10 Cent Museum
Against Clarity
How the cult of simplicity limits our understanding of comics’ potential Continue reading
Fall into Degradation
In this week’s column, an Arcades Project-style history of cartoonists and their relationships with editors, publishers, and so-called fans. Continue reading
Simplify, Stupid
Does Will Eisner really deserve so much more respect than Don Martin and Dave Berg? Continue reading
Notes Toward a Future Understanding of Wally Wood
Why is the art of Wally Wood so hard to describe, so hard to get at? Why am I so interested in his art, while the similarly painstaking craftsmanship of a Joe Kubert or Will Eisner leaves me cold? Continue reading
At the Mountains of Madness
Within the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, we come across Sherrie Levine’s 1989 art work Untitled (Mr. Austridge: 2). It is not currently on view, but was up in the galleries from June 30, … Continue reading
Where I’m Coming From (Part 2)
Zines disappear arbitrarily and without warning. For the final installment in this series, I’ve tried to write about a great many, in the hopes that works that have moved me might open up forgotten corners of what is possible in cartooning.
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Where I’m Coming From (Part 1)
The minicomics and zines that shaped the columnist’s aesthetics. Continue reading
Anything But Reality
How both George Herriman’s final Krazy Kat strips and the overpacked silliness of Mort Weisinger’s Silver Age Superman illustrate the true power of cartoon storytelling. Continue reading
