Julie Doucet: How A Zine Author Went Canonical
Aubrey Gabel reflects on comics artist Julie Doucet's career and legacy....
Julie Doucet: How A Zine Author Went Canonical
Aubrey Gabel reflects on comics artist Julie Doucet's career and legacy....
Comics as Social Media: On Julie Doucet’s “Time Zone J”
In focusing her new work on the merger of past and present, Doucet shows the comic book medium to be as much about time as anything else....
The Art of Translating Comics: A Conversation with Hannah Chute
The translator of several French graphic novels discusses the challenges involved in translating comics....
The Arab in Winter: On Fabien Toulmé’s “Hakim’s Odyssey”
“Hakim’s Odyssey” is a three-part graphic novel that follows the painful real-life journey of a Syrian refugee fleeing his country’s civil war....
Born a Storm: On Kohta Hirano’s “Hellsing”
Kohta Hirano’s “Hellsing” is a work at once too delightfully absurd to be believed and too believ-able to be absurd....
Sitting in Silence: A Conversation with Dash Shaw
Alex Dueben talks with Dash Shaw about his approach to comic writing and moviemaking, as well as his new book, “Discipline.”...
“The Secret to Superhuman Strength” Revealed!: Alison Bechdel Talks About Her New Book
Alison Bechdel talks in depth about her new book, “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.”...
The Case for Superman’s Queer and Kinky Underbelly
Superman encourages us to pursue reclamation and defer hopelessness through play, pleasure, and fleeting free moments....
Sci-Fi Graphic Novel “Displacement” Confronts the Trauma of Incarceration
Cartoonist Kiku Hughes uses time travel to understand her grandmother’s experience in a Japanese American concentration camp....
Crisis Industry: On Simon Hanselmann’s Pandemic Webcomic
What a graphic novel about disaffected stoner monsters reveals about the political and economic crises of the pandemic....
The Present Waver: On “Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts”
Jordan Alexander Stein reviews "Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts" by Rebecca Hall and illustrated by Hugo Martínez....
“Street Cop” and Cartoon Controversies: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
Jon Wiener speaks with Art Spiegelman on his latest illustrations, lockdown, and not looking for controversy (but finding it anyway)....