By: Adam McGovern

He showed most comic auteurs how it’s done.

By: Adam McGovern

He is the poet of what you think you might have heard.

By: Deb Chachra

A cartoonist to watch out for.

By: Gary Panter

Everyone sprouts big square teeth when they’re angry!

By: Chris Lanier

His line carries the express­ive shab­biness of scratch and squiggle.

By: Greg Rowland

A single glimpse of his commix will send you insane.

By: Peggy Nelson

Joe Alterio signposts the Game of Life.

By: Joe Alterio

His twisted, manic art paved the way for today’s highbrow comics scene.

By: Joshua Glenn

A child’s garden of verses overrun by drunken mermaids!

By: HILOBROW

“Tarts and squidbeasts frolicking on a massive scale.”

By: Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern on Dwayne McDuffie.

By: Adam McGovern

Adam McGovern on R. Sikoryak’s MASTERPIECE COMICS.

By: Joe Alterio

The skewed, cynical vision of an anti-Disney.

By: David Smay

There’s no point being dainty about it; Dirty Plotte means dirty cunt. Which evokes the blunt pleasure of JULIE DOUCET’s (born 1965) most famous work, but undersells its artistry and gleeful humor. Her cartoon “If […]

By: Douglas Wolk

CHESTER GOULD (1900-85) missed his calling as a professional designer of deathtraps. In the middle of one 1943 Dick Tracy sequence Gould wrote and drew, the villainous Mrs. Pruneface chains the valiant detective to the […]