Lane Milburn – Cartooning’s Strange Cosmic Web

Sifting through childhood memories, popular culture, otherworldly experiences, and comic's seminal artists, Lane Milburn has developed a distinct literary and visual cosmology that navigates alien worlds, literature, and tomfoolery. The COMP Magazine visited Milburn's Pilsen studio early this year to discuss Twelve Gems (Fantagraphics Books, 2014), his affinity ...
April 9, 2015
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Ian Weaver – Black Knights’ Archive

Inner-city American experience holds numerous tenets rife with possibility for interpretation. For over a decade, Ian Weaver has explored the history and memories of Chicago's African-American community in a series of thoughtful and provocative works. I was first introduced to Weaver while living over on 18th Street. His honest ...
March 15, 2015
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Matt Siber – Consumer Desires

We live in an ultra-complex capitalist system that trains the population to over-consume. Our habits are transforming the planet in which we live at an accelerated rate. Artist Matt Siber has investigated the systems, strategies, and methods of consumption through logical progression in a series of projects over the ...
February 19, 2015
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Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience

Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP Magazine recently visited Leenaars’ Humboldt Park studio to discuss making art in a new country, how collaboration is essential to being human and why play should be something not lost in ...
January 15, 2015
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