Review: Eric Haven’s comics bring madness and sanity together for a hug
Eric Haven’s new collection of short works, Compulsive Comics, offers good laughs and vigorous surrealism, and you can easily enjoy it for those two...
Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection
Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French...
Review: Robert Silverberg gets a makeover
Adapted from Robert Silverberg’s 1970 novel of the same title, writer Phillippe Thirault and artist Laura Zuccheri face the challenge of helping the nearly...
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....
Review: Turning the mirror on Velazquez in ‘The Ladies In Waiting’
This biography of 17th Century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez wraps itself around one work, in particular, Las Meninas, or The Ladies In Waiting, from...
Review: Ellice Weaver’s ‘Something City’ is a Busytown for the 21st Century
Like a Richard Scarry book for the modern urbanite, Ellice Weaver’s beautifully drawn Something City weaves together various corners of an urban environment to create...
Review: The ‘Park Bench’ at the center of the universe
There have been several good works over the past few years - Here, A Castle In England, and 750 Years In Paris come to...
Review: Anneli Furmark’s drama of Swedish winter, politics, and family dynamics
That the personal is political is acknowledged by plenty, but seldom in the way, it’s portrayed in Red Winter.
Taking place in 1970s Sweden as...
Review: Deacon’s ‘Geis’ series depicts the human condition as a magical castle battle
In the fantasy series Geis, the European fantasy tropes are given a run for their money in a sort of It's A Mad Mad...
Review: Growing up with ‘The Case of the Missing Men’
From the Hardy Boys to Scooby Doo to Blue Velvet and onward the trope of teens attempting to solve mysteries is a well-worn one...
Faith Erin Hicks has written a YA novel called ‘Comics Will Break Your Heart’...
Faith Erin Hicks is the Canadian cartoonist, mostly known for drawing many graphic novels including, some written by her - like The Nameless City...
Review: ‘Beautiful Darkness’ team goes to Hell in ‘Satania’
There’s something delightfully old fashioned about Satania, at least at the beginning, and that nod to tradition is what makes the whole experience so...
