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- Oct 1, 2026
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Dancing With The Sheyd - The Comics Journal (opens the original)
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Rotem Anna Diamant came to my attention with their minicomic Cute Nose. Art examples posted online were strikingly unlike anything that might come immediately to mind. Perhaps the panels resembled animation cels of foregrounded figures going about their motions, but printed small and absent painted backgrounds, the sort of stories they’d be telling were left a mystery. The drawings were indeed cute, but not in a pejorative sense, nothing you could point at accusingly as being in thrall to the tr
Marie Lorenz: Nautical Milemarker - The Comics Journal (opens the original)
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The strips that ran in the free Providence comics newspaper Paper Rodeo were largely anonymous, although the trained eye learned to identify individual styles, and associate them with works credited to an artist. Brian Chippendale’s work is identifiable by its stamp lettering and “read-like-a-snake” layouts. Mat Brinkman’s Multi-Force runs in all of its nineteen issues, with a set of narrative threads, and has been collected by Picturebox and Hollow Press. Co-editor Leif Goldberg’s anthropomorph
Hide And Seek - The Comics Journal (opens the original)
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Naono Yoshiko, translated by Ryan Holmberg Children are always screaming, or so it seems, from the Drifting Classroom of Kazuo Umezz, or the sounds of a schoolyard. But it is not the case. Sometimes things are quite quiet, and it is in this quiet where despair lies, the cousin to the melancholy of childhood that so much of the best art about childhood touches on. The feelings evoked by Naono Yoshiko’s manga — dubbed “trauma shojo,” a genre designation I had never seen before, and collected in th
Caught Lookin' 1 - The Comics Journal (opens the original)
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There is likely no better entry-point to the world of emerging contemporary cartoonists than the anthology Cram. If you find the Tinfoil and Cowlick anthologies of Floyd Tangeman impenetrable, or Rust Belt Review dull as scissors that no longer cut, Cram has included work by Tangeman as well as Rust Belt highlight Audra Stang, a broad spectrum approach to curation. The risograph-printed pages include a great many cartoonists under forty but also several older artists that make the whole thing fe
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