Sometimes people and families leave their countries because groups or governments there want to kill them, on the basis of their ethnic identity or for other reasons. It’s a big thing in history, I think there’s some stuff about it in this old book called the Bible. 18 years ago, Australia started taking brown families […]
Monthly Archives: August 2019
CATS IN COMICS: mindfulness assistants
CATS IN COMICS: The Sky In Stereo cartoonist Mardou was on diary duties at The Comics Journal last week, and two of the five days saw cats assuming that if she was on the floor, she should be playing with them. Cats excerpted here: all strips at TCJ.
Weekend At Kirby’s
Copyright pirate megacorp The Walt Disney Company is apparently running some kind of weekend-long endurance challenge event of live advertisements for new version of things they’ve absorbed or extorted from creative people? The in-house propaganda merchant for the Marvel Comics division is on the scene: “Disney Legend Jack Kirby.” The man who conceived, designed, drew […]
CATS ADJACENT TO COMICS
CATS ADJACENT TO COMICS: This T-shirt by manga-ka Junji Ito will only be available for three days at an anime convention in San Jose, USA. Significantly less horrific than the work he’s known for. To be sold at Crunchyroll Expo, 31/8/2019. Bonus CATS PHYSICALLY ADJACENT TO COMICS content: Julia Wertz protecting her originals from […]
zines save lives
Comics twitter has been gathering in a circle and hurling knives inward discussing the value and accessibility of ‘zines for several days now, after Julia Gfrörer attempted to motivate people to communicate via small, cheap paper works of art. (The barrier of entry to library photocopiers is still lower than the barrier of entry to […]
CATS IN COMICS: Kimya & Clyde
CATS IN COMICS: Musician and artist Kimya Dawson and roadie and artist Clyde Petersen have a joint exhibition at the Party Hat Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, right now. Clyde’s part includes a series of cartoons about the punk touring life titled Merch & Destroy: Tour Tales, including a couple of cat appearances. Kimya’s kid-friendly […]