« Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language. » — Helena Christensen Here’s a post that has been a looong time coming. To wit: back on May 14th, 2015, I wrote: …

There’s a new book on manga history, Manga’s First Century: Creators and Fans Make Japanese Comics, 1905–1989, written by Andrea Horbinski and published by the University of California Press.…

I had a conversation the other day about “manga style.” They insisted that there was an identifiable, imitable art style from Japan that could be replicated for other audiences. I said Japan’s legacy ...

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The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

17 GOP defectors broke with their party to protect health subsidies—a sharp rebuke to Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

Illustrating the Progress of Art in Journalism 1897 It started a few days ago when Tony Rose discovered a startling item in an old Editor and Publisher. A 1925 obituary for Albert Wilbur Steele includ...

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize

Matt Groening discovered the things that helped shape his artistic sensibility when he was 12 years old: psychedelia, the Grateful Dead, Catch-22, and of course cartooning. Matt explains to Marc how t...