Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker‘s Greatest Cartoonist
The New Yorker’s original one-man art department, Rea Irvin, famously designed Eustace Tilley, the magazine’s monocled mascot. A foppish aristocratic dandy with a nose turned up in sniffy dismissal while scrutinizing a butterfly, Tilley became the ironic icon of Harold … Continue reading
Talk Dirty to Me
CCS alum Luke Howard’s funny and insightful tale of an ordinary woman’s struggle w/ sexuality & self-acceptance. Continue reading
Gulag Casual
What Is Going On: Some Reflections on Picking Up Gulag Casual Hmmm. Hemmm. Well, well, well. Of course, I think, dreams. I smile. Kafka, Beckett, Pinter occur. The language, I consider, (A “brute” approaches to “pummel” someone”) is slightly off. Familiar … Continue reading
Induction of the Sycophant
With its rags-to-riches sagas, occasional creative triumphs and dark episodes of mental and artistic deterioration, the story of the American comic book industry is rife with potential for novelists. Few have tapped this rich source. Fewer have stepped outside the … Continue reading
Carpet Sweeper Tales
Carpet Sweeper is an exceptional book. Though Doucet stopped drawing comics more than a decade ago, these collages function as comics in the best possible sense: images and text so reliant on each other that one cannot operate fully without the other, and out of that interworking, narrative is born. Continue reading
Sacred Heart
The best way to read Liz Suburbia’s book Sacred Heart is to never stop asking questions about the details. Unlike many creators of art about teenagers that focuses on them to the exclusion of adults—or even touching on their absence, … Continue reading
After Nothing Comes
In quiet moments, after the roar of a concert or the consistent rapport of an intoxicating conversation, true friendship is realized. It is is not until this connection is solidified, to wait for another day, that one may understand how … Continue reading
Night Air
Work aimed towards the highly desired demographic of “All Ages” usually follows the same marketing-friendly formulas and resorts to the same winking irony. In popular culture, Pixar is most likely to blame, but comics have jumped on board, full steam … Continue reading
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