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October 2011: The Goods
by Print staff
This issue features a new album from Girls, a personal project by Chip Kidd, Sagmeister's Portuguese identity, and a place for social media to gather.... More

State Mottos: A Designers' Atlas
by Print staff
The project Fifty and Fifty, via the talents of illustrators from across the country, constructs a new view on America’s traditional state mottos.... More

What We're Reading: Red Book
by Sarah Zimmerman
What’s black and white and red all over? David Shrigley’s latest read, Red Book. The hard-to-miss bright red paperback is a continuation of Shrigley’s pokerfaced scrawls depicting everyday observations, thoughts and some not-so-common comments on life’s little adventures.... More

What We're Reading: For Love and Money
by Sarah Zimmerman
Today’s illustrators must feel like kids in a candy store: The days of either/or (pencil or pixels) are officially over, and the possibilities are endless.... More

Remaindered: Typography Papers 8
by Paul Shaw
Typography Papers 8 does not tell the whole story of British graphic design after World War II—but it tells a story worth hearing, a story that focuses more on politics than aesthetics.... More

Let's Get Logical: Logicomix Reviewed
by Steven Lukes
This is not Logic for Dummies or a “textbook or treatise in the unlikely guise of a graphic novel.” It is a story—the story of “a man who hoped to find a way of getting absolutely right answers.”... More

Drawn In
by Caitlin Dover
So many fine-art books are designed in such a staid, expected way that a book like One Thousand Drawings comes as a treat and a surprise.... More

Regular Features
by Caitlin Dover
I’m exactly the wrong person to review Sarah Stolfa’s book of photographs, The Regulars. Her portraits of patrons at a Philadelphia dive are simply candy to someone like me who loves any portrait—a blurry iPhone snap, a 17th-century Dutch likeness—better than any other kind of picture.... More

R. Crumb Re-Presents the Old, Weird Western Civilization
by Bill Kartalopoulos
Robert Crumb’s new, long-form comics adaptation of the Book of Genesis may be more immediately accessible to casual graphic novel readers than to devotees of the celebrated cartoonist’s satirical, psychedelic, sexual, and endlessly self-excavating short-form comics of the past forty-two years.... More

Four Photographs of an Atomic Bomb
by Drew Dernavich
Images of the atom bomb have ceased to shock. The mushroom cloud has a cozy familiarity; the fireball has been adopted by the movies. But these 1952 photographs still manage to jolt... More

Poster Child
by Michael Silverberg
Mike Mills’s new book nicely captures the contradictory natures of the personal and the profitable.... More

Books: The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
by John Canemaker
In October 1952, the first Mad comic book was published. AND THE UNIVERSE MOVED for nine-year old me and millions of American kids.... More

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