by Michael Dooley
September 29, 2010
A floating bed of nails is ablaze. A crying child floats down a river in a coffin. Disembodied hands drip blood from the sky. These are just a few "Scenes from the Afterlife," a.k.a., the 2010 Blab Show. It premiered at the Society of Illustrators' Museum of American Illustration in New York, and is now [...]
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by Bill Kartalopoulos
July 13, 2010
Harvey Pekar did not invent autobiographical comics. In the American comics tradition alone, the pioneering female cartoonist Fay King regularly inserted herself as a character in her Jazz Age cartoons and comic strips. Robert Crumb, the illustrator of some of Pekar’s most memorable works, took the self as a subject in several of his own [...]
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