The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival Ends
May 17, 2013The founding partners of the influential and popular independent comics festival discuss—and dispute—the reasons for its sudden demise. Continue reading
The Library of American Comics at 75 Titles (and counting)
May 13, 2013A discussion of plans, approaches and rights with the founder and associate editor of the Library of American Comics. Continue reading
“This Brighter Path”: An Interview with James Romberger & Marguerite Van Cook
May 8, 2013Talking with the East Village artists about running a gallery, comics, publishers, the importance of color, and collaborating with the late David Wojnarowicz. Continue reading
The Enigmatic Edward Sorel
One our greatest illustrators writes about his friend and colleague. Continue reading
Body Schemas
Building Stories is in a very primary sense a comic about women and the private lives they lead. Continue reading
Shades of Gray: The Life and Death of the Oft-overlooked Master
Gray Morrow was the legend that should’ve been, one of those rare and amazing artist’s artists who slipped between the cracks of popularity in the comics industry, his work imbibed with the same magic that graced old Flash Gordon strips. Continue reading
The Silent Sublime
What does silence teach us about the graphic medium, and the perception that we listen to comics as much as we engage in reading them? Continue reading
The Toc Toc of “Nothing, Really”
Rather than encountering a disability that’s visually present but verbally absent, readers meet with very explicit mention of the protagonist’s body at various points in various texts:. Continue reading
“Sometimes, You Get Your Throat Cut While a Clown is Pulling Your Pants Down”: An Interview with Josh Simmons
Talking horror and narrative with the creator of The Furry Trap. Continue reading
At the Still Point of the Turning World: Chris Ware’s Building Stories and the Search for Structure in the Contemporary City
More than simply an exercise in narrative innovation, Building Stories is a project obsessed with the lived experience of time. Continue reading
Beautifully Failing, Anew
How does this concentrated exploration of failure shape our understanding of these artists’ accomplishments, as well as their relationship to their own work? Continue reading
