MINOR AT HEART
Hyperallergic's year in comics
I wrote about Michael Kupperman’s All the Answers for Hyperallergic's year in comics (2018).
Documenting subway station design for 40 years
Philip Ashforth Coppola has been creating painstakingly detailed ballpoint pen drawings of the design work at New York City subway stations—their decorative elements, the tile patterns, the typefaces, and more—since 1978.
Pierre on Plath
Cartoonist Summer Pierre reviews for the New Yorker's site two collections of letters from poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, who suffered from depression and took her own life in 1963.
A homecoming for the Queen of Soul
Film critic Melissa Anderson writes about the release of Amazing Grace, a "long-delayed" documentary concert film chronicling two widely revered 1972-era Aretha Franklin performances that comprise a live album of the same name.
December is for monsters
There are some new full-color ballpoint pen illustrations from award-winning comics artist and writer Emil Ferris in the December print issue of Artforum.
Otis in type
Two Fonts in Use posts explore cover design and fonts utilized for a series of Otis Redding singles
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Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Get in touch.