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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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Scathing Comics About the Crisis of Being Jewish Today
In his new book Diaspora Boy, Eli Valley analyzes the contradictions lodged within the heart of Zionist ideology and how they’re an indictment of American Jews.
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Chess as a Comic Book Trope
The World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis features over 200 comic books that use the strategies, conflicts, and battles of chess as a narrative theme.
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The Creators of the Comics Newspaper RESIST! Are “Picturing the America We Want”
Françoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman will release the second issue of their free periodical that centers women’s voices on July 4.
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Why Marvel Fired an Artist for Inserting Religious and Political Messages into an X-Men Comic
Artist Ardian Syaf included religious references and an allusion to recent Indonesian political demonstrations in an X-Men comic.
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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 Loving, Self-Deprecating Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb
An exhibition at David Zwirner brings together the artist couple’s individual and collaborative autobiographic comics.
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Native Creators and Fans Converge at the First-Ever Indigenous Comic Con
The con gathered artists, writers, illustrators, and fans in one place to celebrate and discover contemporary Native nerd culture. It also served as a corrective.
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Illustrating a Police Sergeant’s Interrogation of a Black Boy
A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant’s 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child.
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Lines of Thought: An Interview with Ben Jones
Last month, Ben Jones exhibited a new body of work at The Hole gallery on the Lower East Side. The gallery’s walls and floor are painted a bright, startling white; Jones’s artwork, usually drenched in hot hues, here consists only of graphite-colored oil-stick line drawings.
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The Most Important Question About Modern Art’s Great Men: Hot or Not?
In her new book, Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists, Jessica Campbell passes definitive judgment on sex appeal of canonical modernists.