How Stan Lee Became the Man Behind Marvel
Chris Yogerst on Bob Batchelor's recent biography of the comic book legend....
Comics and Storytelling: A Conversation with Mat Johnson
On "Incognegro," moving between literary fiction and graphic novels, and the Harlem Renaissance....
Seeing and Being Seen: A Conversation with Adrian Tomine
Sarah Chihaya talks to Adrian Tomine about his writing process, Asian-American literature, and the Bay Area....
“Johnny Appleseed” and the Revision of American Masculinity
Ashley Rattner reviews Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver's graphic biography "Johnny Appleseed."...
Thus Spake Black Bolt
Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward's "Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time" speaks to reviewer Jackson Ayres....
The Playboy Funnies: Hefner Editing Feiffer
On Jules Feiffer's time at Playboy....
“The Stamp is Never Neutral”: Vincent Sardon’s “The Stampographer”
Stamps can terrorize because while their materiality exists in time, like that of paintings, it also compacts it....
Acts of Re-covery: Mining Our Comic Subconscious
R. Sikoryak on his new book, "The Unquotable Trump."...
Creating a Comics Canon
Russ Kick’s "The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery" is, for now, the most sustained anthology of comic art in the English language....
Gabe Soria: “Murder Ballads”
Henry Cherry interviews comics writer Gabe Soria about his new book, "Murder Ballads."...
Ms. Adventures in Higher Education
Katherine West and Chet Whipley's graphic essay about the spectatorial nature of women’s vulnerability and visibility in the workplace....
Zora Neale Hurston: “A Genius of the South”
John W. W. Zeiser reviews Peter Bagge's graphic biography "Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story."...
