MINOR AT HEART
Cultural warrior Wertham
The Village Voice profiles psychiatrist and anti-comics crusader Dr. Fredric Wertham
I just count the wings
Prolific illustrator Charley Harper brought great flair to commercial art in America's postwar years.
More stories than we could use
An all-comics issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine isn't exactly what I hoped it would be.
Olivier Kugler and the "power of the drawn image"
Artist Olivier Kugler is "the contemporary face of reportage illustration."
Will Eisner and Jack Katz get mail
Professor and comics scholar Andrew Kunka examines the correspondence between artists Will Eisner and Jack Katz in INKS.
All the fountains of the great deep
There’s a place to come up for air at the New Museum’s riveting and slightly exhausting Raymond Pettibon exhibit.
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.