Jake Austen

Here are three new comic books to check out. B+F by Gregory Benton, AdHouse, 64 pages, $24.95 Gregory Benton's lush, wordless comic novel "B+F" might be one of the best...

Here are three new books to check out that explore the role of women in comics. Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists, 1896-2013 By Trina Robbins, Fantagraphics, 180 pages,...

Here are three new books to check out that explore the role of women in comics. This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with...

Comics scholars have long championed George Carlson's absurdist fairy tales in his mid-1940s Jingle Jangle Comics. It's easy to see why: Carlson's Pie-Face Prince of Pretzelburg's stories burst with bizarre...

I'm a shameless sucker for pastel pink flamingos. I've often lingered at bookstore counters flipping through collections of 1950s picture postcards, delighted by Technicolor images of vacation wonderlands, but I...

When "Beautiful Darkness" opens, we are in a seemingly enchanted forest populated by fairies, dolls, princes, ballerinas, woodland creatures and sprites who could all have come straight out of a...

Terry and the Pirates by George Wunder, Volume 1: 1946-1948, Hermes, 256 pages, $60 In 1946, George Wunder won the most coveted job in comics, yet it's hard not to...

Terry and the Pirates by George Wunder, Volume 1: 1946-1948, Hermes, 256 pages, $60 In 1946, George Wunder won the most coveted job in comics, yet it's hard not to...

Oba William King plays a djembe drum, a kufi covers his bald head, and West African Anansi folk tales are in his repertoire. And although King's work is inspired by...