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Insectopolis: A Natural History - The Comics Journal
Peter Kuper is a cartoonist who is living the dream of making it big in the big city. His work has regularly appeared in three iconic NYC publications: The New Yorker, The Nation and Mad, the latter being where he wrote and illustrated “Spy vs. Spy” for nearly 30 years. Perhaps most notably, considering Kuper’s... Read more »
The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile - The Comics Journal
This is the story of Taha Siddiqui, a journalist-in-exile who survived a kidnapping and assassination attempt, and went on in 2020 to found The Dissident Club, a bar and literary cafe in Paris that embraces dissidents from around the world. How Siddiqui went from a strict Muslim fundamentalist upbringing to becoming an outspoken journalist is... Read more »
The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism - The Comics Journal
Sue Coe — political cartoonist, visual essayist, and long-time contributor to World War 3 Illustrated — naturally has a lot to say about the state of Trumpian America. The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism features well over a hundred of Coe's illustrations, depicting aspects of our once-creeping, now-racing authoritarianism — propaganda, poverty, war,... Read more »
Paranoid Gardens - The Comics Journal
So what’s up with that Gerard Way? Are they doing alright? I worry, you know. There was a My Chemical Romance reunion a couple years ago, or so I heard. I’d hate to hear they were back to bagging groceries at the local ShopRite! They’ve got a bit of a sideline in comic books. If... Read more »
An interview with Julia Gfrörer: 'I don't think that I could make like a nice book if I wanted to' - The Comics Journal
In a conversation with Matthew Perpetua, Gfrörer discusses how she started in comics, her early inspirations, the creative freedom of making zines, and why some people have a hard time understanding comics can be serious literature.
Beat It Rufus - The Comics Journal
The hopeless quest for fame and status, by those least able to achieve either, is priority #1 for Noah van Sciver’s hapless, self-absorbed characters. Those familiar with the heartbreaking misadventures of Fante Bukowski may at first deem Beat It, Rufus more of the same. Its main figure checks many of the shared boxes: massive hubris;... Read more »
Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque - The Comics Journal
It is, to put it mildly, a difficult time to be Jewish in America. With a right-wing government in power and reactionary mobs being whipped up by disingenuous media grifters, antisemitism is on the rise, but that’s not really anything new. What is new is that the antisemitism is being blamed broadly on the left,... Read more »
Night Drive - The Comics Journal
Richard Sala was comics’ most reliable artist of criminal masterminds and colorful lowlifes; of mystical mediums and femme fatales. Informed by surrealism and monster movies, his work landed somewhere between the garage-camp of the Cramps and the more sober otherworld-building of Thomas Ligotti. Sala brought an ironic touch to pulp iconography without ever condescending to... Read more »