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NATO Schamto! Comics: Philosophy and Practice Conference is Big News

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Chris Ware, Mad Magazine, Comics, Art Spiegelman, Graphic Novel, Ivan Brunetti, University of Chicago, Cartoon, R Crumb, Lynda Barry, Hillary Chute, The New Yorker Cartoons, Comic Conference, Chicago Around Town, Comic Conference Chicago, Video, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

NATO?! Whatever. The big news of the weekend was the three-day conference at the University of Chicago's new Logan Arts Center, "Comics: Philosophy and Practice," where some of the greatest comics artists and graphic novelists took the stage.

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Whaam! Splat! Bang! Lichtenstein Hits Chicago's Art Institute

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Woman's Board, Chris Ware, EXPO CHICAGO, Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Garvey, Tony Fitzpatrick, Pop, Tony Karman, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago Arts, Chicago Around Town, Chicago News
Elysabeth Alfano

The exhibition is truly the first of its kind or scale. Lichtenstein blurred the lines between low art and high art and paved the way for current day street artists and graphic novelists to further explore their craft in the world of fine art.

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Alternative New Yorker Covers For Mother's Day

Posted 05.13.2012

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TIME's most recent cover -- if you haven't seen it, where have you been? -- probably takes the cake as far as provocative parenting imagery is concern...

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Authors Auction Character Names For Charity

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Ware, Fictional Character Names, Joshua Ferris, Names in Fiction, Francine Prose, Fictional Characters, Character Name Auction, Dave Eggers, Character Names, First Amendement Project, Books News

Bestselling mystery writer Thomas Perry is just one of the dozens of authors who will name characters in their books after you -- if you are the highe...

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PHOTOS: Chris Ware's REJECTED Fortune Cover

Posted 05.25.2011

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When Fortune magazine asked comic book artist and Oak Park resident Chris Ware to design the cover of their "Fortune 500" issue, they were probably no...

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Hello Britain, Meet Chicago: Granta Takes a Toddlin' Town Tour

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Freeman, Publishing, Chicago, Aleksandar Hemon, Alex Kotlowitz, Chris Ware, Sandra Cisneros, Barack Obama, Granta, Granta Chicago Issue, Granta Chicago, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

It's Chicago's turn to inspire an issue of Granta, the esteemed British literary journal that seems to instantly confer upon the subscriber a mantle of elevated intellect, or at least the appearance of it. I talked about the issue with editor John Freeman.

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Chris Ware, Grim Gastronomic Griper

Michael Nagrant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Nagrant

Even when I was an unemployed web designer and before I became a food writer, we set aside money and saved to dine at Alinea precisely because we thought there was something more important going on.

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