Fiction
Tragic Strip
Contributor
Tom MotleyTom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.
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Tragedy with a Chewy Comic Center: MADELEINE GEORGE with Matt Longabucco
FEB 2019 | Theater
Madeline George's real ambition to connect with people through writing and stage the conversations that animate her formidable mind, helps show me (and many) what a principled and truly evolving practice can and should achieve.
40. (330 West 42nd Street)
By Raphael RubinsteinFEB 2021 | The Miraculous
Some eight months before the country enters the Second World War, two New York comic-book artists create a flashy super-hero who vigorously defends the United States against all enemies. In the first issue he is shown beating up no one less than Adolf Hitler.
“They’re Not Normal People”: Azazel Jacobs’s French Exit
By Madeline WhittleFEB 2021 | Film
An exceptional ensemble cast—including Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges—renders the absurd with singular emotional nuance (and comic timing) in Azazel Jacobs’s latest, co-written by and adapted from a novel by Patrick DeWitt.
The Road to Golgonooza
By T. Motley, Mariko Sanchez, and Dorothy and Dashiell MorseMAY 2020 | Fiction
T. Motley will continue his fake jam comic, The Road to Golgonooza, at Penumbric.com
