Arts Issue 2021

For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Josh Carroll draws comics, writes fiction and plays drums. A longtime resident of Iowa City, he now resides in southeast Cedar Rapids. This article was originally published in Little Village issue 290.

For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Deborah Elizabeth Whaley is an artist, curator, writer, poet and Professor of American and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. Her recent book, ‘Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime’ […]

For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Caroline Mascardo is a junior at Iowa City West High School. When they aren’t making political cartoons for the school newspaper, you can probably find them practicing violin, reading something by Kurt Vonnegut or consuming […]

For the 2021 Arts Issue, Little Village asked local artists to “build a utopia” through a one- or two-page comic. Lauren Haldeman is the author of ‘Instead of Dying’ (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry), ‘Calenday’ and ‘The Eccentricity is Zero.’ A graphic novelist and poet, she has received an Iowa Arts Fellowship, […]