João, he is mystery
At Longreads, writer Tom Maxwell remembers Brazilian songwriter, masterful jazz guitarist, and bossa nova pioneer João Gilberto, who passed away in Rio de Janeiro on July 6th. From Maxwell: Gilberto...
View ArticleBold flyers and breakbeats in 1970s-era Bronx
At AIGA’s Eye on Design, writer Jerome Harris looks at unsung graphic designer PHASE 2’s hand-distributed photocopied flyers “made from Letraset, markers, cut-up photographs, and glue” in 1970s-era...
View ArticleSue Coe’s incisive political art
Activist and graphic artist Sue Coe has been producing some fierce political art for The Nation magazine. Last year, I wrote about a solo exhibition of hers at Long Island City’s MoMA PS1 that...
View ArticleA notorious mind-weirding origin story
Cultural journalist, author, and all-around nice guy Jesse Jarnow has a new column at Aquarium Drunkard—in its debut installment, he has some characteristically smart stuff to say about cartoonist...
View ArticlePencil and paper, drawing and writing
At PRINT magazine, Steven Heller talks to Washington University American Culture Studies professor and illustrator DB Dowd, whose ongoing illustrated journal of graphic nonfiction Spartan Holiday has...
View ArticleIt was safer to put your head down
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...
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