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.
Among them too were women
Unlike their male contemporaries, the women of The New York School don't have anything even remotely resembling a starring role in helping define the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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.
Saul Steinberg's horizontal line
At Apollo magazine, artist Martin Rowson writes about a newly published edition of 1960's The Labyrinth, from cartoonist Saul Steinberg.
A comic shaped by trauma
I’d read a longform magazine piece from cartoonist and writer Michael Kupperman about making All the Answers.
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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.