Gabe Fowler

Aug 19, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Gabe Fowler

During Covid quarantine, artists were asked to make comics describing their ideal future for an online project called Rescue Party (now a book from Pantheon). How accurate were their predictions? Jo Aguliar predicts a “Cat Utopia” in which cats plot world domination, making people into pets and the world into a giant litter box. Caio Calsad spends so much time online that they transcend the shackles of physicality and now exist only as an avatar.

Jul 22, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Gabe Fowler |Gene Yang |Ayn Rand

An invaluable time capsule and an arresting expression of the human condition. Editor and comic-shop owner Fowler curates a collection of more than 140 nine-panel-grid comic strips created during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic by a variety of artists responding to his call to envision the utopia waiting on the other side of quarantine.

Apr 27, 2024 | newyorker.com | Gabe Fowler

When the novel coronavirus began to spread across the globe in 2020, Gabe Fowler, the founder of the Comic Arts Brooklyn festival and owner of the Desert Island Comics shop, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, had to shutter his store, temporarily severing his ties to the community of artists and fans who had gathered around it for the past fifteen years. Despite this emotional distance, Fowler found a certain commonality: “We were together in our isolation,” he said.