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Illustration of a young brown woman in a suit, telling jokes from onstage at a comedy club. The young, diverse audience laughs. Several male comics, older and white, stand outside the spotlight looking moody and resentful.

Arts & Culture / June 2020

The Comedy Culture War

May 25, 2020June 18, 2020 - by Erika Thorkelson

A new wave of comics is rejecting stand-up’s tired tropes

A screen shot from the Batwoman TV show in which Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) and Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy) hold hands and look into one another's eyes.

Television

The Undeniable Queerness of Superhero Stories

January 17, 2020January 20, 2020 - by Anna Peppard

The genre is built on themes of transformation, disguise, and duality—a reality that LGBTQ folks live every day

Comics

How to Make It As an Indie Cartoonist

December 9, 2019December 10, 2019 - by Jeet Heer

The new generation of Canadian cartoonists is diverse, innovative, and unapologetically weird

Detail from Cerebus, Volume One. Copyright Dave Sims

Books

Canada’s Cantankerous Aardvark

December 25, 2017December 2, 2019 - by Jason Guriel

Cerebus, which turns forty this month, is one of the funniest, most innovative, and most offensive comics ever made

Books / July/August 2017

This Scribbly Stuff

June 14, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Sean Rogers

Jilian Tamaki’s art is packed with meaning, not morals

Arts & Culture

Capes and Tights

May 18, 2016December 9, 2019 - by Sean Rogers

Mourning Darwyn Cooke, superhero artist of the comic world

Comics

Hot Talk

November 12, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Rolli

Cartoon by Rolli

Comics

Above and Beyond

October 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Rolli

Comics

Invisibilities

October 13, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Teva Harrison

Thirty-second in a series of comics about living with metastatic cancer

Illustration of a comic by Teva Harrison

Comics

Can’t Be Trusted

October 5, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Teva Harrison

Thirty-first in a series of comics about living with metastatic cancer