Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The Beauty of Sloppiness: Julia Wertz's Museum Of Mistakes

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In the original introduction that Peter Bagge wrote for the first Fart Party collection, he said of the webcomic proliferation of the early...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

The Exception That Proves The Rule: Julia Wertz's Impossible People

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There's a scene late in Impossible People , Julia Wertz's recovery memoir, where she meets New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Chast re...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Time for more Van Scivering!

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As a teacher and editor, Noah Van Sciver is one of my favorite examples to bring up of a cartoonist who had to work hard to find his voice, ...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Keith Knight's Good On Both Sides

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Gentleman Cartoonist Keith Knight is a polymath. From his days as a musician, to his TV show Woke (based on his own life), to his prolific ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Julia Gfrörer's bleak Vision

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An underlooked part of evaluating comics (and a highly subjective one) is the sheer visual appeal of the art. What is appealing is subjectiv...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Indy Life: Leslie Stein's Brooklyn's Last Secret

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Leslie Stein's work has veered between direct memoir and her "Eye Of The Majestic Creature" series, which is essentially fabul...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

The Perverseness of Nick Maandag: Harvey Knight's Odyssey

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As a comedic writer, Nick Maandag follows a kind of logic that defies standard expectations of what a comic narrative should be like. In his...