Creative Time Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now
Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio, Lauren Weinstein, Anton Kannemeyer, Packard Jennings, Jeffrey Brown, Emilia Edwards, Luba Lukova, James Pyman, Jim Torok, and more
Online-only
Ongoing
Image: Lauren Weinstein
Drawing upon comics’ long history of timely social and political critique—their vested interest in capturing and commenting on the zeitgeist—Creative Time Comics invites artists to produce new, online comics that address the issues facing our world. In the process, the works in this series smudge and redraw the lines between social inquiry, political engagement, and visual entertainment—taking on difficult subjects through the economical means of words and pictures in juxtaposition. As a starting point, each artist was given a blank grid of nine squares and asked to draw within or defy its borders. The finished works are featured for one month before being archived chronologically.