Spotlight: The Old Man’s Illustrated Library, Issues 36 & 5
The Old Man’s Illustrated Library appropriates elements from Classics Illustrated in a series of vignettes depicting elderly male authors alone in their apartments.
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All Over Coffee, the Eviction Series #2: Mine, Mine, Mine
Losing my home was bad enough, but this was my studio too. My livelihood.
HORN! REVIEWS: The First Bad Man
Cheryl Glickman has a system for maintaining a low-friction life. When she trades total control for knowledge, the soap bubble pops...
Spotlight: “If You Want to Write” by Summer Pierre
Cartoonist and illustrator Summer Pierre reflects on the fantasy and reality of the writer's life.
Spotlight: Peter Witte’s “Bacon, Egg, & Oats”
Visual artist and writer Peter Witte is unsure whether the killing of a sentient being is problematic, but he wishes that bacon, one of his favorite foods, could exist without all the suffering.
All Over Coffee, the Eviction Series #1: Marlowe Cafe
Out of the corner of my eye I could see her glancing my way, then she leaned close and barked, "Usurper."
Spotlight: The Old Man’s Illustrated Library, Issue 16
The Old Man’s Illustrated Library appropriates elements from Classics Illustrated in a series of vignettes depicting elderly male authors alone in their apartments.
HORN! REVIEWS: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
A minor masterpiece of perspective, it demands another life in print.
Spotlight: “It Happened So Fast” by Lexie Smith
Artist Lexie Smith explores the relationship between language and visual context.
Spotlight: Will Moore’s “On Nonfiction”
"On Nonfiction" is an attempt to combine comics and the essay. It forms a part of Will Moore's larger work-in-progress that includes, among other topics, meditations on pants, noises, friendship, and Miley Cyrus.
HORN! REVIEWS: The Buried Giant
...the hard part is answering the question, would you trade peace for memory?
Spotlight: Small Stories #11
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.