Like the end of the harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman’s “Subway Series,” Debbie Drechsler’s “The Summer of Love,” Lynda Barry’s ...

Even in the vulgar, in-your-face world of underground cartooning, Phoebe Gloeckner's work has raised hackles. Her first book, "A Child's Life," was both trumpeted as a sensitive portrayal of sexual ...

Graphic artist and professor Phoebe Gloeckner had an unconventional upbringing. When she was 15, she lost her virginity to an older man — who also happened to be her mother's boyfriend. Gloeckner ...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a very different kind of comicon. Organized by University of Chicago associate professor Hillary Chute (Graphic Women, 2006), "Comics: Philosophy & ...

Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard have been cast in The Diary of a Teenage Girl. They will star alongside British actress Bel Powley, who will make her US film debut in writer/director Marielle ...

At only 15, Little Minnie — the main character of Phoebe Gloeckner’s graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl — is growing up way too fast. She’s failing school, hanging out with the wrong crowd, and ...

With a chill, I read how University of Michigan students attempted to punish Phoebe Gloeckner for assigning R. Crumb, a canonical artist in American counterculture, in her course on comics (“My ...

Some 30,000 African elephants die each year as a result of poaching. Journalist Bryan Christy wanted to see where their tusks were going, so he created fake tusks and embedded them with GPS trackers.

When she was 15, Phoebe Gloeckner lost her virginity to her mother's boyfriend. Gloeckner wrote about the experience in 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl,' which Marielle Heller adapted into a film. We ...