Leah Wishnia!
Leah Wishnia is a reminder that being a lynchpin requires labor. As the founder, editor, and publisher of Happiness, the 26-year-old has harvested a biannual bumper crop of idiosyncratic young alternative cartoonists.
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Meghan Turbitt!
A conversation with the creator of #foodporn and Lady Turbo about sex, Catholicism, grotesque imagery, the transition from fine art to comics, and “hot dudes serving food.”
Heather Benjamin!
There’s a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where one of the bad guys tries to press Indy’s face against a conveyor belt that would pretty much sand off his skin. Your first glimpse of a Heather Benjamin drawing feels something like that.
Aidan Koch!
I almost didn’t want to interview Aidan Koch, since so much of the power of her elliptical comics stems from things left unsaid.
Uno Moralez!
Before I conducted this interview with him, you could easily have convinced me Uno Moralez was an elaborate hoax.
Jonny Negron!
The intelligence behind Jonny Negron’s comics transforms his low-culture and underground influences into fully formed work of surprising sophistication.
Julia Gfrörer!
No one is wedding horror’s darkness to an equally black, equally lacerating emotional palette as effectively as Julia Gfrörer.
Noel Freibert!
Even among the motley crew of Baltimore’s Closed Caption Comics, Freibert stands out for the graphic intensity of his comics, in both senses of the g-word.
L. Nichols!
The Louisiana-born, Brooklyn-based 28-year-old MIT grad produces work at a slightly dizzying rate, in such a wide range of styles, genres, and formats that picking a logical starting point is difficult.
Emily Carroll!
Carroll’s sequential art is as ambitious in form and uncompromising in tone as her standalone pieces are lovely to look at.
Blaise Larmee!
The 26-year-old artist Blaise Larmee is not one to let his work speak for itself.
