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Dominic Umile

Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn. His work has recently appeared in The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal, and the Washington City Paper, and he's on Twitter.

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A Korean “Comfort Woman” Tells Her Story in a Harrowing Comic

by Dominic Umile August 23, 2019August 22, 2019

Cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim relays the story in a documentarian manner that isn’t for the faint of heart.

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America’s Racist War on Drugs Explored in Comics

by Dominic Umile March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

Philadelphia cartoonist Box Brown examines marijuana — where it came from, its life in the US, and, importantly, the breathless national campaign to demonize a certain segment of its users.

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Best of 2018: The Top 10 Graphic Novels

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Dan Schindel, Dominic Umile, Megan N. Liberty, Christine Ro and Elisa Wouk Almino December 13, 2018November 11, 2019

Here are some of the most innovative graphic novels this year, selected by Dan Schindel and other Hyperallergic reviewers.

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Documenting the Journeys of Syrian Refugees in Comics

by Dominic Umile September 24, 2018September 21, 2018

Escaping Wars and Waves culls Olivier Kugler’s contributions to Harper’s, Le Monde diplomatique, The New Yorker, and more.

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Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles

by Dominic Umile July 23, 2018July 20, 2018

Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the ’60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.

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In a Comic, Weegee Is a Fiend for Fresh Crime Scenes and Fame

by Dominic Umile June 6, 2018

Weegee: Serial Photographer dramatizes the life and work of Arthur Fellig, the prolific and unscrupulous photographer whose work once covered the pages of New York City newspapers.

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Rebellious, But Still Sexist: Revisiting a Giant of Underground Comix

by Dominic Umile December 1, 2017December 1, 2017

A new book on Spain Rodriguez revisits his innovative repertoire, but ignores the extent to which some of his comix revel in the sexism regularly broadcast in the era’s male-authored strips.

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A Cartoonist’s Dazzling History of NYC

by Dominic Umile October 6, 2017October 5, 2017

Julia Wertz’s new black-and-white book of comics, Tenements, Towers & Trash, is a stirring ode to America’s most densely populated metropolis.

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A Comics Artist Draws on Emotional Isolation and Domestic Strife

by Dominic Umile August 10, 2017August 10, 2017

In two new comics, Jeff Lemire portrays a pair of families’ difficult pasts and the obstacles that crowd their paths ahead.

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Interconnected Comics Examine People’s Relationships to Home

by Dominic Umile July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

In her new graphic novel Something City, artist Ellice Weaver explores all corners of her fictive metropolis.

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A Horror Comic Suffused with Satanism and Dense with Dread

by Dominic Umile June 8, 2017June 8, 2017

Winnebago Graveyard takes readers from a carnival freak show to a hallucinatory black mass.

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Banned Horror Comics Rise from the Dead

by Dominic Umile March 22, 2017March 21, 2017

All of your pre-Code goods are here: blood and guns and tentacles and stranglings and hell demons.

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