The Nib magazine Color issue

Red earth, blue states, green movements, pink clothes, and rainbow flags. Colors define our politics, moods, and natural world. In this issue more than 30 cartoonists explore the codes of gender, the fluorescents of the Mariana Trench, colorism, clothing, and more.

 
 

Cover by Xulin

Featuring comics on:

  • The global Green movement

  • Working as a colorblind artist

  • How octopuses communicate

  • What makes our readers see red

  • The ultimate gender reveal

  • Pantone colors of (my) year!

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Mirranda Burton

Mark Kaufman

Erlend Sandøy

Ally Schwed

The full lineup for the magazine is:

  • A Vision in Monochrome: Colorblindness in a Color-Coded World by M. Sabine Rear

  • The Light Where the Dark Came In: An Odyssey Through South African Apartheid

    by Mirranda Burton

  • Environmental Utopia: Can the Global Green Movement Deliver It To Us? by Erlend Hjortland Sandøy

  • Marea Verde Rising by Sarah Shay Mirk and Laura Athayde

  • The History and Science of Gendered Colors by Ally Shwed

  • Morena: Colorism in the Philippines by Apollo Baltazar

With Dispatches, Strips, and other contributions from:

  • For The Response, cartoonists on clothing choices from Damian Alexander, Georgina Chadderton, Mike Dawson, and Lesley Imgart.

  • Work stats by Peter and Maria Hoey, Archive material on the newspaper comics color process by Glenn Fleishman, and in our letters to the editor Maki Naro illustrates things that make our readers see red. Plus an interview with Dr. Jundit Pungot on how octopuses communicate with color by Audra McNamee.

  • Dispatches from Andy Warner and Tracy Chahwan, Rumi Hara, Trinidad Escobar, Yazan al-Saadi and J. Gilling, Linette Moore, Lynn Von Sien, and Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson.

  • Strips by Emil Wilson, Whit Taylor, KC Green, Mattie Lubchansky, Gemma Correll, Joey Alison Sayers, Jen Sorensen, Emily Flake, and Archie Bongiovani.

  • With illustrations by Mady G and Mark Kaufman and covers by Xulin.

Mattie Lubchansky

Sarah Shay Mirk/Laura Athayde

Joey Alison Sayers

Emily Flake

Ernesto Barbieri / Jess Ruliffson

Yazan Al-Saadi/J. Gilling

Rumi Hara

Andy Warner/Tracy Chahwan