Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Flight, the comics anthology series created and edited by Kazu Kibuishi, has posted previews of the twenty-five works contained in the new volume which should be on shelves this week. While not technically a “themed” anthology, it is devoted completely to the publication of original comics- that is to say, it’s not like anything you’ve…

Not that it’s news to anyone, but Doug Marlette died last week in a car accident in Mississippi. Best known for the creation of the nationally syndicated daily newspaper strip, Kudzu, he was also a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist. I’ve enjoyed his editorial pieces for years, but Kudzu was never my taste. Having grown…

What can I say about Chris Onstad that hasn’t been said already in a thousand other places- this guy practically gets more press (relatively speaking, that is) than Paris Hilton, just for doing a lo-fi webcomic (to be honest, a guy who lives with his mother, and who only washes on Sunday and eats potted…

So for all of my crying about the thin line between “commercial” and “fine” art, I was extremely amused to find the above strip by Mr. Paul Southworth. For those of you who don’t know, Paul Southworth is the creator Ugly Hill. Ugly Hill is a webcomic dealing with the lives of the Bros. Killgore,…

One of my earliest artistic memories comes from my parents house in Miami. My dad had converted his garage into a workshop where he spent time on weekends doing carpentry work or building compositions out of stained glass. It was also where he stored his surfboards. In his workshop though, he had a space on…

I’ve been one to believe in the above idea for awhile, even going so far as to assert that the History of Art is the History of Comics, and lately it seems I’m not alone. Far cry from those days when I was told that comics weren’t. Seems there is a growing number of artists…