comicbookresources.com - 10/31/2009
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In light of news that the acclaimed source of comics news & criticism will be shifting format to a web-heavy presentation with semi-annual book issues, CBR speaks with the magazine's editorial to find out why now is the time for a new TCJ.
comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com - 11/2/2009
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The Comics Journal , as I noted in
an earlier posting, needs to re-invent itself to make...
it relevant for the new era we’re in, a period where there is a much greater public interest in comics combined with a much more fragmented discourse about comics ...
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What the Comics Journal Does Right
pwbeat.publishersweekly.com - 10/29/2009
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Starting with a letter to subcribers which Tom
Spurgeon unveiled, today’s it’s being announced that The Comics...
Journal, which is about to release it’s gala 300th print edition, is going to change its presentation drastically, with ...
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Comics Journal to beef up online presence
hoodedutilitarian.blogspot.com - 11/3/2009
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Jeet Heer over at Comics Comics explains what
he hopes will happen with the revamped comics journal:...
In terms of the print magazine, my strong sense is that the Comics Journal has always been strongest when Gary Groth has been most involved with it: ...
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HU Is Moving to TCJ.Com
The Hooded Utilitarian —
Gary Groth let the cat out of the bag over at Comic Book Resources, so wanted to mention it to our readers as well. We're going to be moving the Hooded Utilitarian over to the ...
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In a must-read interview at Comic Book Resources, Kiel Phegley talks to the entire editorial staff of The Comics Journal (Mike Dean, Kristy Valenti and el jefe Gary Groth) about the future print and online iterations of the magazine as outlined in our announcement earlier this week. It's quite the scoop, and juicy details and revelations abound!
More of The Comics JOurnal’s evolution
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Busy Kiel Phegley talks to Gary Groth, Michael Dean and Kristy Valenti about the digital future of The Comics Journal. Among the very good news: Shaenon Garrity, Robert Clough, and the Hooded Utalitraisn gang of Noah Berlatsky and Ng Suat Tong will be contributing, as will R. Fiore and Kenneth Smith. Groth has more on the overall vision:
Groth: I see this is an opportunity to create a true web version of “The Comics Journal,” to in effect combine the virtues of both the web and print as I understand them, which is to say, a single “place” ...
Thin wallets, fat bookshelves: A publishing news round-up
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
Polly and Her Pals
• IDW announced over the weekend that it will be collecting the Sunday strips from the Cliff Sterrett classic Polly and Her Pals. The first volume, encapsulating 1925-27, will be in stores this coming August.
The strip began in 1912, but it was in the 20s that Sterrett's art ...
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Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
The Book of Genesis Illustrated
Sales charts | R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated climbs seven spots to No. 2 in its second month on BookScan's list of top-selling adult graphic novels in bookstores. It's bested, as most are, by the latest volume of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto. ...
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Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes Sales charts | R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated climbs seven spots to No. 2 in its second month on BookScan's list of top-selling adult graphic novels in bookstores. It's bested, as most are, by the latest volume of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto . But it's another story on USA Today's bestseller chart, where Crumb's book drops 49 places in its second week to No. 129. [ ICv2.com ...
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robot6.comicbookresources.com 11/3/2009 — The Comics Journal #300
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The Comics Journal #300 — now online in its entirety!
robot6.comicbookresources.com 19 days ago — The Comics Journal #300
Kiss your productivity goodbye, comics fans: Every last page of the 300th issue of The Comics Journal has been posted online .
The Journal team had already pulled all the stops to make this anniversary issue something ...
SPX 2009: Yes.
iloverobliefeld.blogspot.com 9/25/2009 — Along with everybody else, I am planning on going to the Small Press Expo 2009 . I'll be there Saturday. And I think this is the panel that I am looking forward to the most: Critics’ Roundtable , 3:30 | Brookside Conference Room A murderers’ row of comics critics will address general issues ...
Portrait of the Comics Critic as a Young Man
comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com 10/12/2009 — What sort of boy grows up to be a comic critic? In the case of Gary Groth, we have some idea, since the journalist Aileen Jacobson wrote a fascinating profile of the future Fantagrapics honcho in 1972, when he was all of 17 years old. The profile ...
Gahan Wilson Production Notes
fantagraphics.com 30 days ago — Back in June Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth and I were trouble-shooting ideas for packaging "Gahan Wilson: Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons." Most of the ideas were unfeasible or enough of a gimmick that it felt distracting from the ...
Rethinking the Box: Books vs Comic Books [2]
rocketbomber.com 4/10/2009 — [see the first ‘Rethinking the Box’ column ]
“Although referred to as comic books , these publications are actually more akin to magazines, having soft covers printed on glossy paper, with the interiors consisting of ...
All the Comics in the World: TCJ #300
comixology.com 9/7/2009 — The 300th issue of The Comics Journal is soon to hit the stands, and the magazine everyone in comics loves to hate rattles on, chugging and sputtering and picking up disreputable beardy guys like a Toonerville Trolley of spite. The Comics Journal ...
SPX 2009 - a gallery on Flickr
flickr.com 9/30/2009 — fantagraphics Galleries SPX 2009 A gallery curated by fantagraphics | 13 photos | 22 views Fantagraphics Books at the 2009 Small Press Expo in North Bethesda, MD, Sept. 26-27 2009 100_8126 Gahan Wilson by mgrhode1 100_8125 Gahan Wilson by mgrhode1 ...
Oct. 28, 2009: We’re turning again
tcj.com 10/28/2009 —
First things first: The Comics Journal #300, due out in late November (and cover pictured at right), will be the last issue to be published on a magazine schedule. Thereafter, the Journal will publish twice a year, in bigger and more ...
TCJ 300 free online
forbiddenplanet.co.uk 19 days ago — The 300th issue of the excellent Comics Journal, one of the best reads about the medium you’ll find in the English language (and now the final issue in the traditional format as it moves to a bi-annual, larger format), is now available to read ...
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