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A Look Inside Steve Mushin’s “Ultrawild”

September 9, 2025 No Comments

Ultrawild cover

What will the cities of the future look like? Could the solution to the environmental problems of today involve an unlikely use of poultry? In this excerpt from Steve Mushin’s ULTRAWILD: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth, Mushin explores an unlikely ally in transforming urban spaces. “According to experts, chickens have dreams, do basic math, and can solve simple problems by anticipating future events,” Mushin said in a recent interview. “They’re also the perfect soil-making engineers to help us transform the world’s roughly 2 billion roofs into vertical gardens.” Read on to see what that might look like.

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Inside a New Collection of Howard Chaykin’s Marvel Comics Work

August 14, 2025 No Comments

Cover art for Lost Marvels, Volume 2

For decades, Howard Chaykin has made an impact on the world of comics – both through groundbreaking work like American Flagg and more recent graphic novels like the period mystery Satellite Sam. The new anthology Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1 collects some of Chaykin’s work for Marvel Comics, specifically his work featuring the characters Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle.

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Revisiting a Quarter Century in Comics: Jeff Lemire on “10,000 Ink Stains”

July 30, 2025 No Comments

Jeff Lemire

I’ve been reading Jeff Lemire‘s comics for over twenty years now, ranging from the psychological complexity of Royal City to the unnerving road narrative of Phantom Road. I’d spoken with Lemire once before, and had the opportunity to chat with him again about the release of his new memoir, 10,000 Ink Stains, a candid and insightful look at his career in comics thus far.

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An Excerpt From Simon Bournel-Bosson’s “Trumpets of Death”

July 29, 2025 No Comments

TRUMPETS OF DEATH cover

Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Trumpets of Death, a new graphic novel from Simon Bournel-Bosson and translated by Edward Gauvin. In a review at Foreword Reviews, Peter Dabbene praised the graphic novel, writing, “The story reads like a dream, with touches of fantasy like an impossible trail of mushrooms, or the central transformation from boy to deer. But it’s also grounded in emotional truths and the intergenerational tension between Antoine and Gilbert.” Trumpets of Death will be published on August 5, 2025; until then, this excerpt will give you a sense of what to expect.

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A New Documentary Explores the Life of Comics Pioneer Denis Kitchen

June 4, 2025 No Comments

"Oddly Compelling"

There’s currently a Kickstarter campaign underway for the documentary Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story. Among the incentives for this project are — as you might guess — some actual comics. Specifically, in 1972 Kitchen drew the cover for a comic which otherwise didn’t exist, titled The Giant Penis That Invaded New York. (The cover is exactly what you think it is.)

Below, you can see the trailer for the documentary — as well as contributions from Noah Van Sciver and Hilary Barta. (And, yes, this is extremely NSFW.)

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Ali Fitzgerald on the Magic of Animals and the Power of Comics

May 29, 2025 No Comments

Ali Fitzgerald

The idea for Ali Fitzgerald’s new graphic novel, Squeak Chatter Bark, came to her in a dream. In the middle of the night, at an artist residency in France, Fitzgerald imagined a young girl in a biosphere whose parents had gone missing. To track them down, the girl would have to collaborate and communicate with a fantastic array of critter pals.

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Paul Karasik On the Graphic Novel Adaptations of Paul Auster’s “New York Trilogy”

May 19, 2025 No Comments

Paul Karasik Author Photo Photo by Ray Ewing[1]

The New York Trilogy is author Paul Auster’s best-known work, a collection of three interconnected stories: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. All three employ the twists and mysteries found in detective fiction with existentialist exploration of the human condition.

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Steve Cuzor’s “The Red Badge of Courage” Adaptation Has a Trailer

May 5, 2025 No Comments

Steve Cuzor is no stranger to telling stories about men at war. His bibliography includes the Black Cotton Star series of graphic novels, which tell a story that spans centuries, including sequences in both the Revolutionary War and World War II. Now, he’s returned with his adaptation of Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage, due out this month from Abrams ComicArts.