Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?

Yes: Our new comics-reviewing team gives 'em a look-see

"...Lot of amazing comic books and graphic novels and compilations of sequential art – or..."

May 10, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Eating My Way Through Two and a Half Decades of Comics

The Drawn and Quarterly 25th Anniversary Anthology

"...so after the initial mixing I always take the handle of the whisk between the palms of my hands..."

June 5, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...to focus on what this core group of twentysomethings and their myriad associates all over Austin do. That's the..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hey, Adults! Comics! Comics that are Funny, Weird, and Profound!

Reviewed: New School, Superzelda, My Dirty Dumb Eyes

"...1. Because you enjoy synergistic combinations of words and text, whether they're called comics or sequential art or..."

Sept. 2, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tomine & Beaton & Drawn & Quarterly: Yes, This

These two collections will rock your heart, brain, and funny bone

"...When Adrian Tomine's new collection – Killing and Dying – arrived in the mail from Drawn &..."

Sept. 19, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ben Katchor: Drawn, You Might Say, to the Texas Book Festival

The acclaimed cartoonist brings his Cheap Novelties to Austin

"...the first cartoonist to win a MacArthur Foundation award, and he points this out after I congratulate him on..."

Nov. 2, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pages And Pages of Free Comics

Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics

"...Day? Imagine record store day, but for comics. Oh, and they're free. The massive annual event for the comics..."

May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

What Is Going On With Ken Paxton and Nate Paul?

What we know – and don't know – about the strange connection between the embattled Austin real estate magnate and the Texas attorney general

"...the years, we'd both acquired some knowledge about Paul and his World Class property empire that we hadn't seen..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Pulp Hope and Crutches for a Crippled Crab

Paul Pope and Dean Haspiel knock it outta the park for Z2 Comics

"...by taking a good long drink from this dark and colorful vessel of a graphic album called Escapo –..."

Aug. 20, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Chris Ware and Seth at the Texas Book Festival

Two titans of sequential art, gabbing craftwise in Austin on Saturday

"...least, comics that depict other than the antics of Spandex-clad superbeings slugging the shit out of each other in..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post

The Good Eye: Hillary-Anne Crosby and the Print-cess Diaries

Behind the scenes with Vagina maga*zine

"...of Vagina. Like her "maga*zine," Crosby is both smart and stylish on a shoestring budget. Her apartment and closet..."

May 1, 2014 Photo Gallery

Three for You, and They're Coming Up Fast!

Click to know the current opps you know ain't gonna last

"...in the next few days: The Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata is hosting a shindig this Friday night,..."

July 12, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Why Only Art (and Maybe Love) Will Ever Save You

Lynda Barry and DIrty Diamonds and following your dreeeeeeeams.

"...as R.E.M. assured us back in the day – and sometimes that hurt is an existential sort of hurt..."

Dec. 10, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Duo From Drawn and Quarterly

'Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea' and 'Drawn and Quarterly Showcase #3'

"...Drawn and Quarterly, the independent comics company responsible for some..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Summer Reading

"...by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year in Books

Freedom, Finkler, and Kids of America

"...I didn't read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); I inhaled it, giddy with its untidy sprawl..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Your Library Wants These Bad

How do we recommend these books highly enough? What miracles of precision can be created with pen-and-ink?

"...you're unfamiliar with those strips? Then the intricately crosshatched, black-and-white realism here will break your heart for the first..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"..."genre fiction" – no, even worse, "Western novel" – and all my limited imagination coughs up is a moldering..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

Summer Reading

"...What with X-Men 3, Superman Returns, and Art School Confidential brightening movie theatres across the globe..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

'My Life in a Jugular Vein' and 'My Life In a Jugular Vein: Three More Years of Snakepit Comics'

New work from Joe Matt and Ben Snakepit

"...My Life in a Jugular Veinby Joe Matt Drawn & Quarterly, 124 pp., $19.95 My Life In a..."

July 27, 2007 Books Review by Mark Fagan

Summer Reading

Sarah Bird, Dupuy and Berberian, Karen Finley, Keith Graves, Amy Hempel, Carlo Lucarelli, Louise Welsh, and more

June 9, 2006 Books Feature

Top Books of 2018 That Make the Past Present

Whether in biography, graphic novel, crime fiction, or retold Greek myths, these books brought history to life

"...Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD (Twelve)..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Arts Feature by Jesse Sublett

A Drifting Life

This manga autobiography is the result of a decade's work by the acclaimed artist

"...A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi Drawn & Quarterly, 840 pp., $29.95 (paper)..."

May 8, 2009 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book

The inspirational, whimsical latest from graphic novelist Lynda Barry

"...Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Bookby Lynda Barry Drawn & Quarterly, 226 pp., $29.95..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

New in Graphic Novels

These are two books so ripe with sex, it's as if the subject has fermented in the pages

"...Books, 282 pp., $35 Paying for Itby Chester Brown Drawn & Quarterly, 288 pp., $24.95..."

June 10, 2011 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Exit Wounds

An insider's view that reveals a matter-of-fact acceptance of Middle East violence

"...Exit Woundsby Rutu Modan Drawn & Quarterly, 172 pp., $19.95 (paper)..."

May 8, 2009 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recent Graphic Novels You Shouldn’t Miss Out On

Book yourself some quality reading time AFK, why don’tcha?

"...one’s more like an illustrated short story, in fact, and there’s a collection of stories, and another collection of..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Book Review: The Hard Tomorrow

Eleanor Davis' graphic novel centers on a woman who's trying

"...police state? It’d be a fine, true, life-enriching thing, and it’s easier to imagine it now because we’re still..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Berlin

At last complete, Jason Lutes' graphic novel is a masterpiece

"...talk about the 18-year history of creating this masterwork. And the Texas Book Festival has wisely invited Lutes to..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

Five Graphic Novels That Will Supercharge Your Sequential Existence

A smattering of comics to keep your eyes busy

"...just-released book by saying "The frequent New Yorker cartoonist and longtime sequential artist Karl Stevens provides a biography, equally..."

May 21, 2021 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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