With appropriative text and visuals, the book is full of single-page mash-up vignettes of obtuse techno-speak and familiar graphics.
Drawn & Quarterly
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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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A Work of Comics Journalism Relays Refugees’ Stories from Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
In 2010, cartoonist Sarah Glidden embarked on a trip with two reporters to speak to refugees and make a book about how journalism works.
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A Fictional Photographer Chronicles a Changing City
For several years, Ben Katchor explored in comics the vanishing (or long gone) rituals we associate with life in America’s metropolitan centers.
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The Sad Story of the Last Cop on the Moon
In Tom Gauld’s new graphic novel, Mooncop — published by Drawn & Quarterly — the age of the moon has waxed and waned.
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A Rabid and Neurotic Worldview in a Suffocating Graphic Novel
Providence, Rhode Island-based multi-hyphenate Brian Chippendale is best known as the masked drummer and howling vocalist of noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt. He’s also a RISD dropout, cartoonist, and artist.
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As He Releases His New Book, Adrian Tomine Talks Beginnings and Endings
Comics artist Adrian Tomine’s latest collection, Killing and Dying, took a long time to materialize.
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An Artist Transforms His Sketchbooks into a Story
Why does one publish a sketchbook? What unmoored narratives does an artist allow to be revealed, and what obligation does she have to collect her thoughts cohesively?
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A Comics Artist Tackles the White Cube
Making comics about the art world is an excellent idea. And so, the premise of Brecht Vandenbroucke’s White Cube is full of promise.
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A Fashion Mag with Beauty and Brains
There will always be fashion magazines that instruct readers which silk faille caftan is appropriate for lounging on a yacht over Memorial Day weekend, but what about one that traces the sartorial origins of the safety pin as an accessory?