- 7/17/09 /
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Murder, Sex, and Talking Animals: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Low Moon
Anthropomorphic animals get into all sorts of trouble with murder, revenge and sexual domination.
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- 7/6/09 /
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Read Eight Pages From the ‘Masterpiece’ Graphic Novel Reviewed in This Week’s New York
An exclusive excerpt from the graphic novel of the summer, 'Asterios Polyp.'
- 6/24/09 /
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What’s Under Those Bandages? Exclusive Comics Excerpt From The Nobody
A creepy, pulpy story of small-town secrets and scientific experiments gone, natch, horribly awry.
- 6/17/09 /
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More Thrizzling Than Usual: This Week’s Comic Features 4-Playo, the Amazing Foreplay Robot
Plus: Uncle Jimmy's Bitter, Drunken Guide to the Animal Kingdom!
- 6/10/09 /
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Swamp Creatures and Jim Crow: Comics Excerpt From Bayou
A fable full of dirty magic, like an Angela Carter story transplanted to the Deep South.
- 6/3/09 /
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Exclusive Excerpt: The Muppet Show Returns, in Comic-book Form
The most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational comics excerpt we've ever run.
- 5/28/09 /
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Nautical Adventure and Extreme Drunkenness: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Far Arden
Pirates! Sea battles! Polar bears! Sword fights! Alluring damsels! Annoying undergrads! And a mysterious tropical island hidden in the farthest north!
- 5/21/09 /
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Love, Family, and the Stinky Poo Tree: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From The Color of Earth
A widow and her young daughter look for love in early-twentieth-century Korea.
- 5/13/09 /
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Making Out With the Smart Boys: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From A Mess of Everything
Boring teachers. Bullshit poseurs. Anorexic best friends. Surely you remember the joys of high school as if they were yesterday!
- 5/6/09 /
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New York’s Awesome Apocalypse: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Bob Fingerman’s From the Ashes
Five pages from a gloriously misanthropic new comics series.
- 4/29/09 /
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Brief Encounters With Beautiful People: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Second Thoughts
John is a photographer running away. Jess is a novelist without a novel.
- 4/16/09 /
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Love and Art in New York City: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Gabrielle Bell’s Cecil and Jordan
If a world-famous painter asked you to give drawing lessons to his 12-year-old son, what would YOU do?
- 4/2/09 /
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Two Acclaimed Comics Creators Team Up: Exclusive Excerpt From The Eternal Smile
So, you've gotten an e-mail from Prince Henry of Nigeria asking for a loan to help save the royal family. What if your life was so boring that you gave it to him?
- 3/25/09 /
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Love and Loss As Seen by a 5-Year-Old: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From My Mommy Is in America ...
Eight pages from the winner of the Essentials Prize at the 2008 Angoulême Comics Festival.
- 3/11/09 /
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Mascara, Tongue-Kissing, and Top Gun: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Unlovable
Even if you never wore leg warmers with high heels, you'll still recognize your teenage self in Tammy Pierce's 1988 diary.
- 3/3/09 /
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Bugs, Drugs, and Talking Wizards: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Prize-Nominated Swallow Me Whole
Nate Powell's book is the first graphic novel nominated for the L.A. 'Times' Book Prize since 'Maus'.
- 2/25/09 /
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Sad Songs, Disfigurement, and Lunch Meat: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Baloney
Follow the heartbreakingly ridiculous story of small-town butcher Baloney and his blind, one-legged, one-armed daughter.
- 2/20/09 /
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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: Oscar-Nominated Waltz With Bashir in Graphic-novel Form
This hallucinatory graphic novel was created by Ari Folman and David Polonsky simultaneously with the making of the film.
- 2/12/09 /
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Exclusive Comics Excerpt: the Heartbreaking Why I Killed Peter
An excerpt from a graphic memoir that travels well-trod territory with wit, style, and relentless honesty.
- 2/3/09 /
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Comics Exclusive: Check Out the New Scott Pilgrim Book!
See six pages from the indie-rock comics cult hit that's the basis for Michael Cera's new movie.
- 1/28/09 /
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Literature, Self-Doubt, and Bad Sex: Read a Complete Comics Story From In the Flesh
A complete (dirty!) story from the award-winning Israeli cartoonist's new collection.
- 1/21/09 /
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Comics Excerpt: The Arrival Author Shaun Tan Tells Tales From Outer Suburbia
The solemn silence of 'The Arrival' didn't prepare us for the wordy whimsy of Tan's new book.
- 12/17/08 /
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Giraffes, Human Shadows, and Severed Heads: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From David B.’s Nocturnal Conspiracies
Seven pages from the new graphic novel by the author of the acclaimed 'Epileptic.'
- 12/5/08 /
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Exclusive Preview From the Only Comic Book Worth $125, Kramers Ergot 7
Our four-page excerpt is, sadly, a little smaller than the nearly two-foot-tall originals.
- 11/25/08 /
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Blood, Guts and Vikings: Exclusive Excerpt From Brian Wood’s Comic ‘Northlanders’
As addictive as HBO's 'Rome,' if a good deal more chilly.