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Review: The mind-bending wild west meditation of ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’

02/13/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: The mind-bending wild west meditation of ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’

In Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang’s The Smell of Starving Boys, the words “virgin land” are used several times to describe America’s West. The idea is that this area is untouched, but photographer Oscar Forrest points out to his fellow expedition member Stingley, it is not untouched. It just hasn’t been possessed by white […]

Filed Under: Art, Art Comix, Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Literary Comics, Reviews Tagged With: frederik peeters, Loo Hui Phang, SelfMadeHero

Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’

09/26/2017 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’

This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have some bond between them that seems to be melding who they are, or at least who they think they are. We greet the day with Tom, who doesn’t truly greet anything. […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Literary Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Andrzej Klimowski, Deborah Levy, SelfMadeHero

Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer

08/01/2017 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer

Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting both of them together into a probably inevitable horror finale. But Pieter Coudyzer does ask an interesting question — what if your place of respite is also an affliction that tortures […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Literary Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Pieter Coudyzer, SelfMadeHero

Preview: Josephine Baker by Muller and Bouquet captures a whole era and a timeless hero

03/29/2017 2:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Preview: Josephine Baker by Muller and Bouquet captures a whole era and a timeless hero

If you’re looking for a real-life badass heroine, you won’t find a better one than Josephine Baker.

Filed Under: Graphic Novels, News, Previews Tagged With: catel mueller, History, jose-louis Bouquet, josephine baker, SelfMadeHero

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2016

12/29/2016 3:00 pm by Beat Staff

The Beat’s Best Comics of 2016

Featuring Beat staff members and special contributions from some of the best cartoonists of the year. It was a wild year but there were some good comics to keep us entertained and thinking.

Filed Under: Awards, Top News Tagged With: Aatmaja Pandja, best of 2016, Comics, Dark Horse, DC Comics, March, Marvel, Sam Bosma, SelfMadeHero, Superman, Top Shelf

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/14/16: “All are equal at a comic con”

11/14/2016 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/14/16: “All are equal at a comic con”

§ Nice Art: It seems the comics world has come to a standstill for some reason. So here’s a preview of a 2017 graphic novel: Gauguin: The Other World by Fabrizio Dori, part of SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series – they’ve also published books on Munch, Van Gogh and Picasso. The book comes out in March: […]

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits Tagged With: area man, comic con india, Fabrizio Dori, gauguin, north carolina comicon, rhode island comic con, Ron Wimberly, SelfMadeHero

Review: Two successful bios of very different men

10/18/2016 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: Two successful bios of very different men

It’s always a pleasure when a new graphic novel biography comes out about someone I know absolutely nothing about, and I certainly had no clue about the existence of Roger Casement. Fionnuala Doran‘s The Trial of Roger Casement covers exactly that, the circumstances by which he was tried for treason in the United Kingdom and […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Literary Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Abrams Comics Arts, biographies, Fionnuala Doran, nick bertozzi, pierre hargan, SelfMadeHero, women in comics

Comic Arts Brooklyn Debuts Part 1: punks, witches, cats, 3D Jim Woodring, more

11/05/2015 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Comic Arts Brooklyn Debuts Part 1: punks, witches, cats, 3D Jim Woodring, more

This weekend it’s Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg and here’s a look at the books that will be debuting. Thanks to all the contributing publishers and cartoonists for supplying the info and lightening our wallets.

Because there were so many new and exciting books I’m splitting this into two parts. Look for part two tomorrow!

Filed Under: Art Comix, CAFs, Indie Comics, Literary Comics, Top News Tagged With: Box Brown, CAB, CAFs, estrella bega, Fantagraphics, Indie Comics, James Kochalka, jordan crane, karl stevens, Lale Westvind, lane milburn, Malachi Ward, Michael DeForge, natalie andrewson, sabin cauldron, Sara VAron, SelfMadeHero, Tommi Mutsuri, Top News, Whitney Taylor

24 Hours of Halloween: The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, David Hine and Mark Stafford

10/31/2015 5:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

24 Hours of Halloween: The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, David Hine and Mark Stafford

The inspiration for the Joker is said to be this story by Victor Hugo about a mutilated man who aims to become the voice of a generation. It’s not really a “horror” story per se but often real life and social commentary can be just as scary as Michael Myers. Available on Sequential. Heidi MacDonaldHeidi […]

Filed Under: Helloween!, Holidays, Top News Tagged With: 31 days of halloween, david he, SelfMadeHero, Top News, victor hugo

SelfMadeHero discovers a new level of rip-off for The King in Yellow

06/10/2015 12:45 pm by Heidi MacDonald

SelfMadeHero discovers a new level of rip-off for The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow is a) Robert W. Chambers famed horror story about a play that dooms all who read it to madness b) a new graphic novel adaptation of the same by INJ Culbard published by SelfMadeHero. (See a preview here.)

It’s also c) a sneaky ripoff by someone on CreateSpace who used the cover to the Culbard book for their own self-published reprint of the prose book. The SelfMadeHero blog has all the details and how to spot the sneaky fake.

Filed Under: Books, Top News Tagged With: Books, inj culbard, SelfMadeHero, Top News

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