New Kid by Jerry Craft, Maus by Art Spiegelman, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Anne Frank’s Diary (Graphic Adaptation) adapted by Ari Folman and David Polonsky, and, of course, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe are among the most challenged or banned comic books since the […]
From Bert Archer, Montreal Gazette Editor regarding the controversial Boris cartoon: There has been a good deal of outrage over the most recent Boris cartoon published online Monday afternoon and in print Tuesday morning. It depicted an elderly lady in Montreal not paying attention while her small dog pissed in the direction of a poster […]
GoComics is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cornered, the comic panel by Mike Baldwin. The first Cornered panel on GoComics is dated September 1, 1997 which would be twenty-five years, but Andrews McMeel Syndication (then known as Universal Press Syndicate) started distributing the panel on November 16, 1997 after Mike had started it nineteen […]
(Rabbits Against Magic — AMS) (Prickly City — AMS) Politics are everywhere, and it’s good to see them on the funny pages because it just might get someone who actively avoids thinking to give it a try. That may be a pretty slim slice of the pie: I doubt the people who most need to […]
The Chronicle Chamber reports that India’s Regal Publishers are celebrating their second year anniversary by issuing a special edition of The Phantom comic book. To celebrate their two year anniversary, Regal are releasing a special #25 issue with 164 pages instead of the normal 56 page issues they have been releasing for the past year. […]