(Flann O'Brien)

Way back in the late twentieth-century when I participated in that very not-nice cesspool known as “ The Comics Journal Message Board,” T...

In Chris Ware’s exhibitor badge for the upcoming SPX convention, three exhibitors sit behind their tables, hawking their comics and tr...

There's a lot of ageism in comics criticism online. I write about it here:  http://www.tcj.com/hope-i-die-before-i-get/ 

* Last week, I stopped by my “LCS” (Local Comics Shop) on “NCD” (New Comics Day). Rather than follow my normal routine of skimming the rac...

The twenty or so people still checking on this near-defunct blog may remember in 2013 my book Ticket Stub was published by Rina Ayuyan...

Photo by Yoshiko Yeto In September of 2017, I received an offer to publish Sir Alfred No. 3 from Thomas Ragon, an editor working for t...

. . .  that I disagree with: “Comics aren’t for everyone” Odd – would someone say movies or prose books aren’t for everyone? I ...

The Believer have updated their website to include all of the comic sections Alvin Buenaventura edited there:  https://believermag.com/cont...

I originally drew this for the SPX Anthology, when they had one, in April 2003, but it wasn't chosen. (The next year, their theme was ...

Last year I mentioned one of my original pages had been donated by Annie Koyama to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.  Yest...

Alvin Buenaventura left us two years ago. On the day he died, I had been thinking a lot about calling him, but decided not to. Unless we wer...

This is an entertaining interview with my father about The Masters of Deceit, the late 60's psychedelic combo he fronted in Indiana...