Adam Elkhadem (with Kearin Cook on inks) returns with a brand new comic about the good old days: the 16th-century! In this prelude to the weekly strip, a very special guest introduces the basic conceit of the series…the most special guest of all: GOD!

Zuggy and Kathy hook up their machine, Ollie wins a bet, and contraptions whirr to life. Will Zuggy and Kathy get the answers they seek, or will this night prove fruitless and forlorn?

After Effect — James Turrell’s latest “Wedgework” (recently presented by Pace) — takes up this question of the imaginary dimensions of time and space and their relationship to perception, memory, and thought.

This idea that vital imaginative material might be found in the plainest, basest, least developed reaches of art’s irreducible building blocks is among the most promising suppositions to be found in artistic thinking today.

The wind howls against the trailer’s tin walls. 

“You’re not special,” he says. “You’re not the main character.”

Then who is? But he doesn’t read fiction.

If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours…and nobody gets itchier than Zuggy and Kathy!

Kathy explains the scam that is A Christmas Carol, pointing out several shocking discrepancies within the age old plot. Thought-provoking as ever…but can they convince their less-than-righteous host?

The potential of this kind of work lies in its ability to pervert reality. This is not to say distort reality, to make it into a “cruel illusion,” but transform it: to manipulate and reconfigure reality according to one’s impulses and for its own sake.

Cinema remains the least understood of major arts. So often film commentaries discuss mostly, or only, the plot. But to begin to understand any film, one must examine it as cinema, shot by shot, edit by edit, in terms of composition, lighting, movement, editing rhythms and juxtapositions, and more, because the way the viewer sees its depictions affects how one feels and thinks about what is shown

The space of Herrera’s paintings is not the real space we “inhabit” in the gallery or otherwise, but rather the illusory world of images and vision. Hers is the dream ground which, for over hundreds of years, artists have used to tell us stories, to perpetuate the likeness of people and landscapes, or reflect their feelings and visions materialized in objects.

The two standpoints that Lin has employed in his work, detached nihilism and eclectic mysticism, have been hallmarks of various countercultural strands that, since the 19th century, have tried to deal with the death of God and the crisis of modernity.

Talk about being cat-called! From fake magicians and electricians to the cosmic crusaders we know and love, Zuggy and Kathy have led lives at every sector of society. Ollie tells all!

After the Snake, the title of which evokes another Fall, is a haunting meditation on the apocalyptic landscapes that – if like Dun we have the courage to look at them – lie smoking on the boundaries of our consciousness.

There’s this TikTok trend my roommate told me about. You’re supposed to open the book on your nightstand to page 30 and read the first line. Apparently it describes your love life. Murder Suey is the book on my nightstand. In Murder Suey, page 30 is blank.

No sooner had the juggler delighted our heroes than he had left them entirely. So ends a strange and universe-expanding episode for Casper and Fauntleroy!

Ollie provides essential background on Zuggy and Kathy’s origins, as well as his own. Just as the “offical” story becomes clearer, however, we are met with a twist. Who are Zuggy and Kathy…really?

Monique Fong discusses Surrealism with Erin Hagood.

“I'll begin with setting up the image…” Greg Gerke reflects on a shot in Carlos Reygadas’s Japón

Our heroes and the mysterious juggler are reduced to a scrambled sea of shapes and sounds! Have they finally met their match? What is going on here?!

As Zuggy and Kathy touch on the sadder side of Christmas in their interrogation, a cat and a chicken muse on the more bureaucratic side of their work. Explanations are in order, and they’ve got nothing better to do!