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About Austin Lanari

Austin Lanari knows more about meta-ethical constructivism than he does about comics. He's working on fixing that. Follow him @AustinLanari

About Austin Lanari

Austin Lanari knows more about meta-ethical constructivism than he does about comics. He's working on fixing that. Follow him @AustinLanari

Here are my most recent posts

Here’s an Idea for a Funhouse: Pay the Damn Cartoonists

April 3, 2018 By Austin Lanari 2 Comments

Funhouse

Do cartoonists deserve to be paid for their labor? It’s a yes or no question. And, frankly, it doesn’t seem to be a very hard question. But I’ll give you a minute. A week before my writing this, Brooklyn comic book store Desert Island and the SoHo based Drawing Center put on an event called […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: art, Broken Frontier, comics, Desert Island, Drawing Center, Funhouse, indie comics, Robin Enrico

Comics Aren’t Their Creative Process

September 15, 2017 By Austin Lanari Leave a Comment

As a comic critic, at a certain point, it’s hard to keep up with the sheer volume of unjustified, shoot-from-the-hip, self-interested hot takes about the alleged piss poor quality of the average comic book review. With the amount of noise that’s been made, you would think someone would link a review or two, or at […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Criticism

Anatomy of a Page: Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto

December 16, 2015 By Austin Lanari Leave a Comment

Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Anatomy of a Page, comics, manga, Naoki Urasawa, Osamu Tezuka, Pluto

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Contributors: Nate Abernethy, John Bender, AJ Bernardo, CJ Camba, Liam Conlon, Daniel Elkin, David A. French, Rafael Gaitan, Dylan Garsee, Stefanie Gray, Johnson Hagood, Shea Hennum, Zak Kinsella, Austin Lanari, Marissa Louise, Francesca Lyn, Chase Magnett, Justin Martin, Diana Naneva, Claire Napier, Joshua Palmer, James Pound, Mike Prezzato, Lars Russell, David Sackllah, Keith Silva, Nicholas Slayton, Carly Smith, Ray Sonne, Tom Speelman, Mark O. Stack, Dylan Tano, Mason Walker

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Nonfiction: Progeny in Crisis by Kayleigh Hughes

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Interviews

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