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Review: The unspoken and unseen take center stage in ‘Kingdom’

01/11/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 2 Comments

Review: The unspoken and unseen take center stage in ‘Kingdom’

Jon McNaught’s Kingdom captures the passive-aggressive clash between humankind and nature, and why it’s probably okay that they clash.

Filed Under: Art Comix, Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Indie Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Jon McNaught, Nobrow

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Charles Forsman and Max de Radiguès team-up for ‘Hobo Mom’

01/10/2019 4:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Charles Forsman and Max de Radiguès team-up for ‘Hobo Mom’

On the shelves January 22 from Fantagraphics

Filed Under: Comics, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novels, Indie Comics, Previews Tagged With: charles forsman, Fantagraphics, max de radigues

INDIE VIEW: True tales of the border, true parables of the monkey planet, and true insanity at the clothing store

01/09/2019 4:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

INDIE VIEW: True tales of the border, true parables of the monkey planet, and true insanity at the clothing store

Reviewed: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong, POTA: Visionaries by Dana Gould & Chad Lewis, The Scar by Andrea Ferraris & Reno Chiocca

Filed Under: Boom Studios, Comics, Fantagraphics, Indie Comics, Movie Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: andrea ferraris, chad lewis, dana gould, Fantagraphics, kus komiksi, Mexico, Planet of the Apes, politics, reno chiocca, yan cong

Review: Humankind never learns in ‘Fraternity’

01/07/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

Review: Humankind never learns in ‘Fraternity’

There’s something about North America that has inspired multiple stabs at utopianism.

Filed Under: Art, Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Literary Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: jeremy melloul, jose luis munuera, Juan Diaz Canales, Lion Forge

Interview: A. David Lewis embraces Kismet

01/04/2019 6:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

Interview: A. David Lewis embraces Kismet

As far as Muslim representation among superheroes goes, Kamala Khan a.k.a Ms. Marvel has been one of the most successful in a thin field. The first Muslim superhero seems to be Kismet, who appeared in 1944 in Bomber Comics, created by the pseudonymous “Omar Tahan,” and then Kismet disappeared seemingly forever. That is until Boston-based […]

Filed Under: Comics, Graphic Novels, History, Indie Comics, Indies, Small Presses, Writing Tagged With: A Wave Blue World, a. david lewis, Islam, islamophobia, Kismet, Muslim superheroes, natasha alterici, Noel Tuazon, Rob Crooneborghs, Taylor Esposito

Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’

01/04/2019 4:35 pm by John Seven 2 Comments

Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’

In Parallel Lives, Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen presents multiple versions of himself across the space-time continuum and well into dimensions that are untraceable in any normal sense, and he does so in a delivery that is decidedly singular. There’s no one else making comics like Schrauwen, and any given story is like an absurd deep […]

Filed Under: Art, Art Comix, Comics, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novels, Reviews Tagged With: Belgian comics, Fantagraphics, Olivier Schrauwen

INDIE VIEW: Mysterious titles from Europe Comics and Birdcage Bottom and a wacky They Might Be Giants Tie-in

01/02/2019 4:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

INDIE VIEW: Mysterious titles from Europe Comics and Birdcage Bottom and a wacky They Might Be Giants Tie-in

Aldo by Yannick Pelegrin Europe Comics What is going on with Aldo? He says he is immortal, having lived for 300  years, but sometimes his memory is sketchy after all that time, and he is stricken with the type of ennui that comes from such a long life. He loves his car and his friend […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Comics, Indie Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: birdcage bottom books, David Cowles, europe comics, Larkin Ford, they might be giants, Yannick Pelegrin

Interview: M. Dean still really likes The Carpenters, but she’s got it under control

12/28/2018 6:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

Interview: M. Dean still really likes The Carpenters, but she’s got it under control

In cartoonist M. Dean’s recent book from Fantagraphics, I Am Young, she traces moments in the lives of her characters through the music that defines those moments and sometimes captures the passage of time. Specific songs sometimes become life vests, while other times symbols of emotional separation. Dean has prepared a Spotify playlist from the […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Comics, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novels, Interviews

Review: Unpacking your demons in ‘The Vagabond Valise’

12/28/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

Review: Unpacking your demons in ‘The Vagabond Valise’

You can go find all the horror comics currently being published and line them up with The Vagabond Valise and probably not find one that is anywhere equal in the level of disturbance lobbed at the reader by Quebecois cartoonist Siris. Not that this book is a horror comic at all. Instead, it’s an autobiography […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Indie Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: Autobiographical Comics, canadian comics, conundrum press, quebecois comics, siris

INDIE VIEW: From monkeys and men to myths and marks

12/26/2018 4:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

INDIE VIEW: From monkeys and men to myths and marks

Mini Kuš! #69: Maud By Marlene Krause Kuš Komiksi This recent entry in the long series of wildly inventive and artistically-experimental little booklets from Latvia takes on the life of tattooed woman Maud Wagner, who became a sideshow attraction around the turn of the century. Wagner was originally a trapeze artist until she met tattooed […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Comics, Indie Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: autobiography, biography, Cailtin Cass, Kilgore Books, kus komiksi, Marlene Krause, Mike Freiheit, mini kus, nature, South Africa, travelogue

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