Steve Orlando: Undertow: A look at the Atlantean comic book series brimming with modern themes

Steve Orlando: Undertow


“Comics are a beautiful medium. The combination of visual art and text engages both sides of your brain, causing you to retain more than from a similar story in other mediums,” shares writer ,…

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Satan Lucky: China’s subversive illustrator on walking the censorship line, free speech and publishing

Satan Lucky


Beijing-based comic designer and illustrator Satan Lucky—a light-hearted name choice he made as a teenager—is not a dark character at all. On the contrary, he’s a smiling, cheerful young man with a very independent spirit and…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Penn Station redesign, Scott Campbell’s Mexican prison tattoo guns, Google Nutrition and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Google Blimp Wi-Fi Gone are the days of blimps being used solely for advertising at the Superbowl. Google is currently developing technology that will provide Wi-Fi to over one billion people in Africa and Southeast…

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The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Chip Kidd discusses designing the first English-language collection from “the master of gay erotic manga”

The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame


In book design, provocation is the name of the game. Intrigue the reader enough to pick up the work and open it—this is a process that Chip Kidd has turned into an art. From David Sedaris’ “); return…

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