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March 1, 2023
A Comic That Captures the Antic Energy of a Post-Truth World
A conversation with the makers of The Department of Truth, a comic series that examines the intersection of American conspiracy and Western propaganda.
ML Kejera
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February 23, 2023
Jay Jackson’s Audacious Comics
Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos offered its readers a science-fiction epic that imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.
Jeet Heer
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December 14, 2022
The Radical Internationalism of the Spanish Civil War
A new graphic history charts the exploits of those Americans serving in the war’s International Brigades.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
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December 5, 2022
The Queen of Candor: Aline Kominsky-Crumb 1948–2022
Her fearless autobiographical stories revolutionized cartooning.
Jeet Heer
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September 9, 2022
Manga Hulks Its Way to the Top
Japanese comics have become an undisputed juggernaut of the publishing industry.
Viken Berberian
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May 4, 2022
Don’t Fear a Red Planet: The Story of the World’s Only Native Comic Shop
Lee Francis IV turned an empty hair salon into a space for “Indigenerds” to let their imaginations run wild.
Cecilia Nowell
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February 21, 2022
I Helped Publish “Maus.” Never Once Have I Regretted It.
If you truly want a teenager to read any book with gusto, the first thing you need to do is, of course, ban it.
Tom Engelhardt
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February 4, 2022
What Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” Means to the Children of Survivors
On banning the book that changed what we talk about when we talk about the Holocaust.
Linda Mannheim
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January 25, 2022
The Surprising History of the Comic Book
Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.
J. Hoberman
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November 23, 2021
The Radical World of Chicago’s Black Comic Artists
An anthology of Black comic book makers from the the postwar era offers a glimpse into a genre of art that skewered the bigotry of white liberalism.
Zito Madu