MINOR AT HEART
It was safer to put your head down
An autobiographical comic from Matt Huynh called "Cabramatta" draws on the artist's experience as the son of refugees and a childhood spent near an open-air drug market.
Pencil and paper, drawing and writing
At PRINT magazine, Steven Heller talks to Washington University American Culture Studies professor and illustrator DB Dowd.
A notorious mind-weirding origin story
Journalist Jesse Jarnow has some characteristically smart stuff to say about cartoonist Brian Blomerth and his vibrant graphic novel Bicycle Day.
Sue Coe's incisive political art
Activist and graphic artist Sue Coe has been producing some fierce political art for The Nation magazine.
About
Dominic Umile lives, writes, and drinks in Brooklyn, NY. His criticism and features have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic, and more. Send him an email.