Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre’s The Photographer is an outstanding book in many respects. Based on Lefèvre’s experiences as a photographer accompanying a Doctors Without Borders mission in Afghanistan in 1986, it is a fine memoir that doubles as a compelling adventure story.
Tobocman’s ability to subvert common symbols reinvigorates You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive in each new printing, allowing new readers to intelligently asses their own assumptions about their culture, nation, or even their sense of patriotism.
The quote is a beautiful linguistic specimen because it shows what words can do when no thought is present. Hit on race and the brain gets shut off. That’s not the only reflex we have, but it’s common, especially when entertainment professionals are talking in public about what to do with a given property.
If the phrase “left Shachtmanite” rings a bell, then you have probably heard of a magazine called New Politics. Currently published twice a year by an all-volunteer editorial collective, the journal was launched in 1961 by Phyllis and Julius…
A border town is, in some respects, the perfect setting for a zombie tale. The living dead already inhabit a kind of no-man’s-land.
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Williams on Alan Moore’s take on porn.
Fortune Cookies: New Comics about Journeys and Transformations. Sue Rice and Nick Thorkelson, eds. Forty-eight b&w pages; saddlestitch binding; $4.50. No ISBN. To order copies visit nickthorkelson.com.
This self-published anthology features eleven graphic stories, most of which are autobiographical…
In previous posts – “Whatever Happened to Phil Evans?” and “The Return of Phil Evans” – I introduced Journal readers to one of the overlooked political cartoonists of the past half-century, the English socialist Phil Evans. Evans has pretty…
Che: A Graphic Biography is an argument for many such biographies, since Spain demonstrates how well the comics form can bring history to life yet focus on the factual in ways prose and film usually don’t.
