The Contours of Negative Space: On Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts”
Martin Dolan reviews Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts.”
Martin Dolan reviews Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts.”
Martin DolanMar 7
Melissa Chan reviews “Zodiac” by Ai Weiwei.
Melissa ChanJan 30
Kevin Koczwara chats with Sammy Harkham about his grindhouse-inspired new graphic novel “Blood of the Virgin,” the burdens of balancing family life...
Kevin KoczwaraNov 14, 2023
“Fleischer’s Animated News,” an animation industry comic from the 1930s, satirized working conditions similar to those motivating the Hollywood...
Paul MortonSep 19, 2023
Andrew Montiveo examines the impact of award-winning author Charles Johnson’sfearless political satire cartoons from the 1960s to the 2010s, finding...
Andrew MontiveoApr 25, 2023
DW McKinney explores a recent spate of graphic-medicine narratives that deal with mental health and other medical issues.
DW McKinneyFeb 4, 2023
Lee Thomas takes a look at Lauren Haldeman’s experimental graphic novel “Team Photograph.”
Lee ThomasDec 7, 2022
Reimena Yee talks with M. L. Kejera about the intersection of carpets and comics in “The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya: Volume II.”
M. L. KejeraOct 8, 2022
Babi Oloko delves into Coco Picard’s evocative ruminations on authentic living and authentic dying in her resonant and original novel “The Healing...
Babi OlokoSep 17, 2022
Aubrey Gabel reflects on comics artist Julie Doucet's career and legacy.
Aubrey GabelJul 23, 2022
In focusing her new work on the merger of past and present, Doucet shows the comic book medium to be as much about time as anything else.
Laura PaulMay 14, 2022
The translator of several French graphic novels discusses the challenges involved in translating comics.
Alex DuebenApr 29, 2022
“Hakim’s Odyssey” is a three-part graphic novel that follows the painful real-life journey of a Syrian refugee fleeing his country’s civil war.
Andrew MontiveoApr 23, 2022
Kohta Hirano’s “Hellsing” is a work at once too delightfully absurd to be believed and too believ-able to be absurd.
Austin PriceApr 9, 2022
Alex Dueben talks with Dash Shaw about his approach to comic writing and moviemaking, as well as his new book, “Discipline.”
Alex DuebenMar 12, 2022
Alison Bechdel talks in depth about her new book, “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”
Etelka LehoczkyFeb 26, 2022
Superman encourages us to pursue reclamation and defer hopelessness through play, pleasure, and fleeting free moments.
Meg YoungDec 11, 2021
Cartoonist Kiku Hughes uses time travel to understand her grandmother’s experience in a Japanese American concentration camp.
Mia Nakaji MonnierOct 9, 2021
What a graphic novel about disaffected stoner monsters reveals about the political and economic crises of the pandemic.
Jack ChelgrenOct 4, 2021
Jordan Alexander Stein reviews "Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts" by Rebecca Hall and illustrated by Hugo Martínez.
Jordan Alexander SteinSep 17, 2021
Jon Wiener speaks with Art Spiegelman on his latest illustrations, lockdown, and not looking for controversy (but finding it anyway).
Jon WienerSep 7, 2021
Bob Blaisdell is engrossed in Anne Carson’s reimagining of Euripides’s “The Trojan Women,” illustrated by Rosanna Bruno.
Bob BlaisdellJun 19, 2021
David M. Higgins and Matthew Iung consider the complicated history of cyberpunk comics.
David M. Higgins, Matthew IungFeb 20, 2021
Inio Asano’s anime is rife with images of apocalypse longed for but deferred.
Austin PriceFeb 6, 2021