Famous Rapes #3: Lynching and “The One Crime”
The KKK, The Birth of a Nation, and the origins of The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.
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Spotlight: Dylan Glynn
Dylan Glynn meanders between the bright and the spooky in his Who Are You series.
Spotlight: Dickson Lam and Ted Closson
Writer Dickson Lam and illustrator Ted Closson team up on a graphic story about Lam’s life called “You Think This Is Your House?”
Spotlight: Worried Tomato
Oliver Bendorf, a writer/editor/cartoonist, gives us a glimpse into the mindset of anxious produce.
Famous Rapes #2: Marital Rape
This is the second in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape, as seen through different time periods.
Spotlight: Alexander Rothman
If comics are sequential art—art that tells a story using a sequence of images—then Alexander Rothman’s work is, to use his term, “sequential verse.”
Famous Rapes #1: Old Master Paintings
This is the first in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape as seen through different time periods.
Spotlight: Perrin Ireland
Perrin Ireland’s work combines art with science, using shape and color to tell visual stories about cerebral subjects like microbiomes and the Higgs-Boson particle.
Spotlight: Boco Watches the Sea
I asked Boco, "What was the coast guard like?" He said it was lonely.
Spotlight: Frog Heaven
A beautiful, amphibious comic from writer and illustrator Colter Jackson.
Spotlight: Adrienne Celt
Writer and cartoonist Adrienne Celt imagines the complicated inner lives of animals in her comics.
Spotlight: In San Francisco, There Is a Street
A comic based on a French children’s song found in a book by Georges Perec, who found it in a book by Paul Eluard, who heard some French children singing…