Since joining the University of Chicago faculty in 2010, Hillary Chute quickly established herself as the campus’ resident comics expert. In addition to co-teaching a course on comics and ...

A mythic coach marks his 50th anniversary Monday. If you haven’t paid him a visit in a while, this might be a fine time.Gil Thorp, coach and athletic director for the Milford Mudlarks, made his ...

Just as the works of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware and Alison Bechdel have proven that comics can tell important stories about complex family relationships and the Holocaust, graphic medicine has flexed ...

Not quite, says Garrett Kiely, director of the University of Chicago Press and self-professed Kindle user. Kiely will be speaking on this very subject—that is, the fate of books and publishing in the ...

Comic books have always suffered from a kind of personality crisis. Forced to occupy the unfavorably ambiguous space between cartoons and the novel, they have been shrugged off for years as either too ...

An amazing comics convention took place at the University of Chicago. Comics: Philosophy & Practice, hosted by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center of Art and Inquiry, featured such acclaimed and ...

How can doctors learn to be more empathetic? Comics journalist Josh Neufeld’s “Empathy 101” describes how a University of Chicago doctor is part of a movement to show them how.

Eric Kirsammer, owner of Chicago Comics and Quimby’s Bookstore, curates our Comics Issue by Chicago Reader February 25, 2014 August 18, 2021. Share this: ...