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

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

This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...Over six decades, internationally acclaimed artist Hunt Slonem has created his own universe, with pieces..."

May 3, 2024 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

Dog Toys and Puppy Sports Lead Our Recommended Community Events

Bucking broncos, drag vampires, and more highlights

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

Feb. 9, 2024 Arts Feature by Kat McNevins

We Have an Issue: This Is Fine?

In this week's issue, fun ways to grapple with the ongoing heat... and more sobering thoughts on the state we're in

"...Locarno Welcomes "Lousy Carter": Austin director Bob Byington will debut his latest at..."

July 21, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Austin Comic Creators Snag Ringo Award Nominations

Ghoul Agency, Halloween Man praised by peers

"...Big news in the world of sequential art: two Austin-made books have been nominated for the..."

July 13, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Comic Creator Spotlight on Kristin Hogan: “I Absolutely Love the STAPLE! Community”

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

"...cog in a machine – you were an individual artist. And, also, it was a lady drawing it! Which..."

May 5, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Gifts of Literary Delight for You or Anyone Lucky Enough to Be Your Friends or Family

Sentence yourself to a long stretch of reading pleasure

"...Gonna start off with three novels from Austin-based authors – one,..."

Nov. 28, 2022 Books 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

MASS Gallery Sends Exquisite Corpses Through the Mail

The Austin artspace gets downright surreal with the USPS for its current exhibition

"...into thirds or fourths or some such, and each artist works on a single segment of that paper without..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Five Recent Graphic Novels You Shouldn’t Miss Out On

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

"...settled in and distracted us from our championing of sequential art, and these are just five of what’s worth..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"The New Flesh" at ICOSA Gallery

It’s a body of work, but the anatomy isn’t necessarily of this Earth

"..."The New Flesh" is an exhibition of new art by artists Matt Rebholz and Terra Gools­by, presented at..."

Jan. 3, 2020 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Six Local Books for Foodies for the Holidays

Texas food for the eyes and stomach

"...Jentzen, this book'll have you deep in the tastiest part of Texas in no time flat. Franklin Steakby Aaron..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Book Review: The River at Night

In Kevin Huizenga's graphic novel, one man's speeding mind breaks time

"...transports him (and the fortunate reader) through this new sequential-art meditation on time and, let’s also say, life and..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Book Review: The Hard Tomorrow

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

"...Violence group. Trying to make a living serving as part-time caretaker to a dying old woman. Trying to contain..."

Oct. 24, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Meeghan Morongova: Boundless Abandon" at Butridge Gallery

The photographer's first solo show is a clever and colorful fabrication of portraits

"...see them hanging on the wall of the Dougherty Arts Center's Butridge Gallery...."

Aug. 16, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Comic Book Cookbook Shows You How to Make Perfect Ramen

A step-by-step trip into the noodlicious and brothy world of ramen

"...full-color paperback from Ten Speed Press will improve several parts of your life. That's because Let's Make Ramen! is..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Food Feature 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

A Local Pick for Free Comic Book Day

Creators of Punchline offer a super-powered narrative

"...The creators are writer Bill Williams and artist Matthew Weldon. The comic is a super-powered sort of..."

May 1, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc: A Real-Life Swipe Right

There is a difference between being likable and having a neurotic need to be liked

"...I am not trying to brag, I know I'm..."

April 5, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

What If the Marx Brothers Got Around to Making That Movie With Salvador Dalí?

Josh Frank brings the legendary unproduced movie to printed life

"...Then Frank set about producing Giraffes on Horseback Salad via sequential art. He got Tim Heidecker (of Tim and Eric Awesome..."

March 22, 2019 Screens Feature 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

"Post-Apocalyptic Harvest" at Atelier 1205

Artists Erika Huddleston, Tammy West, and Amy Scofield salvage beauty from a sundered world

"...In a small gallery within an architecture firm's headquarters in the urban heart of Austin, it's as if..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

Book This Gift, You Comics-Loving Citizen

Because the All-Trans Comics Anthology is a many-splendored thing

"...Not just because (as the editors point out) transgender artists aren’t some Surprising! New! Development! within the world of..."

Dec. 5, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Winner by Karl Stevens

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

"...a situation it was to be in, with this smart and funny couple I’d met just the day before..."

July 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Altamesa’s New Frontier

“The New West” christens elaborate single series

"...over the course of a monthly serial entwining songs, art, and storytelling...."

Feb. 16, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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