At Westfield Comics Blog, comics artist/writer Rich Tommaso talks about Dry County, a now-collected five-issue comic that’s both a tribute to detective pulp fiction and lightly rooted in autobiography.
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Tapes of everything
Before “music discovery” meant algorithm-driven recommendation engines, we found bands and DJs and record labels through radio shows, record shops, mixtapes, and other tangible interactions with human beings.
David Sandlin has been awake forever
Artist David Sandlin had only been in New York City for a couple of years when he was plastering downtown Manhattan’s concrete building facades with graphic silkscreened posters to promote his solo exhibition at Kwok Gallery in 1983*.
Artist-reporters and drawing the news
A new book called Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees collects the graphic reportage that Olivier Kugler has contributed to a number of magazines and newspapers over the years.