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Obituary

Elijah Brubaker, 1975-2025

Austin English | September 24, 2025

Diamond Comics

Diamond Has Been Sold. Now What?

Brigid Alverson | June 16, 2025

Reviews

Evil Eyes Sea

Özge Samancı

Uncivilized Books

Leonard Pierce | October 15, 2024

Unended

Josh Bayer

Uncivilized Books

Matt Petras | March 27, 2024

West #1-2

John Grund

Uncivilized Books

Ben Austin-Docampo | November 2, 2022

Holy Hannah

Will Dinski

Uncivilized Books

Anya Davidson | April 30, 2020

For Real #1

James Romberger

Uncivilized

Anya Davidson | March 2, 2020

Ginseng Roots #1-3

Craig Thompson

Uncivilized Books

Anya Davidson | January 27, 2020

My Dog Ivy

Gabrielle Bell

Uncivilized Books

Hillary Brown | January 6, 2020

One Dirty Tree

Leonard Pierce | December 11, 2018

Articles

“Even The Inner World Is Unknowable”: An Interview with Lonnie Nadler & Jenna Cha of The Sickness

The Sickness is a new horror series spanning an ambitious 14 serial issues; Hagai Palevsky sits down with Lonnie Nadler & Jenna Cha, who’ve been planning this project for years.

Hagai Palevsky | June 19, 2023

Uncivilized CEO and Publisher Tom Kaczynski.

Tom Kaczynski

Catching Up with Tom Kaczynski

Publisher, cartoonist and thinker, Tom Kaczynski has his hand in as many art forms and intellectual pursuits as one can. Craig Fischer caught up with him about all of them not once, but twice.

Craig Fischer | December 6, 2021

New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw cover

Dash Shaw

Excerpt New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw

Greg Hunter takes an extended look at Dash Shaw’s Cosplayers in this excerpt from Hunter’s upcoming book,
New Realities: The Comics of Dash Shaw
.

The Editors | November 2, 2021

Matt Madden

Excerpt: Ex Libris

Thanks to Uncivilized Books, we’re pleased to share this excerpt from Ex Libris, by Matt Madden.

The Editors | October 7, 2021

Interview

A Conversation with Gabrielle Bell

Chatting with the cartoonist about process, communication and the status of autobiography.

Dan Nadel | February 18, 2013

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