Books
Harry Smith’s Hidden Roadmap to the Heavens
He needed money to live, so that he could search New York City for paper airplanes.
Comics
Art
Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University is an ultra-accessible shrine to the genre.
Comics
My Art Fair Nightmare
I was on my way to the art fair when something strange happened.
Art
Carmen Selam’s Debut Comic Is Self-Love Medicine
In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.
Comics
That Time When I Tried to Move to Israel
A Rabbi said there’s land in the settlements with my name on it.
Comics
A Conflicted Cartoonist Ponders Roy Lichtenstein
A new documentary asks whether the Pop Art icon appropriated the work of comic artists. If so, who’s truly to blame?
Comics
The Life and Times of Patrociño Barela
A new exhibition at the Roswell Museum in New Mexico honors the underrecognized legacy of the self-taught wood carver.
Books
Barbara Brandon-Croft’s Comics Tell It Like It Is
Where I’m Coming From was the first nationally syndicated comics strip by a Black woman cartoonist.
Comics
This Is How Succession Should End
Brace yourself for the rise of the Pee Balloon Army.
Art
The Black Comic Book Festival Is an Act of Resistance
At the annual Schomburg Center event, I didn't have to go searching for books made by and for me — because they were all around me.
Comics
Mike Leigh's BBC Films, Ranked
Leigh's films are class-conscious, prickly, strange, satirical, and often very funny.
Comics
AI, WTF Do You Know About Pain?
Something in this era of AI-generated art feels debased, devalued. That something is me, the artist.