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Ship to Shore
Message in a bottle from the 1980s.
Aidan Koch: Day Four
Sitting poolside in the rain.
Madame Audacity: The Art of Claire Bretécher
Claire Brétecher at the Centre Georges Pompidou arrives just in time.
Aidan Koch: Day Three
Miami Beach…
Aidan Koch: Day Two
Bird on the beach.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/13/16 – Plastic Soul)
A fond look at books I put in storage, i.e. every installment of this column in 2016.
Texas, In My Rearview Mirror
Jack Jackson, aka “Jaxon, was a first-generation underground cartoonist. (In fact, with “God Nose,” which he self-published in 1964, he may have been the first UG cartoonist.) He was a fifth-generation Texan, born May 15, 1941, in Pandora (est. pop. 125). He died from a self-inflicted gunshot, on June 8, 2006, atop his parents’ grave… Read more »
Aidan Koch: Day One
The author in Key West.
Herriman Riff
“I feel like we’re all in these punk bands and we all go to punk shows and then we go home and we’re supposed to study ragtime music.”
Quelles meufs?
Rob Clough writes about Raina Telgemeier; Clowes, Sfar, and Sattouf withdraw from the Angoulême Grand Prix; much more.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (1/6/15 – The Five People You Meet in Nemesis)
Thanks to everyone who missed me, and sorry for making you regret it so soon!
Golden Years
Paul Tumey’s faves of 2015, Julia Gfrörer’s Twitter account suspension, and much more.
Rockin’ in the New Year with The Rocket’s Xmas Covers
Happy Holidays to everyone, whatever it is you celebrate–or not celebrate–this time of the year. In the spirit of the New Year, and in an effort to further explore some historical connections between comics and other forms of popular culture, today we will be focusing on some of the Christmas-time covers done by an extraordinary John Kelly | December 22, 2015
