A New Kind of Superhero
Not your average comic, Priya’s Shakti is a new graphic novel out of India created to combat gender-based violence and fight the patriarchy. The hero, Priya, is a rape survivor…
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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.
The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Scott Cunningham and Peter Kuper
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights at 7-9…
Spotlight: Nick Francis Potter
"Conrad Dillinger's Inevitable Death," from artist and writer Nick Francis Potter
Peter Parker, the Very Human Superhero
Take a peep at this The Millions essay for some reasons why Spider-man is such a likeable character. In the end, he was profiting off of violence, on fights that he…
Passwords, Past and Present
Has Heartbleed got you stressed over your online security? Take comfort knowing that humans have been searching for the elusive perfect password for centuries—over at The Morning News, Mike Duncan…
A New Interview with MariNaomi
Rumpus cartoonist MariNaomi is interviewed over at Panel Patter about her new book Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories as well as life as a autobiographical cartoonist: Whit: Do you…
A National Poetry Month Special: “Bones” by Melissa Broder, Illustrated by Paul Tunis
When Paul Tunis emailed me and asked if I'd be interested in looking at a comic he'd drawn in collaboration with the poet Melissa Broder, my answer was an unequivocal yes.