Spotlight: Kevin Gwozdz
In “Do Not Moves Stones,” Kevin Gwozdz pays homage to Sappho—and says goodbye to a former lover.
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We Used to Be So Close
We used to share so much of ourselves with each other, so much so that our exchanged thoughts and dreams became an energy field of their own.
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HORN! REVIEWS:
Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
Another great illustrated book review from Horn!
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Spotlight: Triumph Over Bad Thoughts
Italian illustrator and comic artist Silvia Carrus shows us how to triumph over bad thoughts.
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HORN! REVIEWS:
Forest of Fortune
Thunderclap Casino is built on luck, but nothing happens there by chance.
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Crossovers #2: Reporting Live from the Cultural Borderlines at the Comic Book Theater Festival
The Comic Book Theater Festival runs from June 3rd–29th at The Brick in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Crossovers #1: Reporting Live from the Cultural Borderlines at the Comic Book Theater Festival
The Comic Book Theater Festival runs from June 3rd–29th at The Brick in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Spotlight: Summer Pierre, Part 2
Illustrator, cartoonist, and writer Summer Pierre remembers a scene of summertime heartbreak.
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Spotlight: Summer Pierre, Part 1
Illustrator, cartoonist, and writer Summer Pierre takes us to visit Penny the elephant at the San Francisco zoo.
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Spotlight: Nick Francis Potter
“Conrad Dillinger’s Inevitable Death,” from artist and writer Nick Francis Potter
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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Original 1982 by Lori Carson
I was only starting to let myself feel what I had lost 14 years earlier, when I had reluctantly placed our third child – the only one I managed to deliver – with an adoptive family. Like Lori Carson, I was love-haunted. Unlike Carson, I had no words.
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HORN! REVIEWS:
An Untamed State
The most powerful writing comes in the aftermath of captivity.
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Spotlight: Iris Gottlieb
Illustrator Iris Gottlieb considers the wide world of seating options.
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CA Bookstore Day Exclusive: Three Panel Book Review of The Goldfinch
Celebrate Rumpus illustrator Lisa Brown’s new book release, California Bookstore Day, and Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer in a single post.
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Spotlight: A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch
Writer and illustrator A.K. Summers’s new graphic memoir, Pregnant Butch, looks at the increasingly common but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity.
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Spotlight: Thoughts While Reading
Sophie Lucido Johnson illustrates her thoughts while reading To the Lighthouse, The Sun Also Rises, American Pastoral, and more!
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Spotlight: Ben Nadler and Alyssa Berg
Writer Ben Nadler and illustrator Alyssa Berg team up on a graphic story titled “The Broadway Express.”
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Saturday Rumpus Comic: Fire Sign
Yumi Sakugawa brings us another beautiful comic focused on fire.
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Spotlight: Ali Shapiro
Ali Shapiro doles out some exceedingly practical advice for job-hunting with the qualifications of a creative writer.
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HORN! REVIEWS:
Southern Cross the Dog
Kevin Thomas reviews Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng, Rumpus Comics style:
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The Rumpus Interview with James Vance
We talk to James Vance about the Great Depression, creeping pessimism, and the challenges of exploring these subjects in comics form in his new graphic novel On the Ropes.
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