Irony, sarcasm, or tactful and disciplined minimalism? Those are the cinematic realms through which this director just cannot, ever, pass.
This is a satisfying survey of the artists who’re still actively turning the graphic novel into a new kind of literature.
As goofy golf movies go, Caddyshack II isn’t even on par with Happy Gilmore.
Today Is the Last Day is bohemian and brutal and frequently reads like a traveler’s nightmare.
Is there some sort of a deep political hypothesis nibbling on a carrot and overseeing the action in this film?
Comics and infographics—two of the trendier, if not trendiest, ways to make visual art these days, a means to take either stories or data and turn them into something pretty.
You couldn’t help but wonder if this year’s Ebertfest was going to be the last.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Ebert was in our house on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
Monstrosity, terror, and horror all correspond in some way to chaos in its old-fashioned sense and with chaos in its scientific sense.
In a lot of ways, See Now Then tries to be like a Virginia Woolf novel, particularly To the Lighthouse.
Reading the book sort of feels like looking through a photo album, often to the point of monotony.
So you’re sitting at a café reading a new, smutty, and not particularly enlightening short-story collection by Junot Díaz.
This is my alphabetically arranged list of what I think are world-historically worthwhile films produced after 1986, the year of my birth.
The catch of the book is that something science-fictionally surreal or fantastic is always going on within the worlds of these dithering, sentimental protagonists.
A question for the history of the graphic novel: Will anyone ever write a cartoon equivalent of Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or For Whom the Bell Tolls?
Two new comics reinterpret ancient myths using a storytelling style that’s cute and simple and not all that interesting.
If the purpose of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere was to explain all these “new global revolutions,” it’s somewhat of a let down.
Comic Retros: Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture and Tony Millionaire’s 500 Portraits
In time for Christmas, Fantagraphics Books has released two new thick and fancy illustrator retrospectives.
These days, any comic by Daniel Clowes or Seth unmistakably belongs to each man—in the style of their lines, the speech of their characters, and the mood of their fictional worlds.
After finishing Storycraft, I know I won’t be applying for an MFA in creative writing anytime soon, but I may in the future add a few more writing guidebooks to my reading shelf.