The New York Comics Symposium: Michael Joseph - The Rumpus

By The New York Comics & Picture-Story SymposiumMarch 8, 20138 min read

The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it

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