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The horror

‘The Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later’
In April 1915, Turks of the Ottoman Empire began killing the Armenians in their midst.
By GREG COOK | April 22, 2010

At Whitney Art Works, "The Funnies" directly engage viewers with 150 pieces by 25 artists.
"The Funnies" at Whitney Art Works is a sprawling show of upwards of 150 pieces by 25 artists, all of whom have been brought together by local artist — Jeff Badger.
By KEN GREENLEAF | February 26, 2009

Robert Crumb at MassArt

In Crumb's world, everything appears tantalizingly available, all options are on the table, all bets are off.
R. Crumb's Underground at MassArt
By GREG COOK | February 06, 2009

Interview: Art Spiegelman

Drawing conclusions
"When you don't understand a painting, you assume you're stupid. When you don't understand a cartoon, you assume the cartoonist is stupid."
By MIKE MILIARD | November 13, 2008

Excerpts: Art Spiegelman's Breakdowns

Comic excerpts from Art Spiegelman's Breakdowns .
Comic excerpts from Art Spiegelman's Breakdowns .
By ART SPIEGELMAN | November 12, 2008

Girl power at Halitosis Hall

Paiva Weed to reach lofty height in old boys' club
Phillipe + Jorge have always been strong supporters of state Senator Teresa Paiva Weed, the presumptive (God, do we hate that word) new Senate president.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 12, 2008

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Winners and sinners

Barth, Bolaño, Roth, Morrison, and more
Ah, fall, when Nobel Prize winners are announced — and, now, when past winners turn up with more good reading.
By BARBARA HOFFERT | September 11, 2008

Let’s embrace satire, not boycott it

Get a grip
When the New Yorker last week ran a cover illustration spoofing the right-wing critique of Barack Obama, it was another instance in which the storied magazine put a provocative point on its front page.
By IAN DONNIS | July 23, 2008

Tragic comic

Howard Zinn’s American portrait
Growing up in the 1930s, Howard Zinn pored over the pixilated pages of comic books.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 16, 2008

Pretty cheesy

Any way you prepare it
Any way you prepare it
By MATT JONES | February 27, 2008

Sex and (comic) sensibilities

Dirty pictures
Josie and the Pussycats were sexy for cartoons, but they were a fairly chaste trio — too shy to appear in full-frontal shower scenes.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 30, 2008

To Hell in a handbasket

The Wild Party; Confessions of a Mormon Boy; Buried Child
The epic poem The Wild Party is most famous for inspiring two musicals that appeared in the same millennial year.
By CAROLYN CLAY | May 01, 2007

Rockets men

Brown showcases the comix world of Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez
In 1982, two brothers from Oxnard, California, 60 miles northwest of LA, self-published the first issue of a comic they called Love and Rockets .
By GREG COOK | February 07, 2007

Dark thoughts

Mark Newgarden’s comics of the absurd
Most of We All Die Alone , which collects Mark Newgarden’s comic art from 1983 to 1994, is concerned with a simple truth: despair and humor come from the same place.
By MATTHEW SHAER | April 24, 2006