In 2018, the Reader ran a cover story: “Julie Doucet is done making comics.” The underground artist famously abandoned the scene in 2006, leaving fans of her cult-classic series Dirty Plotte and graphic novels like My New York Diary bereft. Through the years, her autobiographical comics became renowned in the canon. She explored other art […]
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The scene report from space
Elaborate hologram displays. A satellite planet. A mysterious deity. On the surface, Lane Milburn’s rollicking sci-fi graphic novel Lure doesn’t have much to do with Chicago. But Milburn drew inspiration from his old neighborhood, his punk band, his friends, and his near-decade living in the city. Lure takes place on an alternate earth, orbited by […]
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Phillip Foss in El
The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel.
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Started from the Bottomyards, now we’re gentrified
A hyper-colored, Afrofuturistic graphic novel captures how white privilege feeds on Black neighborhoods.
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Lit recs for people who are trying to clear out their TBR piles
Nick Drnaso’s New Year’s reading resolutions are Anne Elizabeth Moore’s New Year’s reading resolutions.
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt tells the story of the philosopher’s life and thoughts in pictures
Or how gag cartoonist Ken Krimstein took the plunge into midcentury philosophy.
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Caridad Svich attempts a “graphic novel for the stage” with De Troya
The result is neither graphic nor novel, only a sluggish, muddy blur.
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Nick Drnaso’s second graphic novel, Sabrina, examines the perils of living too long in your own head
Are you actually deranged? Or is it the rest of the world?
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Getting ‘Graphic!’ at the Chicago Humanities Festival
A preview of four talks this weekend
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130 comic artists team up to finish friend’s graphic novel after he dies at 43
They’ll be fund-raising for (Fucking) Forty at C2E2 this weekend.
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The graphic novel Imagine Wanting Only This turns comics into poetry
Kristen Radtke’s essay in images explores loss, ruins, and restlessness.
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Jill Flanagan of Forced Into Femininity takes her underground scene to task
Jill Flanagan of Forced Into Femininity takes her underground scene to task, the Era throw a listening party for their first ‘footwork mixtape,’ and more.
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Sixteen fun facts about 16 cartoonists who changed the world
Local illustrator/designer Monte Beauchamp has two excellent new books out for devotees of comics and pulps.
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Ants in dialogue in the work of Michael DeForge
Indie comic artist Michael DeForge’s new graphic novel depicts a chatty, grotesque, anthropomorphic Ant Colony.
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Art Spiegelman’s era of neosincerity
A brief summary of Art Spiegelman’s talk with W.J.T. Mitchell at the University of Chicago