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SAW Work: Meg Lentz and Adam RosenblattAs a teacher and advisor at SAW (Seqential Artists Workshop), I've had the pleasure of mentoring a number of talent students. Two of them local to...
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CRAM, Part 5: Allee Errico's Froggie WorldAllee Errico is part of a wave of young cartoonists whose roots feel more connected to the underground alt-comics scene of the late 80s and early...
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Bubbles Con: Reimagining The Comics FestivalBubbles Con, billed as "a symposium of interviews and talks on comics and manga," was held at the Richmond Public Library on May 5th, 2024....
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Olga Volozova's Chachanar Desert TalesOlga Volozova is a cartoonist and illustrator whose comics work is dense and tends to incorporate the text as part of the art. Her illustration...
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CRAM, Part 4: CRAM #3CRAM #3 has one of the funniest covers I've ever seen for an anthology. In an image that encompasses both front and back covers, artist Laura...
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CRAM, Part 3: CRAM #2Editing and publishing one anthology is hard. Doing multiple issues is a thankless task that requires equal parts vision and determination. It's...
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CRAM Week, Part 2: CRAM #1The underground/alternative comics anthology is a tradition dating back close to sixty years that has birthed movements and introduced exciting...
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CRAM Week, Part 1: Andrew AlexanderOne of the most interesting new publishers is CRAM Books, helmed by Andrew Alexander. To date, he's published three volumes of his CRAM anthology,...
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Poison PillPoison Pill was one of the more exciting comics of 2023 because it had this kind of young guns energy going for it, as six young cartoonists who...
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Pyrite Press, Part 2: K.Wroten's CrimesK.Wroten is one of the most thoughtful and philosophical cartoonists working today. Their first major full-length book, Crimes , was published by...
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Pyrite Press, Part 1: Vinnie Neuberg, Haejin Park, Rachel Katz & Stephanie DavidsonPyrite Press is Brice Gold's publishing concern. I don't think it's currently active in publishing new books, but I did meet Brice at CAKE last...
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Short Mini Reviews: Sean Bieri, Julia Gootzeit, Muchen Wang, Emily ZulloEmily Zullo is a cartoonist and animator. Her Comics About A Bunny Girl is a funny story about anthropomorphic animals and post-ironic...
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Noah Van Sciver's Maple Terrace #2Noah Van Sciver remains in his productive groove of comics with the second issue of Maple Terrace , from Uncivilized Books. The series picks up on...
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Caroline Cash's Peepee Poopoo Issue 80085There's an extent to which this run of very funny and varied issues of the ridiculously titled Peepee Poopoo feels like a warm-up for...
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DOP AnthologyDOP: Comics As Craft is an interesting mini-anthology published by the students of Paul Karasik at a CCS workshop. It's a fitting comic to...
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45 Days Of CCS: The IndexThis was the longest feature I've ever run on the Center for Cartoon Studies, totaling 45 days and including 73 different cartoonists. It's...
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45 Days Of CCS, #45: Aaron CockleLet's jump back into the world of Aaron Cockle and Andalusian Dog . Cockle's been hard at work pumping out issues of his enigmatic pastiche of...
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45 Days Of CCS, #44: Natalie NorrisNatalie Norris has been producing memoir about trauma since before she started at CCS. Even in her earliest assignments at the school, she turned...
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45 Days Of CCS, #43: Rust Belt Review, Beth HetlandThe latest issue of Sean Knickerbocker's Rust Belt Review (#5) is light on CCS content but heavy on other interesting stories. Knickerbocker...
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45 Days Of CCS, #42: Issy Manley, Anna SellheimIssy Manley 's No One Wants To Work Anymore is a series of comics essays addressing labor and one's role in global capitalism from a personal...
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45 Days Of CCS, #41: Meandering RealmsFilipa Estrela has long been a leading proponent of constructed comics made from unconventional materials. Meandering Realms is an anthology...
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45 Days Of CCS, #40: Josh RosenJosh Rosen follows up on illustrating a work of graphic history with another one, this time focusing on the home front of World War II in the US....
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45 Days Of CCS, #39: What The Gnomes KnowWhat The Gnomes Know is an anthology centered around artists from CCS and the Columbus scene. There's a good mixture of both, and there are a...
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45 Days Of CCS, #38: April MaligApril Malig is an avid zine-maker whose work varies from hyper-specific narrative comics, to journals revolving around drawing, food &...
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45 Days Of CCS, #37: Filipa Estrela and Allison BannisterFilipa Estrela is one of the more fascinating graduates of CCS due to their interest in what they refer to as "unconventional material comics" or...
