Named for the suburb of southwestern Sydney, Australia, where his family settled after having fled their war-torn homeland of Vietnam, a black and white 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.
Tag: magazines
The end of MAD, once a boon in comics’ end-times
At The Nation, Jeet Heer writes about the impact of MAD magazine and references its origins, which came at a tumultuous time for the comic book industry and for EC Comics publisher William Gaines.
Gordon Parks’s photography of a “Harlem Gang Leader”
In 1948, Gordon Parks’s photography of a Harlem gang involved getting its dangerous members to trust him, so that he could spend time shooting them and talking to them about what life was like as a “Midtowner.”
It took a long, long, long time
These are the pieces of reporting, essays, culture writing, etc. that stayed with me over the course of 2017.