Article Archive
The Horror! The Horror!: Graham Ingels and the Art of Real Yuch
Who Graham Ingels was (and wasn’t) before, after and during EC Comics.
“My Own Dyke-centric Flavor”: A Conversation with Jennifer Camper
The cartoonist, curator, and organizer discusses her early work in LGBT comics, tussles with publishers and readers over controversial content, and the founding of the Queers & Comics Conference.
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/11/16 – Crashing Headlong Into the Limits of My Charisma
Joe is 1. back from vacation and 2. sick, but we trust the orgonic radiance of comics will restore his vim before midnight falls on the country hills.
The Power of the Pear: When Caricature Met Poster Art
From Caricature to Poster takes you back to a lost moment. In the fin de siècle poster boom, it’s quite a surprise: ads and promotions created entirely by caricaturists. The story of how this happened is quirky – but it’s as real as that of Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge or Mucha’s Sarah Bernhardt. You can see it now at Museum of Decorative Art in Paris.
Nuclear Literati: Nakashima Kiyoshi’s Furusato Goes to Hell
The complicated role of Nakashima Kiyoshi at the intersection of art and power in Japan’s Nuclear culture.
Sara Lautman: Day Five — Classic Date Spot/Natto
Walking with Jeremy
Gorgeous
If, as J.G. Ballard wrote in 1973, the car crash is a fertilizing rather than destructive event, the central car crash in Cathy G. Johnson’s Gorgeous yields fertile, if shaky, ground for an up-and-coming artist. The heart of Gorgeous’s story is a collision between ideologies on the move. In the dead of night, two reckless… Read more »
Sara Lautman: Day Four — The Hum/Outpost
Talking psychoanalysis
Black Panther #1: 31 Thoughts
Perhaps the critic had unrealistic expectations.
Sara Lautman: Day Three — Swimming Lessons/East Village
Social Time in New York
An Olympic Dream
Biography, memoir, and autobiography are possibly the trendiest genres of book-format comics; one cannot even list the titles that have been published since the recent boom in the early 2000s. Some say that there are too many graphic biographies and memoirs already, and that they repeat the same tropes – but I like them. I… Read more »
Sara Lautman: Day Two — Weekend Material/The Net
Talking to Sarah
THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (5/4/16 — Our Sacrifice!)
He makes it look so easy.
The Old Masters
A report from the “Masters of Webcomics” panel at the Silicon Valley Comic-Con, with Jonathan Lemon, Jason Thompson, Jason Shiga, and myself, as well as Andy Weir, who started his creative career with the webcomic Casey and Andy before writing The Martian.
