Review: ‘Bald Knobber’ combines simple history with complicated family lives
The title of Robert Sergel’s Bald Knobber isn’t just a silly word juxtaposition but actually refers to a historical group of vigilantes from the late...
Review: ‘Flocks’ is an inspirational autobiography
In my experience, once people get older and their teenage experience settles into a hazy myth in their brains that supplants the actual memories,...
Review: Liana Finck’s ‘Passing For Human’ gets to the core of all of us
One of the things I like best about Liana Finck is her ability to not only be the only thing like her in comics...
Review: The innocence of childhood is brief in David Small’s ‘Home After Dark’
David Small is old enough to remember the realities of a free-range childhood as the norm that is often romanticized by people my age....
Review: Joff Winterhart is a master at capturing the human soul in ‘Other People’
Joff Winterhart’s Other People brings together two self-contained stories in the same volume, joined by common themes and similar characters, and also Winterhart’s mastery...
Review: ‘Garlandia’ is a fully-formed and frantic fantasyland
On one hand, Garlandia has all the charm and intimacy of the characters from which it pulls obvious influence, the Moomins — the book...
Review: Civilization works against ‘A House In The Jungle’
In small-town situations, it can be a challenge to live as an outlier. You might be able to separate yourself from the general networking...
Review: ‘The Wolves of La Louviere’ portrays the slow pace of World War II...
Europe Comics has carved out an interesting niche by releasing French and Belgian comics in ebook format to make them more available and affordable,...
Review: Javi Rey’s ‘Out in the Open’ is a quiet, dark coming of age...
From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it...
Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness
In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the...
Review: Slavery exists and Vannak Anan Prum asks you to not turn away from...
Americans are made to be well aware that the big wide world is fraught with danger. Especially for Americans. When we hear about murders,...
Review: ‘The Great North Wood’ is a magnificent meditation on hidden history
As a meditation on man’s relationship with nature and the landscape, and the poetic ironies inherent in this relationship, The Great North Wood presents...
