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January 16, 2013Live-drawing larger
than life heroes
Art
December 19, 2012Jeffrey Dahmer, meet alien dinosaur
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December 5, 2012Ware and Smith talk
location in fiction
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October 24, 2012Word bookstore hosts a quartet of graphic novelists
Film
August 15, 2012Voice Choices
July 11, 2012In brightest day, with Darkest Knight
Film
April 4, 2012Voice Choices
February 22, 2012You better watch out . . .
Art
December 14, 2011From cheesecake to wastelands to goth colonials
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December 7, 2011Voice Choices
November 30, 2011Voice Choices
November 23, 2011Call it the indie Comic-Con
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October 5, 2011Daniel Clowes and Seth dissect their craft
Film
September 28, 2011Blogs
July 30, 2011Big news: Prince Harry is getting his own comic book and graphic novel come August. Both are called "The Royals: Prince Harry" and both feature creepy cover art. In one version Harry has brown hair and kind of looks like George W. Bush (anyone else see it?) while a framed picture of Diana in ... More >>
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May 18, 2011Voice Choices
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May 4, 2011Chester Brown draws his sex life
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April 13, 2011Blogs
April 12, 2011Grant Morrison in the video for My Chemical Romance's "Sing"
Grant Morrison is a U.K. comic book writer known for known for highly singular--or insane, if you prefer, in a good way--takes on established mainstream properties like X-Men and Doom Patrol as well as his own, peyotesque original series ... More >>
News
April 6, 2011Drawn and nickled and dimed
Blogs
February 25, 2011BravoThe face of the modern superhero?Two worlds are colliding in the latest Spider-Man comic, and it's not a clash between the forces of good and evil. Well, that eventually happens, too, but more surprising is the merging of the culinary world and the artistic. Eli Kirshtein, best known a ... More >>
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November 3, 2010Take a tour of Jules Feiffer's life
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November 3, 2010Kenny Scharf teams up with Dearraindrop
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August 11, 2010Blogs
July 2, 2010An email from a reader named Tony Macy-Perez commended me for talking straight about gay issues and pointing out how LGBTs are often applauded yet sent to the back of the bus at the same time.
And he had some thoughts of his own:
Blogs
April 18, 2010It's a big gay bird! It's a big gay plane! It's... the front page of the Sunday Style Section in the Paper of Record!
Skin Tight U.S.A., the costume-fetish party at the West Village's Stonewall Inn, gets the "let's explain this zany subculture to stodgy old people" treatment, while the good ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2010Comic book trading website ComicConnect.com posted a rare first edition Superman comic book on their site this week, and within one minute the special copy sold for $1 million. Someone really wanted that damn comic book.
Vincent Zurzolo and Stephen Fishler, co-founders of the website, always ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2010As seen from the French Revolution forward, partisans of a populist movement that claims to represent the will of the people against The Man must be constantly on guard against mockery or criticism by its enemies. No slight, however minor, can be left unaddressed, lest it feed the worm of dou ... More >>
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October 13, 2009Blogs
February 4, 2009Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions.
The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero
Edited by Angela Ndalianis
Routledge
The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero, edited by Angela Ndalianis, is the second genre-warping collection of essays either delivered at or inspired b ... More >>
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November 19, 2008Five graphic novelists you should know
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November 5, 2008Neil Gaiman gives you a nerd-gasm
Film
June 10, 2008In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing
Blogs
May 16, 2008Blogs
April 30, 2008Screens
October 31, 2006Books
June 27, 2006The return of the repressed, DC-style: Consolidating the superhero multiverse leads to fanboy friction
Screens
June 6, 2006Witty political satire takes an underrated form places it's never been before
Books
February 21, 2006Art
September 13, 2005Film
July 5, 2005Books
December 28, 2004Framing an abstract expressionist and comics maestro in the entrance to the subway
Theater
September 7, 2004The Peanuts turn freaky when given the Royal treatment
News
November 18, 2003Legendary Comic-Book Artists Alex Ross and Neal Adams Declare Their Patriot Acts
Books
July 22, 2003Alan Moore's Supreme Achievement
Books
July 8, 2003The Tragi-Comics Story of Fantagraphics
News
October 8, 2002In the Battle for Hearts and Minds, Watch Out for the Psy-Ops
Books
January 22, 2002Books
January 2, 2001Going for the Girl Market
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