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Spotlight: Kate Gavino’s “You! Me! Dancing!”

  • Kate Gavino
  • November 5, 2015
The end of a decade-long dance party turns into a reflection on anxiety, community, and pop songs.
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Spotlight: “Bunny & Hawk” by Peter Witte

  • Peter Witte
  • October 22, 2015
Visual artist and writer Peter Witte examines beauty and violence in nature, and how sometimes it might be better to not tell everyone around you what you're seeing or thinking because it might turn out that they don't want to see or hear it.
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Spotlight: “Judgmental Reviews of Common Pasta Shapes”

  • John Leavitt
  • October 8, 2015
Writer and cartoonist John Leavitt talks about what we talk about when we talk about pasta.
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Spotlight: Matt Huynh’s The Boat

  • Matt Huynh
  • September 24, 2015
The Boat is an interactive graphic novel based on the acclaimed story by Nam Le. The project unites hand drawn artwork, animation, text, sound, and archive to explore this important moment in history.
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Spotlight: “Domestic Appliance Violence”

  • Xavier Almeida and Pato Bravo
  • September 10, 2015
Xavier Almeida and Pato Bravo present a dark and surreal comedy about fear and madness.
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Spotlight: TJ Murray’s “Pretend”

  • TJ Murray
  • August 27, 2015
“Pretend” is the first from a series of mini-comics about children being better adults than adults.
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Spotlight: James Kochalka and Sydney Lea’s “LEAF”

  • James Kochalka and Sydney Lea
  • August 13, 2015
LEAF, a collaboration from cartoonist James Kochalka and poet Sydney Lea, can be read as a meditation on change, or on mortality.
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Spotlight: Audrey Knight’s “How Not to Be Raped”

  • Audrey Knight
  • July 30, 2015
Writer and illustrator Audrey Knight examines one way to cope with a rape.
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Spotlight: The Old Man’s Illustrated Library, Issues 36 & 5

  • Johnny Damm
  • July 16, 2015
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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Spotlight: “If You Want to Write” by Summer Pierre

  • Summer Pierre
  • July 2, 2015
Cartoonist and illustrator Summer Pierre reflects on the fantasy and reality of the writer's life.
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Spotlight: Peter Witte’s “Bacon, Egg, & Oats”

  • Peter Witte
  • June 18, 2015
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.
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Spotlight: The Old Man’s Illustrated Library, Issue 16

  • Johnny Damm
  • June 4, 2015
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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