COMICS ARCHIVES

The pop culture extravaganza rumbles into the Javits just in time to give us a break before the midterms. 

George Herriman’s drawings are masterpieces of dramatic economy, achieving miracles of individuation and expression through body language and suggestive absences.

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Legendary comic-book Artists Alex Ross and Neal Adams declare their Patriot Acts.

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The City That Never Sleeps is the perfect locale to celebrate an industrial dream factory

The book paints moving biographical details with honesty and emotion and an eye for effective detail

When a comics master reviewed a comic "book" in the Voice

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“James Warren, founder and publisher of ‘Famous Monsters,’ developed an overactive imagination because his parents left him alone all day.”

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Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such di­verse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer

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A Story of Labor, Lies, Losses, and Libel Suits

“The most popular Marvel hero has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of women. He is anti-social, castration­-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, and accident-prone”

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