Garbage Pail Kids

Many comics creators can be applauded for garnering the art form a more popular legitimacy, but it can be argued that nobody has done more than Art Spiegelman. Born to Holocaust survivors on February 15, 1948, Spiegelman has acted as comics' ambassador for decades, working to reduce the gap between the perceived high art of the galleries and the perceived low art of the comics page. And it wasn't entirely because of Maus...

Advertising: Ad Agency Tapsa used images of a tortured superhero promote the Fancine Film Festival in Spain. Upcoming: Abrams ComicArts will release its Garbage Pail Kids hardcover on April 1, which features full-page art from the trading card line's first five series...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Different class ^ Separations % Freaks * ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN This 1986-1987 Frank Miller/Bill Sienkiewicz miniseries might be the most visually impressive thing Marvel has published in the direct-market era--Sienkiewicz at the absolute peak of his form, a phenomenal he-do-the-police-in-dif