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Brooklyn Cartoonists Make A Scene
This weekend, cartoonists will get to escape their drawing boards for a day of artist signings, discussions and live music. Over 50 vendors will sell their 'zines, comics, books, prints and posters as...
View Article'Kick Ass' Creator on Watching his Characters on the Big Screen
We talk with John Romita, Jr., co-creator of the "Kick-Ass" comic book series, and regular illustrator on "Daredevil," "Iron Man," "Wolverine," and "Spider Man." Romita tells us how it feels to see his...
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The Best Graphic Novels Right Now
This week, thousands of book industry retailers, agents, authors, and hangers-on have been gathering in New York for the annual BookExpo America conference. Patrik Henry Bass, senior editor of Essence...
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Bloomsday Seen and Heard
James Joyces' Ulysses chronicles the wanderings of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day: Thursday, June 16, 1904. The 16th has become known as Bloomsday, and literary types and fans of...
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Inside Comic-Con with Gerard Jones
Today through Sunday, tens of thousands of people will descend upon San Diego for the 41st annual Comic-Con International Convention. The largest such convention in the world, Comic-Con has gone from...
View ArticleGoodbye, Cathy, and Good Riddance (for Some)
Cathy Guisewite announced on Wednesday that she’ll be ending her “Cathy” comic strip on October 3. The creator described her decision to kill off Cathy (the character), who is often pictured pulling...
View ArticleThis Week: Must See Arts in the City
The graphic paintings of a punk artist, pulp-fiction inspired collage, geometric street art, Nigerian popular videos and a very dirty rendering of Plato at an art book fair in Queens. Here's your guide...
View ArticlePeter Parker Replaced By Miles Morales: The New Spider-Man
The latest issue of the long-running Spider-Man comic book series comes out today, and there's a brand-new protagonist. Miles Morales, a half-Latino, half-African-American teenager is taking over the...
View ArticlePeter Parker to Miles Morales: A New Spider-Man Is Born
Everybody was talking about Spider-Man this week. But it wasn't the dangers of the Broadway show, or the latest actor to be playing Spidey on the silver screen. Most conversation revolved around the...
View ArticleArt Spiegelman and Hillary Chute on MetaMaus
Art Spiegelman revisits his Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, published 25 years ago. In MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus, edited and based on interviews by Hillary Chute, he probes the...
View ArticleNew York's Comic Con Kicks Off in Manhattan, Superheroes and All
New York Comic Con kicked off at the Javits Center on Thursday, and fans were out in full force. Only those with four-day VIP passes and industry professionals, including writers and artists, had...
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Truth, Jawlines And The American Way: The Changing Face Of Superman
Superman has gotten a makeover — well, another makeover — two years ahead of turning 75 years old in 2013. As the first and most widely known representative of the spandexed set, Superman remains the...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
The intersection of Tibet and comic books at the Rubin, a Brazilian street artist at Jonathan LeVine, a (sort of) final showing at a Bushwick space and optical illusions in an empty West Village...
View ArticleA Conversation with 'Maus' Creator Art Spiegelman
In 1973, Art Spiegelman published a three-page comic strip in a small underground publication called "Funny Animals." It was the first installment of what he called "Maus," the biography of...
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Tibet, Through the Lens of Comics
Conceptions of Tibet are the subject of a new exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art that aims to examine the region through the lens of comics. The exhibit, "Hero, Villain, Yeti," includes more than 50...
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Catharsis In A Cape: On Comic-Book Heroes And Real-World Violence
What is Batman for? The whole idea's ridiculous, always has been. Guy dresses up like a bat to scare criminals. Shyeah. Not something that can truly chill the blood — a snake, say, or a spider — but a...
View ArticleSenate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency: Wertham Versus Gaines On Decency...
The investigation continues! The evils of horror comics are explicated by two contrasting witnesses, Dr. Fredric Wertham, a reserved psychiatrist, and William Gaines, the chief purveyor of such lurid...
View ArticleCreations, Myths, and the Untold Story of Marvel Comics
Good guys, bad guys, and enforcers of the American way. No, we’re not talking about politics. We’re talking about comic book heroes! And specifically those from the multi-billion dollar powerhouse,...
View ArticleComic Con Descends on New York City
Costumed superheroes and villains, comic book lovers, sci-fi fans and video game avatars will descend on the Javits Center this weekend for New York Comic Con. Industry-watchers will be keeping a close...
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'Take This Job And Planet!': Why Clark Kent Quit His Day Job
By now you've likely heard that in the pages of Superman #13, on stands today, Clark Kent quits his once-beloved great metropolitan newspaper.Disillusioned by his employer's increasing predilection for...
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