Comics? Sequential Art? Literature for Your Visual Cortex?

A year's worth of goodness for the smarter parts of your brain

"...This year, The New Yorker's art editor Françoise Mouly is the final decider, and she..."

Oct. 2, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Comic Creator Spotlight on Zach Chapman: "When I Get That Art Back, It's Instant Gratification"

For Free Comic Book Day we chat with Austin's sequential standouts

"...Shirley Jackson – a cybernetic ghost tearing a human apart.”..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Secret Origins: Austin’s Comic Creators

For Free Comic Book Day, we head into the studios and writing rooms of our local sequential art talents

"...Graphic novels. Sequential art. The funny pages. It doesn’t matter what you..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

This glad-hearted and furiously funny piece of pop entertainment stars Michael Cera and is told in the vernacular of video games.

"...Mark Webber, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Mae Whitman and Brandon Routh...."

Aug. 13, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hey, Grownups! More Graphic Novels!

Three new releases from those geeky savants at Fantagraphics

"...yourself a little something decent in the way of sequential art in a good-looking package? Because you deserve it,..."

Dec. 13, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Staple! Storms Austin

Flicking through the pages of indie media

"...Expo has become a, well, staple of the Austin sequential art scene. Last Saturday's event, with big-name graphic artist..."

March 10, 2010 Books Post by Richard Whittaker

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...associates all over Austin do. That's the crux of arts reporting, after all: Focus on their focus, on the..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nailing the Market

The next time you go out to eat, keep an eye out for the work of Austin artist Elizabeth Guenthner. She's showing in almost every cafe where it's possible to display art, and her works' precise, distinctly disturbing beauty is simply transcendent.

"...Austin native Elizabeth Guenthner is exhibiting her artwork, throughout the year, in almost every local cafe where..."

July 14, 2000 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?

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

"...amazing comic books and graphic novels and compilations of sequential art – or whatever label you wanna tag the..."

May 10, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Comics (Artist) Panel

Five Austinites on the state of the sequential art, from comics to comix to manga and beyond

"...Austin has a pedigree of comic-book artists to make any bullpen on any coast nervous. And..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Feature by Joey Seiler

Book This Gift, You Graphic Self-Chronicler

Because your life’s narrative structure deserves some good paneling

"...everybody’s going to conjure up a powerful classic like Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Not everybody’s going to render an intense..."

Dec. 6, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Are You Headed Straight For Failure, Friend?

Ah, it looks like Karl Stevens got there first.

"...if it involves getting drunk and working as an art-museum security guard and crashing on dirty couches and suffering..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Scott McCloud in Austin with The Sculptor this Weekend

The affable theorist of Understanding Comics waxes all fictional.

"...Scott McCloud of Understanding Comics fame has a new..."

Feb. 4, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Great Feckin' Depression of Seamus O'Doherty

Th' dark-eyed Dubliner & his ginger mog: Captured by Austin's Izzi Ross

"...itself, the single-page gags expanding to multipage vignettes, the artist’s drawing style – already impressive in that engaging indie..."

June 12, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Two From Alternative Comics

'The Cute Manifesto' and 'A Strange Day'

"...intrepid moonlighting lawyer, continues to enrich the landscape of sequential art with its frequent, well-produced editions. Among the latest..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Person

Funny Papers, April 24

"...shop and attempt to churn out 24 pages of sequential art in as many hours, sans sleep – you..."

May 14, 2004 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Tillie Walden: Talking Comics

"If it was torture, I’d’ve given up by now.”

"...Tillie Walden, that Ignatz-winning author of the new graphic..."

Nov. 1, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Crossing the Lines

Women Comic Strippers

"...beard, flecked with feathers and vomit, with small bird parts dripping from the hairy nest. Penny Moran Van Horn's..."

May 12, 1995 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

A Redhead, Pink Pony, and Kaleidoscope in This Weekend’s Events

Arts and culture to keep you entertained

"...doggy faces about how 30 CTX craft breweries are participating, like Celis Brewery and Independence Brewing. Pet their ears..."

May 2, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Bloody Brides, Creepy Cats, and More Arts Events for the Week

Valentine's (and anti-Valentine) fun, soundtracking a rock, etc.

"...– at this free workshop, where the power of sequential art is put into your narrative hands.  – Wayne..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Excellent Things to Do in Austin this Weekend

Aside from enjoying this, we mean, ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS weather

"...Seriously, you could just stand around outside and partake of the mild temperatures and the cool breezes slicing..."

Feb. 6, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Graphic Gift Books For Your Creative Favorites

Or even for your own holiday-besieged self, right? Potentially?

"...That book becomes a thing worth keeping, a cultural artifact that pretty much defines the parameters of “thoughtful gift.”..."

Dec. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nadia Waheed: "Notes From a Windowless Room" at Raw Paw

Explorations of identity by an artist of color, of colors, of many colors

"...book called Notes From a Windowless Room accompanying the artist's large paintings, now on display at Raw Paw Gallery..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Saturday Is Bright and Not Filled With Terrors

And here's a plethora of recommendations for you

"...plethora – ah, that word again – of paper-based sequential-art goodness at any of the several comic book shops..."

May 4, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Year in Books

Thirty-one titles that got us talking this year

"...Might as well continue the confessional: I started, but never finished, at least three of the year's..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

STAPLE! Comes Back Home to St. Ed’s

The revived indie media expo settles into its second year

"...will also host this year's gathering of the graphic arts from April 12-13...."

April 10, 2025 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Animation Nations

Napping Princess leads this week's home releases

"...minutes. Like Kokone's dream, it makes sense in your heart, if not quite in your head...."

Jan. 29, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Staple! The Independent Media Expo Returns

Year 12 brings diverse delights and DIY creativity all weekend long

"...this local expo of comics-focused indie media and geekish party action that’s, as ever, wrangled by the sideburned provocateur..."

Feb. 24, 2016 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.

"...even more striking than the powerful textual and subtextual parts of its compelling whole?..."

Nov. 7, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Dirty Diamonds: An All-Girl Comic Anthology

Upcoming release explores the complex theme of “beauty”

"...Because the artists included in this latest issue of the series edited..."

June 24, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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