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Whether we like it or not, entertainment has become the continuing education for most of America’s adult population. I’m sure I’m not the only one who learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre from the ...
It’s funnybook o’ clock and you’re just in time: Helen Chazan discusses Joe Matt’s final installment in Peepshow #15 and what is not even close to the first issue in the series of Caroline Cash’s ...
Cathy, Cathy Guisewite’s eponymous chronicle of one woman’s struggles with the “four guilt groups: food, love, family, and work,” ends not with a bang, but a simper. She visits her mom, claiming to ...
Wowwee Zowwee and Holy Hell! These are the kinds of well-articulated thoughts that zip through my mind when I’m holding Blood of the Virgin: Crickets Colour Special Number One by the one and only ...
Zap Comix didn’t kick off the underground press scene of the sixties, but it serves as a model of what was at stake in the shift from the button-down, nuclear-family '50s to the radicalism and drug ...
The 1973 adult animation feature film Belladonna of Sadness (Kanashimi no Beradonna) was birthed into the world by Mushi Productions, the animation production studio founded and eventually abandoned ...
Comics can be like your family. Both have the power to start shaping you long before you even have any consciousness of yourself as a separate being. If you don’t break free of them, they are a ...
I have three copies of Tintin in America. These are: The 2018 softcover color edition from Egmont (bought as a part of the massive Tintin Box Set, which contains all books bar Tintin in the Congo), ...
Jay Stephens, in a graveyard on Manitoulin Island (photo by John Stephens). All artwork throughout this interview by Stephens, unless otherwise noted. JASON BERGMAN: I'm glad we're talking, because ...
Publicity photo of Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Photo by Doug Bayne. Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy ...