Obsidian Butterfly
I am the wound that does not heal, the small solar stone: strike me, and the world will go up in flames. Had I not stolen that book, I most likely would not have been a writer. It was a collection of...
View ArticleResonant Mirtazapine
Here’s one thing. A man or sheep or meadow. Here’s another thing. A bell, a word, a drug. Because they coincide, somehow sharing space and time, they address and respond to one another whether they...
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The New Comics: Emily James
“MISS: Not About That Life” EMILY JAMES is a teacher and writer in NYC. Her recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Guernica, River Teeth, CHEAP POP, Pithead Chapel, Pidgeonholes, Hippocampus,...
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The Painter of Sad Faces
Nuri İyem, a prominent Turkish painter (1915-2005), is best known for painting sad faces and Anatolian migrants. These were his signature themes. İyem’s good friend, the famous Turkish author Ahmet...
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MISS: In Love With Two Women
MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics. Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy...
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MISS: God Needs People
MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics. Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy...
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The New Comics: Sam Nakahira
SAM NAKAHIRA is a MFA candidate at the Center for Cartoon Studies and a 2019 graduate of Grinnell College. She writes about things that interest her: food, pop culture, comics, history, and...
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MISS: Chanclettas
MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics. Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy...
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THE NEW COMICS: “In Your Car” by Andrés Hernández
ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ is a queer Mexican artist and writer currently living in Tijuana. Paired with raw sexual imagery, their writing and art address attachment and impermanence. Their artwork and...
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MISS: Valid
MISS runs twice a month as a part of The New Comics. Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith McCleary via the Entropy...
View ArticleJoker: A Hyper-ironic Indictment of our Hyper-ironic Culture
The Gotham City of Joker exists in a sort of 1980s purgatory. By design, the film never explicitly dates itself beyond the Carter- and Reagan-era cars and television sets dotting the screen. Instead it...
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MISS: Joy & Fridays
MISS has run twice a month since the summer as a part of The New Comics. Read our interview with Emily James here. Want to be considered for The New Comics? Send work to Comics Curator Keith...
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The New Comics: Nick Francis Potter, “Look Stop Have Haircut”
NICK FRANCIS POTTER is the author of New Animals (Subito Press, 2016). His work has recently appeared in The Offing, Quarterly West, Big Other, and Entropy Magazine. An alternative version of this...
View ArticleThe Fulfillment Center at Black Cube
Installation shot, The Fulfillment Center at the Black Cube Headquarters, 2019; image courtesy of the artists and Black Cube. Photo: Third Dune Productions Fetishizing the warehouse in America feels...
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The Five Positions and Simone Forti
This is a five paragraph essay about the five positions • This essay will explain something • in particular how dancer-choreographer Simone Forti inserted the personal in her work but filtered so it...
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The Nabis’ Eye-Pleasing Corners of Creation: Review of Bonnard to Vuillard:...
Edouard Vuillard, Interior with Red Bed, 1893, oil on cardboard Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday Life Phillips Collection, Washington DC October 26, 2019-January 26, 2020 “I don’t...
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Best of 2019: Comics & Graphic Novels
Past contributors from Entropy’s The New Comics give us their sequential art favorites of 2019. (Click publishers’ names for details and purchasing info.) JOHN CARDINAL 7 Deadly Sins TZE Chun &...
View ArticleWhen in Moscow…
Dance of the cygnets from Swan Lake, the Bolshoi Ballet In May 1992, just five months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, my plane finally landed at Moscow airport. My first flight to Moscow had...
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Escaping Cinematic Endlessness
We are at an end. We stand at the dusk of a decade. In a few short weeks the Earth’s final revolution around the sun will place us forever beyond what we will henceforth call the 2010s. We are at an...
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Still, Life: My Year in Art
Margaret Neumann, What You Want Georgia, my then 6-year-old daughter, and I clip on earrings and head to the Dior: From Paris to the World show at the Denver Art Museum. It’s January. A new year and...
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