From “What Is Government?” by Clifford Peter Harper, a visual adaptation of text by Pierre Joseph Proudhon. Published in Anarchy Comics #3, July 1981, Last Gasp Comics.
Tag: Comix
Sunday Comix
From “Real of Karma Comix” by Barbara “Willy” Mendes, published in All Girl Thrills, March, 1971, The Print Mint.
Sunday Comix
“Christmas” by Geof Darrow; colors by Dave Stewart. From the one-shot anthology Hellboy Christmas Special, 1997, Dark Horse Comics.
Sunday Comix
From “The Revenant” by Scott Hampton. Published in Tales of Terror #8, Sept. 1986, Eclipse Comics.
Sunday Comix
From “Armed Love” by Jay Kinney and Ned Sonntag. Published in Young Lust #2, 1971, The Print Mint.
Sunday Comix
From “I Was a Captive of the Insect Fiends!” by Tim “Grisly” Boxell. Published in Fantagor #4, 1972, Last Gasp.
Sunday Comix
The cover for Middle Class Fantasies #1 by Jerry Lane, 1973, Cartoonists Co-op Press.
Sunday Comix
“Ada” by Willie Mendes. The piece is the back cover of Insect Fear #2, March 1970, The Print Mint.
Sunday Comix
A panel from Sergio Aragonés’ one-shot Dia de Los Muertos, 1998, Dark Horse Comics.
Sunday Comix
“Rollerettes Against Change!” by Melinda Gebbie. The piece is the back cover of Wimmin’s Comix #8, March 1983, Last Gasp. Reprinted in The Complete Wimmin’s Comix, 2016, Fantagraphics.
Sunday Comix
“Children of the Future?” a one-pager by Jim Osborne. From Slow Death Funnies #1, April, 1970, Last Gasp.
Sunday Comix
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
A one-pager by Robert Crumb from Weirdo #2, Summer 1981, Last Gasp.
Sunday Comix
A one-panel gag by Jay Lynch (as “Phil Space”) from Gothic Blimp Works #3, 1969, the East Village Other.
Sunday Comix
Art/text attributed to “Marks.” Back cover of Mother’s Oats Comix #2, August, 1971, Rip Off Press.
Sunday Comix
From “The Lobster” by Jack Cole, Plastic Man #4, July 1946, Quality Comics.
