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A Comic Tells the Rebellious, Messy Lives of Teenagers

by Ysabelle Cheung September 23, 2020November 5, 2020

Ancco, who became famous for her diary-like webcomics, has published a collection of stories that ripple through domestic violence, social oppression, and rebellion.

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Yayoi Kusama Gets Her First Graphic Novel Biography

by Elisa Wouk Almino September 14, 2020November 5, 2020

In this excerpt of Kusama: The Graphic Novel, illustrator Elisa Macellari time travels to Kusamaโ€™s life in 1960s New York City, when the artist became โ€œthe high priestess of love and pacifism.โ€

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Enter the Humorously Awkward World of a โ€œLong-Distance Cartoonistโ€

by Megan N. Liberty July 20, 2020April 18, 2022

Brilliantly paced, Adrian Tomineโ€™s latest graphic novel takes readers from discomfort to laughter in just a few panels.

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A Comics Series Offers an Exercise in Optimism

by Eliza Levinson June 4, 2020November 5, 2020

An Instagram project by Desert Island Comics, Rescue Party offers poetic renderings of the world beyond our current reality. According to these artists, itโ€™ll be beautiful.

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Cartoonists Take on the Coronavirus With Sympathy and Humor

by Jason Li March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

As Covid-19 takes the world by storm, cartoonists and illustrators express statements of solidarity, share experiences (and grievances), and laugh a little.

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In India, a Wave of Political Webcomics Are Chronicling Huge Nationwide Protests

by Krish Raghav January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

In a fierce information and ideological battleground online, Indiaโ€™s webcomic creators and illustrators are cutting through the noise with style and wit.

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Beloved Comic Series The Far Side Is Now Legally On the Web

by Dan Schindel January 7, 2020January 8, 2020

After decades of eschewing the internet, creator Gary Larson is releasing daily batches of the classic strip.

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โ€œThe Hardest Story I Have Ever Doneโ€: Autobiographical Comics Illustrated by Sexual Abuse and Harassment Survivors

by Carolyn Yates December 27, 2019December 26, 2019

Some of the contributors to Drawing Power: Womenโ€™s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival maintain a โ€œstraightforwardโ€ style of testimony, while others employ creative license to convey the lasting psychological effects of sexual violence.

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Revisiting Watchmen and the Lessons We Have (and Havenโ€™t) Learned From It

by Dan Schindel November 18, 2019August 5, 2020

One of the defining texts of the superhero genre, the graphic novel also broke the genre in such a way that, after more than 30 years, it still hasnโ€™t fully recovered.

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Centering the African Diaspora in Comics and Cartoons

by Eric Vilas-Boas November 12, 2019November 12, 2019

A new exhibition recognizes the importance of representation both on the comics page and in the hands of the artists making them.

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Read Joe Saccoโ€™s โ€œBitumen or Bust,โ€ a Harrowing Comic on Climate Change

by Eric Vilas-Boas September 20, 2019

The comic, reprinted from the forthcoming The Best American Comics 2019, is an unsettling look at the oil sands of Alberta, Canada.

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A Feminist British Illustrator Who Satirized the British Middle Class

by Julia Friedman September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Posy Simmonds was known for her particularly wry voice, but Paul Gravettโ€™s book gives its namesake short shrift, not placing her clearly enough in the context of other illustrators.

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