INDIE VIEW: A gentle push into politics in OKAY, UNIVERSE
Okay, Universe
Written by Valérie Plante
Illustrated by Delphie Côté-Lacroix
Drawn and Quarterly
With the subtitle “Chronicles of a Woman in Politics,” Okay, Universe in some ways inspires...
INDIE VIEW: THOREAU AND ME talks through the end of the world
Thoreau and Me
By Cedric Taling
SelfMadeHero
If you want to feel angsty, we’re at a point in history when you can take your pick of disastrous...
INDIE VIEW: Life is filled with THE CONTRADICTIONS
The Contradictions
By Sophie Yanow
Drawn and Quarterly
For the past decade or so I’ve noticed a shift where the colloquial word styles of young people had...
INDIE VIEW: THE FLOOD THAT DID COME came just at the right time
The Flood That Did Come
By Patrick Wray
Avery Hill
In the ongoing quest to allow your brain to qualify a new thing you encounter by matching...
INDIE VIEW: Is there safety in WOODS?
Woods
By Mike Freiheit
Birdcage Bottom Books
The times, they aren’t so great. You’re either living in terror of a corrupt, fascist president and pandemic that’s shut...
INDIE VIEW: Detecting the INVISIBLE DIFFERENCES
Invisible Differences
Story by Julie Dachez and Fabienne Vaslet
Adaptation and art by Mademoiselle Caroline
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Oni Press
Over the past several years I feel like...
INDIE VIEW: VISION can be deceiving
Vision
By Julia Gfrörer
Fantagraphics
This latest release from New Hampshire-based cartoonist Julia Gfrörer's Vision hearkens back to novels of romance and darkness like Jane Eyre and...
INDIE VIEW: SUMMER SPIRIT is a harbinger of change
Summer Spirit
By Elizabeth Holleville
Translated by Amy Evans-Hill
NoBrow Press
Over the past decade or so, ghosts have really become a staple in comics aimed at girl...
INDIE VIEW: You can’t avoid THE UNKNOWN
The Unknown
By Anna Sommer
Translated by Helge Dascher
Conundrum Press
There are many ways that people allow themselves to become victims of what they believe is fate...
INDIE VIEW: Gipi proposes ONE STORY for us all
One Story
By Gipi
Translated by Jamie Richards
Fantagraphics
How many old folks out there? I mean at least in your 50s. Have you ever had a conversation...
INDIE VIEW: In THE MARCHENOIR LIBRARY less is infinitely more
The Marchenoir Library
By A. Degen
Secret Acres
The Marchenoir Library is an unusual graphic novel in that its story is not linear in a typical way...
INDIE VIEW: LANGOSH AND PEPPI FUGITIVE DAYS wanders through the Post-Soviet maze
Langosh and Peppi: Fugitive Days
By Veronica Post
Conundrum Press
There’s an allure to former Iron Curtain countries that is hard to put into words, but it...
