
Cartoon Rules
Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks is a portrait of an artist obsessed with the formal mechanics of the comic strip.
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy
by Bill Griffith
March 7, 2024 issue
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Dan Nadel is the Curator-at-Large at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which will open in 2025. His books include It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980 and Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976. His biography of Robert Crumb will be published next year. (March 2024)
Cartoon Rules
Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks is a portrait of an artist obsessed with the formal mechanics of the comic strip.
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, the Man Who Created Nancy
by Bill Griffith
March 7, 2024 issue
Clean Lines, Messy Lives
“The Hernandez brothers’ recurring characters have aged and sprawled out into baroque, visionary stories that alternate between near-anthropologic detail, fantastical pulp, and sexual fetishes.”
Is This How You See Me?
by Jaime Hernandez
Tonta
by Jaime Hernandez
July 23, 2020 issue
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