Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Bad Mask, a comic book box set by Jon Chad (Science Comics, BOOM! Box Mixtape) that shows off the cartoonist’s versatility with an expansive multimedia superhero story.
“Cartoonist Chris Ware has helped push the comic book medium to new heights of mainstream popularity, and his passion for the art form is at the core of Monograph, a huge art book tracing Ware’s personal and creative development from his early years growing up in Omaha through his experimental early adulthood to his…
Cartoonist Chris Ware has helped push the comic-book medium to new heights of mainstream popularity, and his passion for the art form is at the core of Monograph (Rizzoli), a huge art book tracing Ware’s personal and creative development from his early years growing up in Omaha through his experimental early adulthood…
Arriving with advance praise from comics luminaries like Ivan Brunetti and Chris Ware, Nick Drnaso’s debut graphic novel Beverly hits stores this week. It’s easy to see why these big names have given their support to the up-and-coming cartoonist: Like Brunetti and Ware, Drnaso is fixated on using the comic-book medium…
