INDIE VIEW: ‘Floppy #1’ and ‘Desolation Bay’ tell different kinds of histories
Two Massachusetts cartoonists put intellectual and poetic heft into their comics.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Tonta’ refuses to be bogged down by the past
Locas creator Jaime Hernandez highlights one of his youngest cast members.
INDIE VIEW: Abouet’s ‘Akissi’ books gleefully barrel through boundaries
Autobiographical comics for kids like you've never seen before
INDIE VIEW: ‘Silver Wire’ and ‘The American Dream’ search for meaning in history
Kriota Willberg and Shing Yin Khor examine the remnants of the past that sit silently in the present.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Paper Peril” playfully explores the artistic pathway
French cartoonist Jean-Baptiste Bourgois shows simplicity and complexity need each other.
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Empress Cixtisis’ and ‘Aion’ enter strange lands
Aion creeps along in its suspense and The Empress Cixtisi explores court intrigue.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Irena’ gives a Polish World War II hero the tribute she deserves
The bravery of Irena Sendlerowa gets an intoxicating, invigorating graphic novel treatment
INDIE VIEW: ‘King of King Court’ celebrates the power of telling your own story
This dysfunctional family memoir is a triumph of resilience
INDIE VIEW: ‘Old Souls’ shows reincarnation as problematic
Old Souls
Written by Brian McDonald
Illustrate by Les McLaine
First Second
I think the reason I never warmed up to the idea of reincarnation as a spiritual belief worth having — and I say that with the...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Shanghai Dream’ magnifies a corner of World War II history
Shanghai Dream
Written by Philippe Thirault
Illustrated by Jorge Miguel
Translated by Mark Bence
Humanoids/ Life Drawn
Portrayals of the Holocaust have found their way into multiple comics forms, but almost always they focus on the Europe. One...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Lady Doctor’ demystifies the medical world
The Lady Doctor
By Ian Williams
Pennsylvania State University Press
Ian Williams has made a name for himself in the Graphic Medicine movement as an advocate for the form, but its in his graphic novels that he...
INDIE VIEW: Baltic publisher kuš! still pushes the boundaries of comics
The Latvian comics publisher kuš! has been incredibly successful at getting its message out there since its creation in 2007. It doesn’t just focus on Latvian work, but gathers creators from an international pool...
