MINOR AT HEART
Probing social-protest comics of the postwar era
Comics scholar and University of South Carolina professor Qiana Whitted writes about EC’s “social-protest comics” in her new book.
Nothing would ever be the same again
For my debut at The Los Angeles Times (!), I wrote about cartoonist Brian Fies's graphic account of losing his home in the 2017 California wildfires.
Infected by the cold of the graves
A new volume from Fantagraphics debuts in English the complete run of horror/science fiction comic Mort Cinder.
A rural dream world for Edmond Baudoin
A look at Piero, a graphic memoir by celebrated French comics artist and illustrator Edmond Baudoin
Drawing the deadliest known migration route
Julia Gfrörer and Andy Warner look at rescue operations for refugees fleeing Libya for Europe in a comic at The Nib.
Karl Stevens, indoorsman
Painter and comics artist Karl Stevens asks a lot of questions about his life—past and present—in his new book The Winner.
ABOUT
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.