Comic
Overseeing the Extraction
Cumulus Press Improvises on Comics Journalism
PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008
Sleepy political cartoons that hibernate on a newspapers editorial page were long overdue for a shake-up. And comics journalism, a couplin...
Unnerving Candour
PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2007
Adrian Tomine Is Upfront About Shortcomings Long car trips. Your first summer job. Helping a blind man with groceries. These moments, wheth...
Wonder Women
DC Comics Minxs Things Up
PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2007
What do these things have in common: a brash Korean girl trying to preserve her culture in melting pot L.A., a well-read, party-hopping, go...
What Crawls Beneath
Its A Bugs Life in The Exterminators
PUBLISHED May 25, 2007
It starts with the bugs. What better symbol to represent the widening gulf between haves and have-nots in Los Angeles than the teeming unde...
Last Man Lost
Hot Comics Scribe Brian K. Vaughn Crosses Over
PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2007
Hes one of the "100 people who contributed to the culture, according to USA Today (between Tom Waits and Al Gore). Scientific American pr...
Home Sweet Homo
Alison Bechdel Comes Out With A Graphic Masterpiece
PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007
When Alison Bechdel first took a tentative stab at drawing a comic strip, it came from a desire to see herself on the page. Not literally,...
A Bad Man By Any Name
Stagger Lee's Fascinating Journey Into Myth
PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006
That he was a bad, bad man, no one disputes not Woody Guthrie, not Fats Domino, nor Ike and Tina Turner, Dr. John or Neil Diamond. They c...
Hat Trick
Lewis Carroll's Alice Gets Another New Makeover
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006
Lewis Carrolls 1865 nonsense book Alices Adventures In Wonderland and its 1871 follow-up, Through the Looking Glass, are amongst the most...