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The Comics That Defined DC’s Shuttering Vertigo Imprint
From Death (courtesy DC Comics) Last week, DC Comics announced that it was shuttering its different imprints and consolidating all its titles under one brand. Notably, this marks the end of Vertigo...
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A Comics Convention Sets the Stage for a Layered Crime Story
Bad Weekend (cover art by Sean Phillips, courtesy Image Comics) Writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’s comic book series Criminal has won scads of accolades since it started in 2006. Each...
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Walk the Streets That Inspired Jack Kirby’s Comics
Jack Kirby, “Street Code” (1990) (courtesy the Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center) We remember Jack Kirby as “The King” of comics for good reason. The legendary co-creator of Marvel’s Fantastic Four...
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A Korean “Comfort Woman” Tells Her Story in a Harrowing Comic
From Grass (© Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, image courtesy Drawn & Quarterly) Lee Ok-sun was 15 years old when she was kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. She was taken shortly after her parents — who...
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A Graphic Novel Looks at the Limits of Freedom in Revolutionary Cuba
Goodbye, My Havana: the Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba by Anna Veltfort, published by Redwood Press (An imprint of Stanford University Press) © 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the...
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A Feminist British Illustrator Who Satirized the British Middle Class
Cartoon drawn live during a centenary conference about women’s suffrage, London, 2018 (all images © Posy Simmonds and courtesy of Thames & Hudson) Posy Simmonds, one of four volumes in Thames &...
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Read Joe Sacco’s “Bitumen or Bust,” a Harrowing Comic on Climate Change
I love Joe Sacco’s “Bitumen or Bust” partly because the last time I drove through Alberta, Canada, I too nearly ran out of gas in the middle of a highway, just as Sacco and his friends nearly did. But...
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Centering the African Diaspora in Comics and Cartoons
Key Artwork art directed by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, illustrated by Miguel Blanco, colored by Paris Alleyne for CCCADI (image courtesy CCCADI) If there’s one positive cultural outcome of the Walt...
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“The Hardest Story I Have Ever Done”: Autobiographical Comics Illustrated by...
“She Said, He Said” by Miriam Libicki (all images provided by Abrams ComicArts) For the majority of the three-page comic “She Said, He Said,” Israeli-Canadian graphic novelist Miriam Libicki frames an...
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Beloved Comic Series The Far Side Is Now Legally On the Web
A 1991 comic by Gary Larson (courtesy of FarWorks, Inc.) For years, there has been an official website for Gary Larson’s beloved comic strip The Far Side, but it only contained information on the...
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In India, a Wave of Political Webcomics Are Chronicling Huge Nationwide Protests
A single-panel illustration that plays with the acronym for the contentious legislation that sparked the protests, CAA, with the sound of crows cawing, seen as a bad omen (courtesy of @whackonondo) In...
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Cartoonists Take on the Coronavirus With Sympathy and Humor
Comic courtesy of Sadan As the coronavirus takes the world by storm, it has profoundly impacted our communities and institutions. Yet no corner of the globe experiences the epidemic in quite the same...
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A Comics Series Offers an Exercise in Optimism
An excerpt from Tyler Gunther’s contribution to Rescue Party (all images courtesy Desert Island Comics) During a pandemic, images of positivity can feel scarce. With many forced to stay home, social...
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Revisiting Watchmen and the Lessons We Have (and Haven’t) Learned From It
From Watchmen (all images courtesy DC Comics) An immediate success both critically and commercially, the DC Comics maxiseries Watchmen has only grown in stature over the decades since its initial...
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Yayoi Kusama Gets Her First Graphic Novel Biography
Kusama: The Graphic Novel by Elisa Macellari (all images courtesy Laurence King Publishing) A new biography of Yayoi Kusama is out from Laurence King Publishing this month, in graphic novel form. It...
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A Comic Tells the Rebellious, Messy Lives of Teenagers
From Nineteen by Ancco (all images copyright Ancco, translation copyright Janet Hong, courtesy Drawn & Quarterly) “I don’t even know who the weirdo is — me or everyone else.” These words, spoken by...
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Holy Bidding, Batman! Bruce Wayne and Tintin Break Comic Art Auction Records
Two record-setting sales on January 14 are the latest indication of the strength of the international market for comic books and comic art. At Artcurial in Paris, a rejected 1936 Tintin cover...
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How Kuniko Tsurita Broke the Mold for Women Comic Artists in Japan
From the late 1960s to the mid-’80s, Kuniko Tsurita’s work broke the mold for women comic artists in Japan. As the sole female regular contributor to the alternative Japanese manga magazine Garo,...
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Enter the Humorously Awkward World of a “Long-Distance Cartoonist”
Brilliantly paced, Adrian Tomine’s latest graphic novel takes readers from discomfort to laughter in just a few panels.
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Move Over, New York; Chicago Comics Affirms a Vibrant Local Legacy
Immersive and vast, the exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of the city’s rich comics history.
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The Time Godard Called Filmgoers Bourgeois Fascists
Where are the directors taking the stage to acknowledge workers’ demands today?
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A Psychedelic History of Mushrooms as Medicine
Brian Blomerth’s Mycelium Wassonii deploys amazing graphic storytelling to share his own exploration of mushroom history.
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Papa Renty Taught Us How to Read
Renty Taylor wasn't only an enslaved individual, he was much much more, and his story should concern us all.
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The Story of Kunihiko Moriguchi, a Master Kimono Painter
Moriguchi, who studied in Japan and Paris, took the influence of Op art and applied it to the traditional art of kimono painting.
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The Shaggy Appeal of Kurt Vonnegut
A new documentary about Vonnegut prompts memories of first encountering the author.
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“We Are Safe, the Bomb Shelter Is Fine,” Ukrainian Cartoonists Draw Under Siege
Notes from Ukrainians during the start of the Russian invasion.
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The War in Our Country and on Our Phones
When we communicate with relatives and acquaintances in Russia it can feel like we're living in parallel worlds.
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Don’t Fear a Red Planet, Selections From the World’s Only Native American...
A suggested reading list from Red Planet Books and Comics highlighting Native American literary work.
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A Futuristic View with a Nostalgic Spin
Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond uses speculative fiction as a critical lens on culture.
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The Real Space Invaders
New Mexico artist Eric J. García creates satirical sci-fi images of White colonization, painted with prickly pear ink.
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Anti-Abortion States, These Artists Are Coming for You
In the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision, arts workers and reproductive rights organizations are collaborating on educational resources for accessing safe procedures.
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What Does Diversity in Comics Look Like?
Readers and creators need more than a handful of publishers committed to seeking out diverse talent.
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Spring Break Art Show Asks, What Is the Ideal Naked Lunch?
From magic carpets to Hot Cheeto bathtub feasts, artists on their creations for the city’s beloved eclectic art fair.
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When Tuna Met Snoopy
Something strange happened when I watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with my cat Tuna.
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My Comics Collaboration With DALL-E
I wondered: Could the AI image generator and I develop a shared, unique “voice” in our creative output?
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Barbara Brandon-Croft’s Comics Tell It Like It Is
Where I’m Coming From was the first nationally syndicated comics strip by a Black woman cartoonist.
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Carmen Selam’s Debut Comic Is Self-Love Medicine
In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.
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Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is an ultra-accessible shrine to the genre.
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12 Graphic Novels to Read This Spring
Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more.
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