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Infidel: The Terror of White NeutralityEverybody at some level believes in it. It's a deeply seductive image. The image that we all want, as oppressed people, is an image of our...
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Laughing Ogre ComicsOhio has always exerted a peculiar influence over the world of comics. Even in the absence of either the metropolitan gravitational pull...
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Harvey Knight’s OdysseyNick Maandag is a pragmatist. In his 2020 interview with The Comics Journal , he describes coming home from his job every night and...
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Let’s Get PhysicalSocial media and online publishing have helped connect cartoonists with readers who might never have found their work otherwise. Thanks to the...
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BLAB! Vol. 1I hadn’t finished reading this book before I'd recommended it to a couple of friends, which means it lives up to its tag line, “Comics and Stories...
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“I Don’t Mind Being Unique”: Robin Bougie on Gutter Hunter and Other Hot PursuitsPortrait of Robin Bougie and his cat Herbie. Photo by Rebecca Dart. The ‘Adults Only!’ disclaimer ubiquitous to pornographic materials has...
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Your Cousin, Marvin Berry – This Week’s LinksWe’ve had so many bank holidays already this month in the UK that I am completely unmoored from time and no longer have any sense of what day it...
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Disorder 3/3Hey, quick question - have you ever been the target of an international hate campaign intended to bolster the rise of fascism through the violent...
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Blood of the VirginThose graphic novels that are considered once-in-a-lifetime projects of significance are few and far between. Blood of the Virgin , by Sammy...
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The Big (Blighted) OrangeI. Everybody likes a seedy Hollywood story. Gritty sex. Tarnished glamour. Strangled dreams. But walking a graphic novel down mean...
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Work-Life BalanceI don’t think it’s some sort of earth-shaking revelation to note the way therapists are portrayed in most media tends to be… on the negative...
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Remembering Ted Richards… And A Look Back at the Air PiratesTed Richards in 1972. Photo by Patrick Rosenkranz. Ted Richards, a member of the infamous Air Pirates—the comics collective that faced a...
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“That’s A Lot Of Me. I’m Sorry.”: Talking with Julia Wertz About Ambition, Self-deprecation, and Learning How to Be EarnestPhoto by Oliver Trixl. Julia Wertz ’s first comic, the hilariously raunchy autobiographical strip The Fart Party , became a viral...
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Me And You Versus The World – This Week’s LinksIt’s a right royal occasion this week, as I’m apparently supposed to swear allegiance to the UK’s soon-to-be-newly-crowned monarch this weekend,...
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All My Friends in L.A. Love Me More Than You: Sammy Harkham’s Blood of the VirginFrom the jump, Blood of the Virgin announces itself as more hot-blooded than most comics pitched to crossover to the New Yorker tote bag...
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CankorAlthough I wish I could be cool enough to tell you all I knew him way back when, fact is the first time I ever saw Matthew Allison ’s work was...
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Golden Apple ComicsThis one, I admit, is personal. Thirty years ago, I was a 7-year old kid heading home from school in the late-spring heat of...
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Biking and PhilosophyJason Novak speaks with Gary Sullivan about making comics with an eye towards collage and memories of defunct message boards, and then Eleanor...
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Platonic LoveIf there is one thing which any comics critic worth their salt dreads, it’s a didactic comic. We are supposed to champion works that celebrate...
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“That’s The Way I See The World”: Shooting the Breeze with Geof DarrowThe Shaolin Cowboy, Geof Darrow's signature character, as depicted in his eponymous first series, later subtitled Start Trek . Colored and...
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Say Goodbye to Classical Reality – This Week’s LinksBidding farewell to April, and laying out the welcome mat for May, in the only way that we possibly know how - by presenting a selection of this...
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SergioTo begin, perhaps a few words on MAD . Banquo’s ghost raises his head at the other end of the table, broken grin unwavering. Blithe nonchalance...
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Commentaires sur les sentences de Pierre LombardThoughts an' prayers! What follows is an exegesis - or more precisely: the art of exe gazing . If you, like French dessinateur L. L. de Mars ,...
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Maurice Horn, June 28, 1931 – December 30, 2022Horn and colleagues gathered at the Lucca Comics festival in 1979. From left to right: Paris photographer Michel LaBelle, newspaperman Éric...
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Plasma Spring: HalloweelThere’s a scene in David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly where Jeff Goldblum, all hopped up on bug DNA, is unsuccessfully pressuring Geena Davis...
