MINOR AT HEART
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.
Vibrant as a rainbow
At The Los Angeles Times, Lyra Kilston wrote about midcentury Southern California designer Gere Kavanaugh.
Edits to a eulogy for editorial cartooning
Jack Shafer writes at Politico about our "entering the end times of the editorial cartoon." I’m not sure this is the whole story.
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.
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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.