“I never wanted to be someone just working for attention or praise, I’m just trying to put it all in order. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s serious, but it’s always me.” In a market saturated with graphic memoirs about early adulthood and finding oneself, it’s unusual to find one that feels genuinely original. Rarer still…
ESSAY: Whatever Happened to FoxTrot?
Bill Amend’s FoxTrot was one of the great successes of late-twentieth-century newspaper comics. At the end of its run as a daily feature in 2006, the strip was running in over 1000 papers, had published over 30 book collections, and Amend was a runner-up for the National Cartoonist’s Society’s title of Cartoonist of the Year1….
ESSAY: Subnormality at 15: A Retrospective
The first thing you need to know about Winston Rowntree’s webcomic Subnormality is that there’s a lot of it. Rowntree began posting in 2007, and as of this writing, there are 231 installments. And many of those 231 installments are gigantic infinite-canvas extravaganzas that can take the better part of an hour to read. It’s…