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Year OneAnd so, my friends, I ask you on this fine day in February: what was the first comic book you read this year? Because I’ve read a few. Started off...
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The War on Gaza – 1.31.24This is the second installment of Joe Sacco's column, "The War on Gaza." The post The War on Gaza – 1.31.24 appeared first on The...
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H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow over InnsmouthThere is a certain expectation when an adaptation chooses to put the name of the original author in its title. Renounce all other versions, only...
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Martí, 1955-2024Self-portrait from the Spanish comics magazine TBO , 1986. On January 22nd, the longtime Spanish alternative comics publisher La Cúpula...
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The Collected Audra Show Vol. 1Some comics you can feel straining against the self-imposed constraints of their form. Open any given page of The Collected Audra Show ,...
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Three Years of Thick Lines: An Interview with Sally Madden and Katie SkellyIf you sprinkle an appreciation of art history, camp, popular culture and fashion atop astute criticism, you get Thick Lines , one of...
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The War on Gaza – 1.26.24Introducing “The War on Gaza” Gary Groth After the October 7 Hamas massacre and the Israeli military assault on Gaza, I turned to two...
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Over The Land Freckled With Snow – This Week’s LinksI’ve read the word ‘snubbed’ too many times this week for it to retain any meaning, and thus there will be no other use of it in this article,...
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Webcomics Special: Chatting with KC GreenKC Green is an artist perhaps more famous for one particular image than his greater body of work. It’s been 10 years since he created the...
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Power Button: The First InvasionNot to relitigate one of the most persistent debates of contemporary literature, but one of the big problems (from a critical perspective, anyway)...
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A Walker By Any Other Name: Multiple Ways of Looking at a Cartoonist They think if something happened to them that it's interesting because it happened to them... -McCandless, on some writers, in William...
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Zine Panique, Dark Side of the FoodZine Panique was founded in 2019, and since then the French publisher has been releasing anthologies of deliciously good quality. Previous...
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Tokyo These Days Vol. 1 (of 3)This new series by Taiyō Matsumoto is about a middle-aged editor in the comics industry who quits his job. Spat out from the daily grind, he...
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“This Is Not Only What I Want To Do, But What I Need To Do To Be Happy”: An Interview with Philadelphia Cartoonist Steven ArnoldINTRODUCTION The first appropriate thing about my interview with Steven “S.R.” Arnold is that we were originally scheduled to speak...
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Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – This Week’s LinksWell, if nothing else comes from 2024, taking a dim view of the year already in progress, I will at least be able to say that I got to watch a...
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The CliffFrench cartoonist Manon Debaye’s 2021 debut graphic novel The Cliff , new in English, follows young Charlie and Astrid over the course of a week,...
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Buzzelli Collected Works Vol. 1: The LabyrinthThere is a certain book in Italian comics history considered to be the first graphic novel of our modern age, one that came before even The...
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Arrivals and Departures – January 2024Welcome to a new year of Arrivals and Departures! If you’re here for the first time (or your 2024 resolution was to read more very niche...
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David Kunzle, 1936-2024Kunzle in 1967. David Kunzle, one of the founding fathers of comics scholarship, passed away January 1 at the age of 87. The Center for the...
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Remembering David KunzleUCLA faculty photo. David Kunzle opened the doors of academic art history to comics history, and vice versa. During my dissertation years,...
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“I’ve Had The Life That I Wanted When I Was 10 Years Old”: A Conversation with Dave GibbonsIf there’s one takeaway from his memoir, Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography (Dark Horse, 2023), it’s that Dave Gibbons really,...
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A Hazy Shade of Winter – This Week’s LinksBack into the swing of things now, two weeks into this newest of years, back to the grind, the hustle, the pounding the pavement, back to...
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Outbox 3Thoughts and impressions on a selection of noteworthy comics I've recently read. * * * VALERIAN AND LAURELINE: THE CITY OF SHIFTING...
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Salmonella SmorgasbordA thought recurred multiple times while absorbing English indie cartoonist Mark Stafford’s Salmonella Smorgasbord : this 7" x 10" softcover is a...
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CicadasI don’t know very much about Riley Gale, but he certainly seemed to have excellent taste in comics. I say that based on Cicadas , an anthology...
