INDIE VIEW: Making new lives in ‘Walking Uphill’ and ‘Rose’
Rose: A Double Life
Written by Denis Lapière and Émilie Alibert
Illustrated by Valérie Vernay
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Europe Comics
The first of a trilogy of...
INDIE VIEW: ‘How I Tried To Be A Good Person’ and the dangers of...
How I Tried to Be a Good Person
By Ulli Lust
Fantagraphics Books
Some things just seem like bad ideas, like they are inevitably going to head...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Wage Slaves’ and ‘The Pineapples of Wrath’ are both about finding justice,...
The Pineapples of Wrath
By Cathon
Pow Pow Press
Taking place in the imaginary Hawaiian Quarter of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, cartoonist Cathon wraps two apparent enthusiasms — Tiki...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Hot Comb’ tells masterful stories about hair and race
Hot Comb
By Ebony Flowers
Drawn and Quarterly
In Hot Comb, cartoonist Ebony Flowers ushers me into a world I have no experience with and probably will...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Temple of Silence’ uncovers Herbert Crowley and the Wigglemuch
Justin Duerr discovers real comics history.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Rough Age’ captures a time most of us want to forget
Rough Age
by Max de Radiguès
One Percent Press
I remember seeing the movie Gregory’s Girl in high school and enjoying it fine, but also being a...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Falling Star’ is a real Satanic Bible via Jack Kirby
The Falling Star Volume 1
By Jon Hammond
Hypatia Press
When I was young, I had questions about God. They seemed to me questions anyone would ask...
INDIE VIEW: Love brings change in ‘Alay-Oop’ and ‘The Healing Island’
Alay-Oop
By William Gropper
New York Review Comics
William Gropper’s 1930 graphic novel Alay-Oop predates its actual form — “graphic novel” — by decades, but as a...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Anastasia’ turns the misogyny of film history into a lurid fable
Anastasia is a Lynchian story of early Hollywood.
INDIE VIEW: Rebecca Fox reveals ‘How To Be Reasonable’ and we really need that
'How To Be Reasonable' is the How-To book for the 21st Century.
INDIE VIEW: ‘I Was Their American Dream’ celebrates the immigrant experience as crucial to...
I Was Their American Dream
By Malaka Gharib
Clarkson Potter
In I Was Their American Dream, cartoonist Malaka Gharib displays an infectious enthusiasm for openness as she...
INDIE VIEW: ‘They Called Us Enemy’ lays out the history we’re doomed to repeat
John Seven reviews 'They Called Us Enemy'
