“Since I was a little kid, I’ve been drawing rabbits,” said Whitney Wasson. The Chicago-based comics artist and comedian said that rabbits are cute and easy to draw, which were two ideal qualities for their early childhood doodles. “[The drawing] could be terrible, but as long as you [make] long rabbit ears it reads as […]
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Posted inArts & Culture
Drawing beyond the margins
Black cartoonists from Chicago are featured in a new book and included in a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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The still-relevant satire Little Murders is the best movie in town this week
Chicago Film Society presents a rare 35-millimeter revival of Alan Arkin’s 1971 film adaptation of Jules Feiffer’s stage play.
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In Search of the Suburban Reader/Cooperative Cartooning
In Search of the Suburban Reader It was Pat Colander who spotted the eerie parallels: this paper’s readers and the inhabitants of Naperville, the DuPage County suburb 35 miles to the southwest, show up in the computer readouts as peas in a pod. An erstwhile Reader staff writer who made a name for herself chronicling […]