INDIE VIEW: SAVE IT FOR LATER stresses complexity alongside activism
Save It For Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest
By Nate Powell
Abrams Comics Arts
Many of us can remember the punch in the gut...
INDIE VIEW: A HOUSE WITHOUT WINDOWS pulls away the curtains of the Central African...
A House Without Windows
Written and photographed by Marc Ellison
Illustrated by Didier Kassai
Humanoids Life Drawn
I’m going to confess — and I have a feeling...
INDIE VIEW: PARENTHESIS offers the fragility of self
Parenthesis
By Elodie Durand
Top Shelf Productions
There are so many horrors a human can face, and one of the worst, at least for me, comes from...
INDIE VIEW: THE GRANDE ODALISQUE is the best kind of art appropriation
The Grande Odalisque
By Jerome Mulot, Florent Ruppert, Bastien Vives
Translated by Montana Kane
Fantagraphics
The word “badass” has become tiresome in its overuse, and yet that’s the...
INDIE VIEW: AFTER THE RAIN uncovers the contradictions of terror
After The Rain
Written by Nnedi Okorafor and John Jennings
Illustrated by David Brame
Abrams Megascope
The first title in the much-anticipated Megascope imprint from Abrams Comics Arts,...
INDIE VIEW: Everyone should be a LUNATIC
Dan Mazur's LUNATIC is a good primer in how to view what’s outside of yourself and how to connect with it with an open mind, but on your own terms.
INDIE VIEW: The playful pathos of KUSAMA: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Kusama: The Graphic Novel
By Elisa Macellari
Laurence King Publishing
I have, in passing, encountered photos of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and when that happened, did wonder...
INDIE VIEW: Seeing through THE IMPENDING BLINDNESS OF BILLIE SCOTT
The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
By Zoe Thorogood
Avery Hill Publishing
Is it art without humanity? That’s probably an unanswerable question and certainly, plenty of arguments...
INDIE VIEW: PAUL AT HOME takes readers behind closed doors
Paul At Home
By Michel Rabagliati
Drawn and Quarterly
Quebecois cartoonist Michel Rabagliati has established a definite tone of the last couple decades that he’s produced his...
INDIE VIEW: The simple but not simplistic delights of PLANET PARADISE
Planet Paradise
By Jesse Lonergan
Image Comics
Sometimes little charmers sneak up on you.
These days, as I look through potential graphic novels to review, it feels like...
INDIE VIEW: Is PLUTOCRACY: CHRONICLES OF A GLOBAL MONOPOLY actually fiction?
Plutocracy: Chronicles of Global Monopoly
By Abraham Martinez
NBM
Human beings are imperfect creatures and it follows that their creations will be imperfect as well. Even the...
INDIE VIEW: The powerful smallness of VICTORY POINT
Victory Point
By Owen D. Pomery
Avery Hill
Most people live small lives. By that, I’m not referring to the importance of the lives, but rather the...
