Charles Burns
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Comic Detours And Digressions
Issue 63, Spring 2007
It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should…
Comics for damned intellectuals
Issue 8, Autumn 1992
It is ten years since Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman impetuously founded Raw Books and Graphics. Since then, Raw, the couple’s alternative comic strip magazine, has provided an outlet for talented unknowns, given new significance to the term ‘graphic novel’, almost single-handedly reinvented one of America’s most popular indigenous artforms – all on a shoestring budget.
The designer as author
Issue 20, Spring 1996
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?
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No wasted space
30 March 2010
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Typography
McSweeney’s celebrates its vision of independent publishing
Art of McSweeney’s celebrates the journal’s design and visual content.