: The Devil’s Music, the ‘60s-set new installment of a YA graphic novel series from Nathan Page & Drew Shannon with a special focus on depression’s impact on teens. https://t.co/HGcjvDmCgn

TCJ all-star Bob Levin examines A Cartoonist’s Sketchbook, collecting art by the ‘70s-era underground cartoonist George Hansen; sued on behalf of Robert Crumb and divisive in the scene, Hansen is duly profiled in Levin’s signature style. https://t.co/OdxYzhaTYa

The film critic Chris Ready @TheManFrowns makes his TCJ debut with a detailed look at Fist of the North Star, an ‘80s favorite in the midst of a deluxe reissue, with special attention paid to how creators Buronson & Tetsuo Hara distinguish virtue and vice. https://t.co/wohL1Tq8un

A mere 30 years after our first interview, Jason Bergman catches up with Xenozoic Tales creator Mark Schultz, who’s seen the whole life of the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs franchise, and is now the writer of Prince Valiant. And he’s not done with illustration. https://t.co/eS7Z1s3XmN

“One of the joys of comics is that you can make them about pretty much anything.” So remarks Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce in today’s review of Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball, a new informational comic by Jon Chad from First Second. https://t.co/WoDn2GBcg5