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..."

Sept. 19, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hey, Grownups! More Graphic Novels!

Three new releases from those geeky savants at Fantagraphics

"...Looking for a gift for some comics-loving friend this holiday..."

Dec. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Best of Print 1995

Words: Printed, Spoken, and Painted

"...1995. It wasn't the best year in book publishing: Martin Amis - genius or con man?..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Books Feature

Austin Arts Happenings Online: A Chronicle Round-up for Your Quarantined Exploration

Live and creative diversions – from your talented friends & neighbors

"...So many Austinites doing live shows (or even something resembling what we’d..."

March 23, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lit-urday: The Realist

This is what it's like when you're a man, a husband, a father, an artist.

"...good book – let's call it Lit-urday. How about something that's got visuals even more striking than the powerful..."

Nov. 7, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Oh, Ho, Oslo!

Norwegian spotlight

"...spotlight nation at Fantastic Fest may not have the cinematic cachet of some of its Scandinavian neighbors (hey, Sweden,..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

But Take Great Care, for Maybe She’s a Sort of Basilisk

Author Ottessa Moshfegh at BookPeople on Tuesday night

"...Ottessa Moshfegh is going to show her face in Austin’s favorite bookstore on..."

Jan. 30, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Wonder Stories

My fascination with Dick and chubbies

"...The year: 1985. A not-so-distant past. Our most pressing document of the future, 1984, was already a year..."

July 25, 2008 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Joke 'Stache

Danny Palumbo wins Funniest Person in Austin 2015, advances equal rights for facial hair

"...that after consecutive years of white guys with beards winning this contest that, you know, a white guy with..."

May 22, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: Berlin

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

"...With his long-running comics series Berlin recently collected in hardcover, Jason Lutes..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Jesse Sublett

H. R. Giger, the Dark Star

Full Q&A with documentarian Belinda Sallin

"...In The Third Man, Harry Lyme infamously said the only..."

May 23, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Exhibitionism

The Austin Cartoon Scene: Museum Worthy

"...Richard Bartholomew Sadly, there are three things I remember from my childhood: 1) Saturday morning cartoons;..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Arts Review

The Q&A Hole: Superhero Movie Redux

I knew that ol' Lazarus pit would come in handy one of these days …

"...and with much consideration by more people than usual in this ongoing Q&A Hole series. The response was, yeah,..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...there are only 15 weekends - the weekends that define the summer movie season. To you and me that..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Winner by Karl Stevens

Here's the latest from that Boston badass of sequential art and reverie

"...a large rock to bash out the rear valence window on the driver’s side of my Toyota Echo...."

July 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Sloth; I Love Led Zeppelin; Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution; TV's Grooviest Variety Shows of the '60s and '70s

"...Vertigo/DC Comics, 128 pp., $19.99I Love Led Zeppelin..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Books Review by Cindy Widner

Curses

With a simple drawing style reminiscent of TinTin's Hergé, Kevin Huizenga uses the comics medium to brilliant effect

"...by Kevin Huizenga..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Like to Watch

Penny Dreadful and the Showtime curse

"...Showtime curse is a well-known conventional wisdom of the Internet hype cycle in which every buzzy Showtime show is..."

April 29, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Moontower Comedy 2019: Joel Kim Booster

The L.A. comic on the politics (and bravery) of being hot

"...turns out there’s a lifehack when it comes to figuring out whether comedian Joel Kim Booster is your cup..."

April 24, 2019 Arts Post by Rosalind Faires

Your Library Wants These Bad

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

"...Whateverby Karl Stevens Alternative Comics, 128pp., $9.95 (paper)..."

May 2, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pulp Hope and Crutches for a Crippled Crab

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

"...suggest, to spend those days wisely – like, by taking a good long drink from this dark and colorful..."

Aug. 20, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Pertaining to Painting"

Paola Morsiani, curator of the Austin Museum Of Art's exhibition "Pertaining to Painting," fit in the show's four rooms so many -isms and nationalities that he could have called this exhibition "Now That's What I Call Painting, 2002!"

"..."Pertaining to Painting": Chocolate BoxAustin Museum Of Art -- Downtown,..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...From moon explorers to tech investors, musicians to Muppets, and from the joint chiefs of..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Poetry of Pain

The Fires

"...by René Steinke William Morrow & Co., $23 hard..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Books Review

Geisha and Other Books of 1997

Dusting off the Bookshelf

"...shamelessly simple satisfactions of commercial fiction without the lackluster writing and careless editing that make so many popular novels..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Books Feature