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Malcy Duff’s The Tunnel
Malcy Duff | December 22, 2025
To Blave – This Week’s Links
Clark Burscough | December 19, 2025
The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes
Tammi Morton-Kelly | December 16, 2025
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The best comics of 2025, as chosen by our contributors
We asked our contributors what they thought were the best comics of 2025 were. Here’s what they said.
The Editors | December 23, 2025
Malcy Duff’s The Tunnel
Happy Christmas to all, from Macy Duff’s new comic, The Tunnel.
Malcy Duff | December 22, 2025
To Blave – This Week’s Links
Buyouts, bankruptcies, and best-ofs close out 2025.
Clark Burscough | December 19, 2025
Arrivals and Departures — December 2025
You’re going to get lonely unless you continually challenge your assumptions, why can’t you be more like RJ?
RJ Casey | December 17, 2025
The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes
Tammi Morton-Kelly puts on the monocle for a look at Rea Irving’s The Smythes (NYRC, 2025).
Tammi Morton-Kelly | December 16, 2025
“Now it’s all about legacy” – Reconnecting with Jeff Nicholson after his two decades away from comics
Jeff Nicholson talks to Jason Bergman after his 2-decade hiatus from comics.
Jason Bergman | December 15, 2025
Writer, cartoonist Jules Feiffer dies at 95
TCJ | January 23, 2025
No Cheeses For Us Meeces — This Week’s Links
Were you thinking that 2025 was done with its offering of big comics-related news stories? Oh my sweet summer child.
Clark Burscough | December 12, 2025
The Never-Ending Heart-to Heart: a gallery of PCX 2025
PCX 2025: the only expo keeping us alive.
Brent Galen Adkins | December 11, 2025
Books With Pictures’ Katie Pryde on her store and comics retail: ‘I don’t think comics are going anywhere’
Zach Rabiroff talks with Katie Pryde of Portland’s Books With Pictures about surviving debt, navigating comics, and what it takes for a diverse retailer to survive.
Zach Rabiroff | December 10, 2025
Dalton Webb (1972-2025), an artist’s life
Henry Chamberlain, as well as several other cartoonists and friends, remember Webb, who passed away in early November.
Henry Chamberlain | December 8, 2025
(Slight Return) — This Week’s Links
If you press your ear firmly to the ground, you may yet hear the thundering hooves of 2025’s best of the year lists drawing close.
Clark Burscough | December 5, 2025
We are all in the gutter: Starman at 30, part 2
Read part one of the Starman essay here “It is one thing, however, to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to your memory, whereas to know, by contrast, is actually to make each item your own.” — Seneca, Letters From a Stoic: XXXIII “Sand and Stars”, which ran in issues Alex Dueben | December 3, 2025
Trina Robbins, 1938-2024
TCJ | April 22, 2024
Rahil Mohsin on using an endangered language in the recent series, Hallubol (Speak Softly)
Rahil Mohsin speaks softly: interviewed here, for you, by J.D. Harlock.
J.D. Harlock | December 2, 2025
Minute papillon! The 285 Manifesto girlcott halts the 2026 Angoulême Festival
What’s happening with the 285 Manifesto, the unprecedented girlcott against the 2026 Angoulême Festival by Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin with Marlene Agius.
Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin and Marlene Agius | December 1, 2025
We are all in the gutter: Starman at 30, part 1
Starman is 30 years old? Where did the time go? Good thing Alex Dueben is here to do a deep dive on this influential James Robinson/Tony Harris superhero series.
Alex Dueben | November 26, 2025
RIP J.D. King – 1951-2025
J.D. King, a prolific cartoonist whose stylized, jazz-infused illustrations appeared in many magazines in the 1990s, died at his home in Remsen, New York in early November, 2025. He was 74 years old. There is no exact cause of death but also no cause for suspicion. According to several people close to him, King was… Read more »
John Kelly | November 25, 2025
An interview with Lee Lai: ‘I’ve developed a growing fondness for confrontation’
Gina Gagliano talkes to the Cannon author about queerness, invisible magpies, kitchens, and bicycles.
Gina Gagliano | November 24, 2025
The silent rebellion of certainty: Moto Hagio & Julia Gfrörer
Julia Gfrörer is perfectly capable of flawless rhetoric, as proven in the second of two Frasier parodies within World Within the World. She shows us a series of panels of environment furniture behind a conversation between two unseen characters about Maris, also unseen; the perfect hypocrisy of their judgemental framing is crystalline, sending hard glints… Read more »
Claire Napier | November 21, 2025
Ed Piskor, 1982-2024
TCJ | April 11, 2024
Arrivals and Departures — November 2025
RJ Casey has been trapped in the mine for 99 days, 100 if you’re reading this on the weekend.
RJ Casey | November 19, 2025
Love that Chi-Chi! Ngozi Ukazu scores a different type of body checking with her new book, Flip
Ngozi Ukazu talks to Gina Gagliano about all that’s led up to this moment, and about her latest graphic novel, Flip.
Gina Gagliano | November 17, 2025
Silk Suit, Black Tie — This Week’s Links
Enjoy this week’s roundup of comics news, as it’s the last one you get this month! (Don’t worry, Clark will return in December.)
Clark Burscough | November 14, 2025
Roy Kuhlman, graphic designer and hidden cartoonist
The author of a new book about famed graphic designer roy Kuhlman reveals his lesser known career as a cartoonist.
Steven Brower | November 13, 2025
Latesploitation: An examination of recent works by Gilbert Hernandez
How do we read Gilbert Hernandez? The question gets harder, not easier, the more Hernandez adds to his body of work, but Greg Hunter takes a stab at answering it anyway.
Greg Hunter | November 12, 2025
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: ‘We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh’
Jason Bergman talks with the creators of the very popular (and very NSFW) webcomic.
Jason Bergman | November 10, 2025
