10 Comics for You to Love on Valentine’s Day
Today’s romance comics look nothing like they did in their “golden age,” and thank heavens for that.
3 Best 2018 Comics and Graphic Novels for Teens
The good news is that there’s an enormous wealth of options for young comics lovers.
3 Best Graphic Novels for Kids
From the earliest newspaper strips, comics have always been for kids everywhere.
3 Best Biographical Comics of 2018
If your strongest attraction to comics is for the most visually exceptional ones, then there’s a chance that you just might be me.
Horrors! The Life and Death of Matt Groening’s Best Simpsons Comic Book
Don’t have a cow, man.
Horror Comics: Image Comics is on Top
Horror comics are back.
9/11 and the Fall of Mad Men
Mad Men season five… about time!
4:02 PST. The L.A. Art Scene’s Original Culture Jammers, Part 2
This is the second half of my interview with Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon, curators of Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961 – 1976.
4:01 PST. The L.A. Art Scene’s Original Culture Jammers, Part 1
Several decades before AdBusters, there was Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken.
3:02 PST. Pacific Standard Gift Book Time, Part 2
For graphic design enthusiasts, the best overview of Southern California’s current Pacific Standard Time program was published five years ago.
3:01 PST. Pacific Standard Gift Book Time, Part 1
Forget the Rose Parade; the real reason to be in L.A. right now is Pacific Standard Time… the arts program, not just the zone.
2:01 PST. Pre-Occupy Protest Poster Art
The posters beckon us to unite against economic inequality, exploitation, and oppression.
1:01 PST. Ed Ruscha’s Passenger Seat Talk
Just shut up, New York and Europe. You’re really not all that, culture-wise.
Aaron Draplin on Portland, Palin, Pizza, and…Design
The theme of last month’s San Diego AIGA Y Conference was “Spark.” But Aaron Draplin, the first speaker, had grander ambitions.