Guido Crepax and the new adult comics revolution
The graphically elaborate 1960s comics by Italian artist Guido Crepax meld hazy dream sequences and historical fact.
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 in Mort Cinder
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.