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Can comics be art? Well, duh. We've finally gotten to the point where comics — or graphic novels, or sequential art, or whatever you call 'em — have some respect in the public eye, and it only took 4,000 Maus-referencing New York Times articles to get there. The question now is not "Can comics be art?" but "How good can they be?," and each year, cartoonists provide ever-more exciting answers, including remarkably insightful works about sex and relationships. This month, Nerve explores the expanding medium, with interviews and original art from some of comics' greatest. — Peter Smith
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| INTERVIEWS |
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Family Circus by Peter Smith
An interview with Alison Bechdel, the author of Fun Home.
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Love and Hate by Peter Smith
Comics legend Peter Bagge on comedy, gender and his forgiving family.
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Dyspeptic Planet by Peter Smith
Evan Dorkin on Milk and Cheese, parenthood and depression.
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The Anxiety Corner by Sarah Harrison
Q&A: Roz Chast, purveyor of the horrible and the hilarious.
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| SEX ADVICE FROM |
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Comic-Store Clerks
Q: I want to dress up as a sexy superhero for my boyfriend. Advice?
A: If you're busty, I have two words for you: Power Girl.
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Pillow Fighters
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| FROM THE ARCHIVES |
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Archie After Dark by Ken Tucker
The illicit thrill of Dan DeCarlo's pin-up art. |
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Northwest Passage by Ryan Boudinot
In Charles Burns' Black Hole, horny teens turn into forest mutants. As did I. |
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Comic Relief by Will Doig
The True Porn series takes the squirm out of the unspeakable. |
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Love is a Desert by Sarah Sundberg
Marjane Satrapi on her latest comic, Embroderies. |
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Graphic Artistry by Michael Martin
Inside Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl. |
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Demon Hunters, Cyborgs and Babes by Adam Rogers
Warped women in Japanese animation. |
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One Man's Anime by Jack Murnighan
Just how much animated Japanese porn can our writer take? |
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The Brothers Freud by Gwynne Watkins
Alan Moore talks about his 336-page fairy tale porno. |
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© 2007 Nerve.com, Inc.
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