Set in the aftermath of a Super Bowl victory, Ben Passmore’s Sports is Hell spotlights human folly, displaying the US at its worst and most ridiculous.
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A Comics Artist’s Eerie, Relentlessly Stark Storytelling
I’m Not Here, written under a pseudonym, uneasily follows an immigrant family as they go about their everyday life.
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Two Comics Artists Draw Their Ways Through Depression
New books by Keiler Roberts and Sina Grace share accounts of their ongoing battles with depression and their careers as comic artists.
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An Illustrated Portrait of Lolita Fashion
Jane Mai and An Nguyen’s So Pretty/Very Rotten attempts to give a broader sociological context to this subculture that quietly began in the Tokyo district of Harajuku in the 1970s.
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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.
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“Japan’s View of Pussy Is Really Weird”: Vagina Kayak Artist Releases Manga Memoir
For the past two years, we’ve been following the strange saga of criminalized Japanese “vagina artist” Megumi Igarishi.