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caitlin mcgurk

photo gallery

Conventions, signings and exhibitions: A (west coast) 2025 photo yearbook

Chris Anthony Diaz | February 20, 2026

The Smythes

The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes

Tammi Morton-Kelly | December 16, 2025

Articles

Bubbles Con

He’s Happy Down there, Leave him be: The Bubbles Con 2025 scene report

A nourishing visit to Bubbles Con 2025 in Richmond, Virginia where all of the buses are free.

FCB | July 10, 2025

Photo of Shermund and her mother

Barbara Shermund

Caitlin McGurk Remembers Barbara Shermund

Tell Me a story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk, as Tammi Morton-Kelly sees it.

Tammi Morton-Kelly | March 6, 2025

Festival

Nancy Fest 2024 scene report: Brisket and Bushmiller

What was the first ever Nancy Fest like? M.S. Harkness lays it all out for you.

M.S. Harkness | June 21, 2024

Big in Ohio: A Massive Justin Green Exhibit and CXC’s Triumphant Return

Two big reports in one post, as John Kelly attends Binky Brown’s Funeral Pyre, a memorial exhibition for the late underground pioneer currently running in Cincinnati, and Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, the 2022 edition of the popular east coast comics show.

John Kelly | November 2, 2022

“Rhyme With The Images”: An Interview with Frank Santoro

Frank Santoro sits down with Caitlin McGurk to talk in detail about Pittsburgh, his most widely anticipated release from New York Review Comics.

Caitlin McGurk | September 25, 2019

How To Build A Comics Festival: CXC, Year Three

What makes Cartoon Crossroads Columbus work.

Rob Clough | October 10, 2017

Caitlin McGurk and John Porcellino on I Never Liked You and Summer of Love

A discussion of two landmark teenage memoirs by Chester Brown and Debbie Dreschler.

Mike Dawson | August 27, 2015

Caitlin McGurk and Jim Rugg on Ghost World and The Death Ray by Dan Clowes

Chatting about the depictions of teenage friendships in the books of Dan Clowes.

Mike Dawson | August 28, 2014

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