MINOR AT HEART
David Sandlin has been awake forever
Artist David Sandlin's carnivalesque comics mingle with politically charged paintings in 2018 book Sleep of History.
Self-expression from the underground in 1968
At The Comics Journal, critic R.C. Harvey has a lengthy examination of the start of underground comix.
Blazing Combat and the ultimate futility of war
Michael Dooley writes about mid-1960s-era black and white comics magazine Blazing Combat.
Artist-reporters and drawing the news
On comics reportage and my Hyperallergic piece on reporter-illustrator Olivier Kugler.
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.