Jake Austen

For those whose bookshelves bulge with comics collections, this is a golden age. It can partly be attributed to designer Chip Kidd championing the decay and aesthetic limitations of archival...

Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor, Fantagraphics, 112 pages, $24.99 If you've read Ed Piskor's sources — including Jeff Chang's and Russell Simmons' accounts of the late '70s, when...

I once spent a week in Anchorage. When touring outside the city, Alaska's natural beauty surpassed expectations. However, my Anchorage days and nights positively defied preconceptions. There were young people...

Earlier this month the pre-Halloween episode of "The Simpsons" opened with an elaborate three-minute segment directed by Guillermo del Toro, in which Bart joyfully skateboards up the tentacle of a...

Conventional digital age wisdom says that the chestnut about the might of pens, i.e. swords, should be amended to specify keyboard strokes, as paper is now passé. Likewise, in an...

Despite being a PG-rated, angst-adjacent, teen coming of age story, it wasn't until the 270th page (of 289) that I realized "Zero Fade," Chris L. Terry's debut novel, was a...