Film
Joker Is a Thinly Veiled (and Thin) Take on '80s NYC
The film is far too derivative, far too wedded to juvenile mythology, and far too tentative to deserve its elevated profile.
Comics
Comics
What’s in the Stars for Artists in October
Astrological advice to free your artistic soul.
Comics
Read Joe Sacco's "Bitumen or Bust," a Harrowing Comic on Climate Change
The comic, reprinted from the forthcoming The Best American Comics 2019, is an unsettling look at the oil sands of Alberta, Canada.
Books
A Feminist British Illustrator Who Satirized the British Middle Class
Posy Simmonds was known for her particularly wry voice, but Paul Gravett's book gives its namesake short shrift, not placing her clearly enough in the context of other illustrators.
Books
A Graphic Novel Looks at the Limits of Freedom in Revolutionary Cuba
By approaching Castro’s Cuba from the margins, author Anna Veltfort creates a unique lens through which to observe the mechanisms by which a political system acts upon those who live within it.
Comics
What’s in the Stars for Artists in September
Virgo: Take a break, go to a museum.
Comics
Save Your Ideas From Burning on the Back Burner
Finish that project before it burns to a crisp.
Books
A Korean “Comfort Woman” Tells Her Story in a Harrowing Comic
Cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim relays the story in a documentarian manner that isn’t for the faint of heart.
Art
Walk the Streets That Inspired Jack Kirby's Comics
The King of Comics was born and raised in New York City, on the streets where many of his fictional characters live, and the nonprofit that honors his legacy will guide visitors along a free walking tour of his haunts.
Comics
Two Babies and a Sketchbook
People tell you a lot of really useless aphorisms when you have a baby.
Comics
The Cycle of Freelance Drought
I need... paying... gigs...
Comics
Artists Return to New Age Strategies for Empowerment
It makes sense that artists would return to New Age strategies in the age we live in. Still, I’m not sure these methods provide much more than temporary soothing.