{"id":22319,"date":"2026-08-22T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?p=22319"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:49:12","slug":"jg-thirlwell-in-nyc-comix-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/news\/jg-thirlwell-in-nyc-comix-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"JG Thirlwell in NYC Comix Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Real Life Comix, Only in New York<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (Hardcover, 216 pgs.) features 51 short stories in a sprawling graphic novel anthology celebrating the grit, glory, absurdity and heart of life in New York City.<\/p>\n

Co-edited by veteran comix creators Dean Haspiel<\/strong> and Doug Latino<\/strong>, this vibrant collection brings together a wildly eclectic mix of legendary and emerging voices, including New Yorker<\/span> cartoonists, MAD<\/span> contributors, and American Splendor<\/span> collaborators. Storytellers hail from across comix, comics, graphic novels, literature, art, film, and music, each offering their own take on the city that never sleeps\u2013humorous, heartbreaking, surreal or unmistakably true\u2013capturing the everyday chaos and accidental poetry of New York life.<\/p>\n

The anthology features work from cultural luminaries and underground icons alike, including Roz Chast, David Collier, Joe Dator, Gary Dumm, Liana Finck, Bob Fingerman, Drew Friedman, Danny Hellman, Ben Katchor, Gideon Kendall, Keith Knight, Peter Kuper, Barbara Willy Mendes, Rachelle Meyer, Josh Neufeld, Ann Nocenti, Rick Parker, R. Sikoryak, Noah Van Sciver, Doug Latino, Julia Wertz, Ron Wimberly, Jonathan Ames, Karl Stevens, Onur Tukel, Spencer Alexander, Wesley Allsbrook, Dieu Sam B., Jonathan Baylis, Nick Bertozzi, Wendy Blake, C. Cassano, Cecil Castellucci, Ezra Cumbo, Vito Delsante, Jen Ferguson, Dean Haspiel, Charles Fetherolf, Christopher Gomez, Ben Granoff, James Greene, Sarah Lee Grillo, Jennifer Hayden, Ariel Kahtan, Whitney Matheson, Jared Miller, Moby, Chris Miskiewicz, Eli Neugboren, Ayoko Nito, Pat Palermo, Joan Reilly, Peter Rostovsky, Gil Roth, Rani Som, JG Thirlwell, Cynthia Von Buhler, Sean Von Gorman, Steve Walker, Owen Brozman, Carol Tyler,<\/strong> and Tony Wolf<\/strong>\u2013each conveying a singular voice and style within the city\u2019s ever-evolving mythology.<\/p>\n

The book features a striking cover by acclaimed sibling illustrators Maria and Peter Hoey<\/strong>, a preface by Columbia University’s Karen Green<\/strong> and a foreword and two illustrated contributions by the one and only Drew Friedman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You can purchase the book here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real Life Comix, Only in New York (Hardcover, 216 pgs.) features 51 short stories in a sprawling graphic novel anthology celebrating the grit, glory, absurdity and heart of life in New York City. Co-edited by veteran comix creators Dean Haspiel and Doug Latino, this vibrant collection brings together a wildly eclectic mix of legendary and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18],"tags":[2260,2288,2294,2257,2284,2253,2250,2276,2304,2277,2282,2292,2283,2300,2252,2246,2281,2272,2264,2251,2293,2278,2248,2254,2298,2285,2290,2280,2287,649,2296,2247,2267,2273,2259,2265,2268,2255,2249,2306,2291,2274,2263,2244,2269,2303,2295,2256,2297,2262,2258,2299,2243,2261,2266,2245,2286,2301,2270,2302,2305,2279,2275,2271,2289],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22322,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319\/revisions\/22322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}