“Multiple Mouth McCardy,” a detail from Wally Wood’s cover for Plop! #13, June, 1975, DC Comics.
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Sunday Comix
Drawings by Raymond Pettibon. From Weirdo #13, Summer, 1985, Last Gasp.
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A panel from “Hide & Watch Me” by Joe Kimball. Published in Mome #8, Summer 2007, Fantagraphics Books.
Conversations with Don DeLillo and Other Conversations by Drew Lerman (Book acquired, 3 June 2026)
I’m a big fan of Drew Lerman’s work, and I’m always excited when he puts together a new collection. His latest is Conversations with Don DeLillo and Other Conversations, collecting his recent strips. I would describe these strips as functioning in the mode of pseudoautiobiographical postmodern literary interrogation, only that makes them sound pretentious, which they aren’t. They are very funny and very niche, and I often feel like I am Lerman’s ideal reader. This is my niche.
Each one-page strip features (a version of) Lerman encountering (and often trailing) a writer (DeLillo, obv., but also Joy Williams, Jonathan Franzen, Gordon Lish, William T. Vollmann…); the conversations are often very one-sided and allow Lerman to interrogate his subject on the kind of minutiae that often overtakes our ability to see the forest for the trees, so to speak, when it comes to art. In one of my favorite bits, for example, Lerman critiques the implementation of (“middle school book report-ass”) Courier New Unjustified as the font for DeLillo’s novel The Silence. I could go on but I should save it for a proper review.
Conversations with Don DeLillo also features a great negative blurb by a certain grouchy “Myron Circle”:
And maybe this is corny of me, but I love that Lerman used Chris Ware stamps to mail me Conversations with Don DeLillo. (Chris Ware shows up in Conversations, btw — he tries to give Lerman a bunch of his books and tell Lerman how much he loves Snake Creek
More thoughts to come.
Sunday Comix
A page by Charles Burns from BLAB! no. 2, Summer 1987, Monte Comix Productions.
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From “Catholic School” by Penny Moran. Published in Wimmen’s Comix #15, 1989, Rip Off Press. Reprinted in The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, Vol. 2, Fantagraphic Books.
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From “Modern America” by Robert Crumb. Published in Arcade #2, Summer 1975, The Print Mint.
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From “Dr. Deluxe” by J. Gaccione (signed as Chicken Delight), published in Yellow Dog #17, March, 1970, The Print Mint.
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From “The Revenant” by Scott Hampton. Published in Tales of Terror #8, Sept. 1986, Eclipse Comics.
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From “I Was a Captive of the Insect Fiends!” by Tim “Grisly” Boxell. Published in Fantagor #4, 1972, Last Gasp.
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“Ada” by Willie Mendes. The piece is the back cover of Insect Fear #2, March 1970, The Print Mint.
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A panel from Sergio Aragonés’ one-shot Dia de Los Muertos, 1998, Dark Horse Comics.
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“Vampire!” by Johnny Craig. From The Haunt of Fear #16, July 1950, EC Comics.
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A page from Ben Passmore’s graphic novel Black Arms to Hold You Up, Pantheon, 2025. Assata Shakur passed away on 25 Sept. 2025. She was free.
Ben Passmore’s Black Arms to Hold You Up (Book acquired, 23 Sept. 2025)
I was psyched to get an early copy of Ben Passmore’s Black Arms to Hold You Up this week. I love the dramatic vibrancy of Passmore’s cartooning, and his economic use of black, white, gray, and red throughout the book. I should have a review out around its release on 7 Oct. 2025.
Here is publisher Pantheon’s blurb:
It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re not out in the streets with everyone else?” Ronnie asks his ambivalent son, Ben, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X, Robert F. Williams, Assata and Sanyika Shakur, among others. “Black liberation is your fight, too.”
So begins Black Arms to Hold You Up, a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history by political cartoonist Ben Passmore. From Robert Charles’s shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Ben—and meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic.
What, after so many decades lost to state violence, is there left to fight for? Deeply researched, vibrantly drawn, and bracingly introspective, Black Arms to Hold You Up dares to find the answer.
Sunday Comix
Art from “Tomb of the Space Gods” by Alexis Ziritt; from Space Riders #3, June 2015 by Alexis Ziritt (artist), Fabian Rangel, Jr. (writer), and Ryan Ferrier (letterer)Rory Hayes. Published by Black Mask Studios.
Sunday Comix
From “The Creature in the Tunnels” by Rory Hayes. Published in Bogeyman Comics #1, 1969, Twelve A.M. Publications.
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