From the Archives: Chester Brown (2011)

Chester Brown must have known what he was getting himself into. In creating Paying for It, the Toronto-based cartoonist was setting himself up for criticism, not just of his work but of himself and his chosen lifestyle.

From the Archives: Art Spiegelman (2013)

Spiegelman notes that the barrier between “high art” and “lowbrow” has eroded significantly over the past 20-odd years. More and more, work like his is being taken seriously, for better or worse.

Orijit Sen

For last week's Georgia Straight, I interview Indian graphic artist and comics creator Orijit Sen. We talked about his massive mural in the Punjab, a scaled-down version of which he has brought to Vancouver for the Indian Summer festival. We also discussed his first graphic novel, River of Stories, published in 1994. Like the fictional …