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John Lees’s oneiric landscapes and portraits are haunted. And not only by his acknowledged sources, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Fauves like Rouault and Dufy, the precursors of Expressionism, the niche to which Lees is usually assigned. There are other ghosts, especially the mysterious landscapes of Samuel Palmer, themselves channels for the otherworldly works of William Blake. So, Lees is a strange kind of Romantic who finds himself painting in the twenty-first century.

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George Herriman's Krazy Kat was likely more influential than popular. But he certainly had a fan base beyond other cartoonists.

Travis Dandro's second graphic memoir, the touching 'Hummingbird Heart,' paints the teen's deeply emotional world.

"Man Saves Comics" includes features from the 1890s to 1980s, while "The Art of the News" examines contemporary issue through comics journalism.

“Black Firsts: 500 Years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events” is now in its fourth edition, a 30-year project of Jessie Carney Smith.

Super rare Pokémon card soars to $50,600 at Weiss Auctions Extremely rare Pokémon SM Black Star “Ishihara GX” promotional trading card, graded PSA 8 Near Mint/Mint, one of only about 60 copies in existence ($50,600). LYNBROOK, NY .- An extremely rare Pokémon SM Black Star “Ishihara GX” promotional trading card, graded PSA 8 Near Mint/Mint, one of only about 60 copies in existence and just the fourth copy to ever reach the market, sold for $50,600 in a two-day, online-only auction held No...

LYNBROOK, N.Y. – An extremely rare Pokémon SM Black Star “Ishihara GX” promotional trading card, graded PSA 8 Near Mint/Mint, one of only about 60 copies in existence and just the fourth copy to ever reach the market, sold for $50,600 in a two-day, online-only auction held November 19th-20th by Weiss Auctions. The card was the top lot in a sale that totaled $675,000.   The Pokémon Black Star card was issued in 2017 and was only given out to Pokémon Company Internation...