Palm trees and plenty of pink

For his comic Dry County, Rich Tommaso found design inspiration and color schemes in vintage crime paperbacks.

10/17/18 10/17/18

Tapes of everything

Discovery grounds the black and white debut graphic memoir from cartoonist Summer Pierre and has the artist examining music's role in pivotal life moments that unfurled during her 20s and earlier.

10/4/18 10/4/18

David Sandlin has been awake forever

Artist David Sandlin's carnivalesque comics mingle with politically charged paintings in new book Sleep of History

9/27/18 9/27/18

Artist-reporters and drawing the news

On comics reportage and my Hyperallergic piece on reporter-illustrator Olivier Kugler.

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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.