French Comics Festival Pulls Guest of Honor after Critics Say His Work Promotes Child Abuse
French comics' author Bastien Vives and two of his publishers have been accused of promoting incest and child pornography.
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Suburban Underground
Shary Flenniken's radical comic "Trots and Bonnie" brought feminism to the pages of the National Lampoon.
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Funny Business: Two Comics Anthologies
Two recent volumes from NYRB Comics—Gary Panter's "Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise" and "It's Life As I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980"—highlight the artistry and ingenuity of an…
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Composite Realities
In some of von Wulffen's paintings, a crackled varnish applied to the surface splits like dried skin; the works want to look old. Some motifs may be traced back to sources like a late…
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Weird Main Character: Walter K. Scott’s Playlist
Canadian artist Walter K. Scott is the subject of the "First Look" column in our January issue. Wendy's Revenge, his second volume of collected comic-strips, was published by Koyama Press last…
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A Crack in the Mirror: On Pushwagner’s Soft City
The cult comic Soft City, which will be released in large-format hardcover on October 4th from the comics imprint of the New York Review of Books, has an origin story as strange as its creator…
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Comics in America: A Panel at Frieze Art Fair
At the 2016 Frieze Art Fair in New York, Nadel and Worth joined A.i.A. editor Julia Wolkoff in a conversation about the intriguing complexity of comics, a format where virtuosic draftsmanship can be…
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Technically Funny: Ben Jones on Television
All of the art collectives Ben Jones has been involved in—most visibly Paper Radio with Christopher Forgues and Paper Rad with Jacob and Jessica Ciocci—have been characterized by a weird mix of punk s…
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Punk and Hippie
The Paper Radio duo of Benjamin Jones and Christopher Forgues, with their DIY aesthetic and countercultural convictions—sometimes aggressive, sometimes mellow—helped transform alternative comics in th…
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Comics: Drawn Together
Merging artists and audience, Dune, a cafe-based event in Seattle, enables cartoonists—from would-be to established—to draft pages side by side once a month and immediately self-publish…
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