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Graphic Novel

Arts

The Making of Daniel Clowes

As an “angry young man,” Ghost World author Daniel Clowes insulted Stan Lee and Art Spiegelman in a graphic novel’s satirical alternate reality. It was born from a nagging self-doubt that, despite the cartoonist’s current recognition and status, lingers.

Robert Ito California Sunday Feb 2016 15min Permalink

History Religion

Q&A With Art Spiegelman, Creator of ‘Maus’

“And the Holocaust trumps art every time.”

David Samuels, Art Spiegelman Tablet Nov 2013 25min Permalink

Arts Sex

The Erotic Antagonism of Gengoroh Tagame

On Japanese writer Gengoroh Tagame, who creates gay manga work “in the artistic tradition of Pasolini, de Sade, Yukio Mishima and Lolita.”

Chris Randle Hazlitt Jun 2013 10min Permalink

Best Article

Penis Rays, Self-Loathing and Psychic Voodoo

Autobiographical cartoonists on truth and lies.

Kim O'Connor The Awl Aug 2012 35min Permalink

Interview with Joe Sacco

On comics and journalism:

Now, when you draw, you can always capture that moment. You can always have that exact, precise moment when someone’s got the club raised, when someone’s going down. I realize now there’s a lot of power in that.

Hillary Chute, Joe Sacco The Believer Jun 2011 15min Permalink

Arts Religion

R. Crumb: The Art of Comics, No. 1

An interview with R. Crumb on how he adapted Genesis into comic form.

R. Crumb, Ted Widmer The Paris Review Jun 2010 45min Permalink