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Wash Day, Nubia: Real One) always knew she would be an illustrator. Her father was a portrait artist, her mother a makeup artist — and young Robyn's creativity was encouraged from an early age. After school, she worked on her homework in the playroom that doubled as her father's studio. She'd watch as he carved charcoal sticks and spread the shavings with his fingers across a blank canvas. His ability to create stunning hyperrealistic black and white portraits for his clients with just his hands always fascinated her. Inspired by her father's work, Smith would regularly distract herself at...

Robyn Smith talks about breaking into comics, staying true to her style, and why The Avengers was a game-changer.

S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79 His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.” S. Clay Wilson’s cover for Zap Comix No. 3; he also contributed a 10-page story to the issue. His influence on fellow underground cartoonists was evident and ubiquitous.Credit...S. Clay Wilson/Zap Comix Feb. 9, 2021 S. Clay Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of the underground cartoonists who first achieved notoriety as contributors to Zap Comix in the late 196...

This scene from the 1995 movie  Mallrats captures the long-prevailing view of Lee, the man behind Marvel during the comics renaissance of the 1960s, when superheroes became wittier and more angsty, more human than ever before. To many fans, he  was a kind of god. Yet the same month the movie was released, the magazine  The Comics Journal devoted an issue to Lee that was not entirely favorable. The cover featured a caricature of him as a grinning ringmaster with an oversize head, and cover lines teased “a circus of celebration” alongside “a carnival of criticism.” Inside, one art...

The daily grotesque Warren Craghead first drew Donald Trump on July 21, 2016. Trump had just accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, in a speech that described the political leaders he vowed to replace as “a group of censors, critics, and cynics” who would “say anything to keep a rigged system in place.” Watching coverage of the speech on television from his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, Craghead sketched a grotesque portrait on a notecard; in it, Trump appears reptilian, squinty and jowly and unctuous—a bit like a Komodo dragon stuffed into a suit. Later, Cr...