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.
Tag: science fiction
It came from the deep
Artist Wesley Allsbrook’s most recent piece for The New Yorker is dense with sinewy lines and appropriately aquatic-themed.
The Solar Grid, Soft City, and Equinoxes
In the first chapter of a topical digital sci-fi comic called The Solar Grid from Egyptian street artist, writer, graphic designer, and critic Ganzeer, “human civilization is in ruins.”
The early Internet: Joshua Cotter and Jesse Jarnow
Josh Cotter’s 2016 Fantagraphics comic and Jesse Jarnow’s reported book for Da Capo Press have me thinking about the marvels of Internet technology — both real and imagined.