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The opening splash page to the first issue of Starman. All art by Tony Harris and Wade von Grawbadger unless otherwise specified.

"I understand the reason why/You're sentimental, 'cause so am I” — style="fon...

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J.D. King in Spain. Photo courtesy Sally Eckhoff.

J.D. King, a prolific cartoonist whose stylized, jazz-infused illustrations appeared in many magazines in the 1990s, died at his home in Remsen, New York in early November, 2025. He was 74 years old. There is no exact cause of death but also no cau...

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A self-portrait of the author

Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit and Cannon both tell complicated stories about family and identity. Stone Fruit is the story of a woman dealing with the slow disintegration of her relationship...

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Julia Gfrörer is perfectly capable of flawless rhetoric, as proven in the second of two Frasier parodies within World Within the World. She shows us a series of panels of environment furniture behind a conversation between two unseen characters about Maris, also unseen; the perfect hypocrisy of their judgemental framing is crystalline, sending hard glints of light into the ey...

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Nocturnos

In Laura Pérez’s first solo book, Ocultos, a character says “It seems our world lacks words to grapple with all the things that seem inexplicable.” This statement could very well be the raison d'être behind Pérez’s ...

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