Rick Kogan: Designer and illustrator Monte Beauchamp brings comic anthology ‘BLAB!’ back to compelling, colorful life

CHICAGO — “BLAB!” is back and although you may not even know what “BLAB!” is, I tell you that it is among the most creative books to ever come from Chicago, even if a writer for the Los Angeles Reader once wrote that “At its peak, (“BLAB!”) is like The New Yorker for mutants.”

I love “BLAB!”, the creation of one of our most creative people. His name is Monte Beauchamp and he has long been an art director and graphic designer here, creating a stunning body of work that includes many books, exhibitions and this amazing comic anthology he calls “BLAB!”