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R&R: It’s The Hoodoodad or the highway! Lewis Trondheim’s 90s Masterstroke
b2b: Bart Hulley on The Hoodoodad by Lewis Trondheim, previously reviewed in TCJ #201 by Bart Beaty.
Charity Begins at Home: Hello How Are You, Tillie Walden?
In her surprising new domestic biography, Charity & Sylvia, YA wunderkind Tillie Walden makes her adult comics debut with the unlikely love story of two queer women building a life together in 1800s Vermont.
Revving at Full Throttle — This Week’s Links
Within this post lies … more postings about comics.
R&R: Nos Qui Morituri
I’M NOT LOCKED UP IN HERE WITH YOU. YOU’RE LOCKED UP IN HERE WITH ME.
The peculiarly logical webcomics of Øyvind Thorsby
Thorsby’s alien worlds and creatures do not exist for their own wacky sake. His stories align on two highly specific axis: Elaborate explanations of evolutionary biology, and classical farces based on this biology, often in the style of Oscar Wilde.
R&R: Found Family at the End of the World: A Rachel Pollack Doom Patrol Retrospective
There is a long and rich history of trans women in comics, but that history becomes far shorter when applied solely to superhero books. Writing a comprehensive list of all the trans women who have worked big two capes comics wouldn’t take very long. Which makes Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol, which began in 1993 and… Read more »
‘Survival is Aspirational’: An Interview with Katie Skelly
The promotional copy for Katie Skelly’s graphic novel, Heaven, informs us that the new book is Skelly’s first outing in six years. In other words, it tells us: Katie Skelly is back. Of course, to those following, Skelly has never, strictly speaking, gone away — in the last six years she has launched her own… Read more »
Let’s Not, But Say We Did — This Week’s Links
Time must be spent thanking July for its service once more.
Stefanie Cragg: Invisible Queen of Media
“She never used pencils, but inked straight onto a blank page using only thumbnails as a reference. Cragg was as meticulous as she was stubborn; if a mistake was made, she would often toss out the entire page and start again.”
20 Questions with Brad Neely: ‘I’m always trying to figure out, is a horse just like a dog?’
Brad Neely warms hearts, draws horses, soothes with a balm of laughter, interviewed by Sally Madden.
R&R: A Rebound Relationship with Moon Mullins
Moon Mullins becomes a problematic favorite for Jean Marc Ah-Sen
Will Franz, Conscientious Writer (1950-2026)
Will Franz, 1950-2026: “If you want to go to war after reading one of my stories, then I didn’t do my job.”
The Rocket Ships of La Jolla — This Week’s Links
Summertime and the living is hot, just constantly hot and humid and sticky.
Heartaches: Bizarro-Wuxtry, The Remarkable Athens Comic Shop, is Up For Sale
The most wonderful comic shop I’ve ever seen, Bizarro-Wuxtry in Athens, Ga is for sale, Robert Newsome gives thanks.
R&R: The Stars My Destination might not be comics exactly, but it’s still great
Tom Shapira considers what might have been in comics with a look at Byron Preiss and Howard Chaykin neglected adaptation.
RIP Jerry Moriarty — 1938-2026
“Jerry was Jerry. He was different, you know?” — Fred Moriarty, talking about his brother Jerry
R&R: Get up — Schrauwen’s Sunday and Joyce’s Ulysses, revisited
Greg Hunter takes a second look at Olivier Schrawen’s most recent graphic novel, how it’s been compared to Joyce, and how it should actually be compared.
Pat Oliphant: The quiet man with the loud drawings
David Apatoff offers a remembrance of the legendary editorial cartoonist.
R&R: A Glass of Water for Adam the Gardener
Malcy Duff and The Uncertain Man on Adam the Gardener by Cyril Cowell and Morley Adams, part of our continuing Rebuttals & Regrets series to celebrate the first 50 years of The Comics Journal.
Arrivals and Departures — July 2026
RJ Casey reviews his 11,667th zine, gets into the drunky grit. Why can’t you be more like your older brother?
R&R: Clown Logic: The Crow Nears Forty
Rebuttals & Regrets: Looking back at James O’ Barr’s The Crow through Anya Davidson’s response to Ng Suat Tong’s Violence is Good, Says The Crow (TCJ #143,1994).
