Comics scholar Philip Smith positions Richard McGuire’s graphic novel Here within the “cli-fi” genre—”science fiction which addresses the actuality of climate change” in the new issue of INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society.
Category: Recent Reads
Seymour Chwast’s graphic war on war
For his sequel to 1957’s A Book of Battles, graphic design legend Seymour Chwast chronicles 5,000 years of the world’s wars in a new volume’s black and white illustrations.
A great big space
Summer Pierre’s comics and textured realist drawings partner well in the September 2017 installment of Paper Pencil Life, the fifth issue of the New York-based cartoonist and freelance illustrator’s self-published serial collection of her work.
Cultural warrior Wertham
The Village Voice has an extensive profile Dr. Fredric Wertham, the German-born American psychiatrist who played an enormous role in a feverish morality campaign against comic books that eventually crippled the industry and killed jobs for lots of people.