Infinite Sadness
Outer space, courtly love, casual sex, alien abduction, et sic in infinitum, with comics by Lala Albert and Jack Teadle.
Symbol Reader
The Friendly Beasts
Winged creatures of all sorts—owls, bees, dragons—take flight in the comics of Ben Duncan, Lala Albert, and Ward Zwart.
The Art of Divination
In Aidan Koch’s “Configurations” the psychological interval between each panel is central, impossible for the reader to ignore, and in a sense that’s what this comic is actually about.
Weird Sisters
Demonic forces abet and appall in this Halloween analysis of comics by Andrew Pannell, Cathy G. Johnson, and GG.
Internal Combustion
Blood sacrifices are made to appease the inescapable id in comics by Grant Snider, Sophie Franz, Eric Haven, and Luke Howard.
Shadow Puppets
The first installment of a new monthly column, in which the cartoonist Julia Gfrörer uses principles of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and comparative mythology to deliberately overthink the symbolic language of comics.
