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Remembering Island, the Magazine That Shook Up the Comics Industry
To put out an anthology like this was ambitious, and to do so nearly every month, even more so.
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The Dada Gaze into the Eternal Now
'Dada Presentism: An Essay on Art and History' is an exposé of the conflict between conscious and unconscious forces.
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The iTunes Terms and Conditions as an Eclectic Comic
With appropriative text and visuals, the book is full of single-page mash-up vignettes of obtuse techno-speak and familiar graphics.
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Timothy Hyman's Alternative View of Figurative Painting in Art History
Most of the artists in Hyman’s book, the author claims, are generally excluded from most survey courses and textbooks. Their presence here offers a sharp rebuke to the narrowing of creative possibilities and the disparagement of painting as a vehicle for the expression of modern life and consciousne
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Frank and Feminist Poems About Encounters with Famous Men
Khadijah Queen’s new collection of poems, I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On gathers her firsthand accounts of run-ins with male celebrities.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Life in Comics, Overdue but Awkwardly Drawn
This book may have much to admire on the micro level, but the experience of the whole leaves a lot to be desired.
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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.
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The Unflinching Sensuality of Ren Hang's Photographs
The young artist, who died last month at age 29, is the subject of a new monograph from TASCHEN.
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Alan Felsenthal Emerges from His Song Cave and Sings to Us
In all of his poems, you feel Felsenthal finding his way from word to word and from line to line: he is not trying to tell a story or replay an anecdote so much as go where the words and phrases, sounds and meanings, lead him.
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A Photographer’s 16-Year Project to Capture the Contemporary Séance
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
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Chronicling the Days When Superheroes Knocked Out Nazis
The new book Take That, Adolf! compiles classic comic book covers that show how American superheroes were marshaled into service during World War II.
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Barron Trump Turned into a Beautiful Manga Boy
In the first episode, Barron team up with Sasha and Malia Obama to investigate a “mysterious anomaly” brought about by the rise of the 45th president.