Cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim relays the story in a documentarian manner that isn’t for the faint of heart.
Author Archives: 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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America’s Racist War on Drugs Explored in Comics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All of your pre-Code goods are here: blood and guns and tentacles and stranglings and hell demons.