INDIE VIEW: ‘Little Mama’ is a distressing portrayal of abuse
Little Mama
By Halim Mahmouidi
Lion Forge
Is there another graphic novel as uncomfortable to read as Little Mama? Probably so, but one doesn’t currently come to mind, and that’s probably my brain going into self-defense mode....
INDIE VIEW: ‘Tales From Behind the Window’ exposes historical misogyny
Tales From Behind the Window
By Edanur Kuntman
Europe Comics
Brooklyn-based game designer and animator Edanur Kuntman sat down with her grandmother Sureyya for a series of interviews near the end of her grandmother’s life as part...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Rat Time’ and motherhood
Rat Time
By Keiler Roberts
Koyama Press
Cartoonist Keiler Roberts has a very freeform approach to diary comics. As in free from the form of diary comics. As collected in Rat Time, there is no sense of...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Persephone’s Garden’ maps out love, loss, and the passing of time
Persephone's Garden
By Glynnis Fawkes
Secret Acres
Making its debut at SPX this year, Glynnis Fawkes names this collection of diary comics that were created over a seven year span of her life after a garden that...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Blood and Drugs’ aren’t the whole person
Lance Ward's visceral comic about addiction and redemption
INDIE VIEW: ‘Martin Peters’ plays with the facts
Martin Peters
By Patrick Allaby
Conundrum Press
Have you ever had a conversation with a friend where you and the friend trade stories about your teenage years? Have they ever included long narratives tracing your experience with...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Taxi! Stories From the Back Seat’ savors life’s in-between moments
Taxi! Stories From the Back Seat
By Aimee de Jongh
Conundrum Press
The inside of a taxi is a strange space, in that for one person it is familiar because that person occupies it for long periods...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Tenderness of Stones’ portrays the harshness of loss
Marion Fayolle's storybook of dark emotions
INDIE VIEW: ‘Simon & Louise’ and the inevitable farce of teenage romance
Max de Radiguès traces the roots of romantic confusion to their beginnings
INDIE VIEW: ‘Expelling My Truth’ and ‘Stay’ demonstrate how to cope
Two different takes on how to cope.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Sky in Stereo’ clears the disarray of mental illness
Mardou takes unexpected paths in depicting struggle and healing
INDIE VIEW: ‘No Ivy League’ mixes displacement and kindness
Memoir of a homeschooler meeting the outside world asks the big questions.
