Interview: Bill Kartalopoulos and THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2014
It is a pleasure to chat about comics, especially with someone as well-versed on the subject as Bill Kartalopoulos. For this interview, the occasion is the 2014 volume of “The Best American Comics,”...
View ArticleReview: WORDLESS Tour with Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston
WORDLESS at The Moore Theatre, October 12, 2014 Imagine the most dazzling art lecture of your dreams complete with live music or, better yet, imagine something like Oscar Wilde touring America in 1882....
View ArticleKickstarter: BAREFOOT GEN for Schools and Libraries Campaign Ends 9/10/2015
Our friends at Last Gasp need that last big push to get them over the top for such a worthy goal: a new hardcover edition of a landmark in manga, “Barefoot Gen,” for schools and libraries. This is the...
View ArticleBook Review: WHY COMICS? by Hillary Chute
WHY COMICS? by Hillary Chute “Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere,” by Hillary Chute, published by HarperCollins, is a highly informative, accessible, and delightful look at the evolution of...
View ArticleInterview: Hillary Chute asks, “Why Comics?”
Panel excerpt from Introduction to “MetaMaus” Hillary Chute is a well-regarded authority on comics, the author of a number of impressive titles, including her latest work, “Why Comics? From Underground...
View ArticleBook Review: IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I AM AMERICA: NEW STORIES AND ART
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art What does it mean to be American in these strange times we live in? We have someone in power who behaves like a self-serving gremlin, determined...
View ArticleReview: THE BOOK OF WEIRDO, published by Last Gasp Books
The Book of Weirdo Yes, Virginia, We Do Have Alternative Comics! With all due respect to any comics scholars who might in the least have any problem with the term, “alternative comics,” let me direct...
View ArticleReview: COMIC ART IN MUSEUMS, Edited by Kim A. Munson
Comic Art in Museums Comic Art in Museums. Edited by Kim A. Munson. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 386pp, $30 paperback. A pet peeve of mine, a whole little schtick, was my often complaining...
View ArticlePaul Buhle on Comics: Review of ‘Street Cop’ by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman
Street Cop. Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman. London: IsolarII, 2021. 104pp. $20. Guest Review by Paul Buhle This vest-pocket size story-and-comic arrives to a world without…vests! But it is the same...
View ArticleDIRTY PICTURES by Brian Doherty–a Look at the Origins of Comix
Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix. by Brian...
View ArticlePaul Buhle on Comics: Three Rocks and a Guy from the Bronx
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy. By Bill Griffith. New York: Abrams, 2023. 265pp, $24.99. Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic...
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