Julia Jacquette's Playground of My Mind is a graphic memoir of growing up with the modernist playgrounds of Manhattan, and how their concrete geometries influenced her later art. Along with the ...

As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in ...

A few weeks back now, I was perusing the pages of the print edition of this very paper, when I happened upon a surprising sight. Among the crossword puzzles and the regular newspaper comic reprints ...

LGBTQ graphic (as in illustrated) memoirs are nothing new. But it took Alison Bechdel's award-winning 2006 book "Fun Home" to bring the genre to mainstream audiences, thereby generating mass public ...

Ai Weiwei says he says he spends a lot of time watching animals. AI WEIWEI: I think when you live with animals, you learn a lot. And they are often more sensible or helpful, are highly intelligent in ...

At the center of Kristen Radtke’s graphic memoir Imagine Wanting Only This is the death of her uncle, with whom she is very close. The book begins when she’s a child, young enough to still be amazed ...

Like a cosmological comic, the artist’s new ‘graphic memoir’ entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination. By Jonathan Landreth As the Year of the Dragon dawns, the Chinese artist Ai ...

All the signs alluded to a secret Alison Bechdel's father hid. But to this day the author of the long-running comic strip "Dykes To Watch Out For" will never know her dad's actual sexual orientation. ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: Now, when art meets activism. Exiled Chinese dissident and renowned artist Ai Weiwei is known for challenging authoritarian politics through his work, and was even detained ...

Acclaimed graphic novelist Craig Thompson is back with a new work, Ginseng Roots: A Memoir, another autobiographical work that's richer, deeper, and more complex than his previous works. Ginseng Roots ...

When it comes to untethering the imagination and letting it soar into the unknown, comic books and graphic novels are hard to beat. The arrangement of square panels on a white page can unlock potent ...