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Edward Steed’s Posthuman Comedy
Ivan Kreilkamp “blasts through ordinary perception” in Edward Steed’s “Forces of Nature: A Book of Drawings.”
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954
Common Roots
Martin Dolan explores labor, trade, and shared humanity in Craig Thompson’s “Ginseng Roots.”
Revolution of Our Times
Graham J. Murphy considers Badiucao and Melissa Chan’s “You Must Take Part in Revolution.”
The Common Man Is Coming into His Own
Michael Kobre considers the Fantastic Four superhero “The Thing” and Jack Kirby’s relationship to his own Judaism.
Intuitive, Impractical Passions
Dan Nadel on the work of legendary underground cartoonist, artist, and sculptor Michael McMillan.
Mafalda
The LARB Quarterly presents an excerpt from Quino’s “Mafalda,” translated by Frank Wynne, in issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
The Comforts of Horror
Daniel Lukes reviews Charles Burns’s “Final Cut” and “Kommix.”
A Reluctant Übermensch
D. Harlan Wilson reviews Keanu Reeves and China Miéville’s “The Book of Elsewhere.”
The Contours of Negative Space: On Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts”
Martin Dolan reviews Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts.”
Art, Freedom, and a Menagerie: On Ai Weiwei’s “Zodiac”
Melissa Chan reviews “Zodiac” by Ai Weiwei.
Telling an Honest Story: A Conversation with Sammy Harkham
Kevin Koczwara chats with Sammy Harkham about his grindhouse-inspired new graphic novel “Blood of the Virgin,” the burdens of balancing family life with art, and making meaning through storytelling while remaining unpredictable.
What Drove Popeye to the Picket Line: The Story of “Fleischer’s Animated News”
“Fleischer’s Animated News,” an animation industry comic from the 1930s, satirized working conditions similar to those motivating the Hollywood strikes today, as Paul Morton discusses.
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