Rumpus Comics
Spotlight: “Where Women’s Stories Go to Die”
An exploration of the toxic misogyny women artists experience in the workplace.
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HORN! REVIEWS: How to Read Donald Duck
As relevant now as it was in 1971, this book pulls the thread of the mouse…
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Spotlight: “Fashion Dos and Don’ts 2050: Climate Apocalypse Edition”
A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Autonomous
The future depicted is socially grim, suggesting some things never change…
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Spotlight: “Moon Moth” by Dylan Webb
In “Moon Moth,” Dylan Webb braids narratives amidst puppy love and quiet woods.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Station Eleven
It’s a masterpiece of structure, connecting our epoch inevitably to the next through artifacts and accounts…
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Doll’s Alphabet
Like tinned meat years after the war, there’s something sweetly off about these stories…
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Spotlight: “Survivors” by Aubrey Hirsch
But more and more I began to wonder if you needed to be human to be a person.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Gulliver’s Travels
In a perfectly blameless Work of Fact, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver gets his perspective flipped…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Emergent Strategy
This hybrid manifesto/spell book/toolkit applies the most utopian ideas of Octavia Butler to organizing…
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Spotlight: “My Grandfather’s Seders” by Joey Perr
The artist’s father remembers his grandfather’s Passover Seders.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Brave New World
If capitalism and communism had a baby, that baby would be decanted, not born.
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Spotlight: “Fifteen” by Kevin Reilly
On a quiet night in 1987, a teenage boy receives transmissions from beyond.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Barbarous Century
HORN! Reviews shares a beautifully illustrated review of The Barbarous Century by Leah Umansky.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Sing, Unburied, Sing
…in the bittersweet end, even ghosts have a hard time of it.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Heart Berries
Mailhot applies the storytelling tradition to her own rather improbable life…
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Spotlight: “Rooftops of My Youth” by Frances Cannon
A comic describing the illustrator’s childhood adventures and misadventures climbing rooftops of all sorts.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Achieving Our Country
What’s needed (still) is less theory, more reform; less knowledge, more poetry; less Foucault, more Whitman.
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Spotlight: “In Memory Of” by Aubrey Nolan
A comic about remembering a person who has passed away, and how that process changes over time.
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Spotlight: “Perfect Sisters” by Joyanna M and Lily Bell
“Sister Love” touches on how a traditional family can fail the victim of domestic violence, and how that failure can compound the victim’s trauma.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Her Body and Other Parties
Sounds come from just outside—and then just outside that.
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HORN! REVIEWS: American War
War takes and takes, and what’s left untouched is locked up in the past, reachable only by memory.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Walden
While he doesn’t offer all the answers we want, he reminds us that we don’t see things as they are, which is key to anything.
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Spotlight: “The Killers” by Dasha Zibrova
My own cat Moorka, with whom I have long and fruitful but complicated relationship, inspired this comic strip.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Strangers in Their Own Land
What makes outdoorsy Cajuns tolerate oil companies poisoning their land? The short answer: white identity politics.
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