At the Jack Kirby Way naming ceremony, May 11, 2026. Barry Williams / New York Daily News. Jack Kirby (b. Jacob Kurtzberg, 1917-1994) would have been 109 years old this very day, August 28. He was …

Today on SOLRAD, we feature WRITE IT DOWN, DRAW IT OUT: THE COMICS ART OF CAROL TYLER -- A Belated Appreciation by Charles Hatfield

The nominations for this year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (honoring work published in 2025) were announced last, Friday May 15 . ​I look forward to this announcement every year! The Eisners...

At last! I have beautiful news to report. Jack Kirby, a legend now, was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, at 147 Essex Street on New York’s Lower East Side, in a packed neighborhood th…

​Contributing to The Comics Journal ’s year-end best-of list has become something of a tradition with me. So has apologizing for my list and complaining that I cannot quite do the job. This last...

Join us for the CSUN Book Arts Festival on March 7, 2026, at the CSUN USU East Conference Center—a one-day gathering celebrating books as art objects, social practices, and engines of connection. This...

How to Say Goodbye in Cuban .  By Daniel Miyares . Anne Schwartz Books / Random House Graphic, ISBN  978-0593568309 (softcover), 2025. US$13.99. 240 pages.

Happy Dawning of 2026! May this year improve on the last. May  we  improve it. May we stick to our guns and make better things happen. May we work toward a more just and equitable society and a...

We asked our contributors what they thought were the best comics of 2025 were. Here's what they said.

Or, What I’m Doing Now that My Summer Vacation is Over Jack Kirby (b. Jacob Kurtzberg, 1917-1994) would be 108 years old today. Born and raised on New York’s Lower East Side, Jacob, or …

This post is the last in a series of three. Yesterday  I reviewed this year’s Eisner nominees for Early Readers. Today I finish this series by reviewing the nominees for Kids, which in practice...

This post is the first in a series of three. This year's Eisner Award nominations came out on May 15, and  my most recent post here listed the nominees in categories that especially interest me, in...

​The nominations for this year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (celebrating work published in 2024) were announced a week ago, on May 15 . ​As ever, I'm looking up and seeking out things to...