In one of many funny scenes in Alison Bechdel’s new comic novel “Spent,” the writer/cartoonist has drawn herself — or, more precisely, a loosely fictionalized protagonist named Alison — pulling Karl ...

Tom Toro, a cartoonist for The New Yorker and a resident of Portland, Oregon, has released his fourth picture book, ...

Bechdel keeps the jokes coming at the pace of a good “Simpsons” episode, and with the same self-referential reflexes, ...

Bechdel’s latest title refers to late-stage capitalism, the semi-facetious frame for the book (which is broken into “episodes ...