INDIE VIEW: WINDOWS ON THE WORLD offers a view of America’s invisible people
Windows on the World
Written by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson
Illustrated by Jon Sack
Fantagraphics
In many ways there’s never been a beginning and America has...
INDIE VIEW: BIX blends jazz and despair
Bix
By Scott Chantler
Gallery 13
Among the jazz musicians who have endured to be placed in that form of legendary status that transcends the community of...
INDIE VIEW: THE DAUGHTERS OF YS invigorates Breton folklore
The Daughters of Ys
Written by M.T. Anderson
Illustrated by Jo Rioux
First Second Books
The city of Ys is part of Breton folklore that may be familiar...
INDIE VIEW: I KNOW YOU RIDER explores reproducing and not
I Know You Rider
By Leslie Stein
Drawn and Quarterly
One of the aspects of Leslie Stein’s work that sets her apart from other autobiographical cartoonists is...
INDIE VIEW: A GIFT FOR A GHOST is ethereal poetry
A Gift For A Ghost
By Borja Gonzalez
Translated by Lee Douglas
Abrams
From the moment I finished A Gift For A Ghost I knew it was different...
INDIE VIEW: PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK is a soused nightmare of absurd cruelty
Portrait of a Drunk
By Olivier Schrauwen, Florent Ruppert, and Jérôme Mulot
Fantagraphics
Like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel gone horribly wrong, Portrait of a Drunk dives...
INDIE VIEW: THE THIRD POPULATION demystifies mental healthcare
The Third Population
Written by Aurélien Ducoudray
Illustrated by Jeff Pourquié
Translated by Kendra Boileau
Penn State University Press Graphic Medicine
In my experience, most comics that tackle the...
INDIE VIEW: GERARD is maximum Depardieu
Gerard: Five Years with Depardieu
By Mathieu Sapin
Europe Comics
Is there an American equivalent for Gerard Depardieu? For sure there are men who equal him in...
INDIE VIEW: Reality crumbles in THE ROUGH PEARL
The Rough Pearl
By Kevin Mutch
Fantagraphics
If you look at the natural world as structured through a multitude of power struggles, one thing leaps out at...
INDIE VIEW: In ALTITUDE growing up happens in dangerous terrain
Altitude
Written by Olivier Bocquet
Written and Illustrated by Jean-Marc Rochette
Translated by Edward Gauvin
SelfMadeHero
I was recently standing at a local landmark called Witt’s Ledge, the cliff...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Not a Place to Visit’ asserts that we are the world
Not a Place to Visit
By T. Edward Bak
Floating World Comics
It’s one of those fortuitous intellectual coincidences that I sat down to read and review...
INDIE VIEW: The ART LIFE revealed
Art Life
By Catherine Ocelot
Translated by Aleshia Jensen
Conundrum Press
Catherine Ocelot is trying to figure things out. You could say that about anyone, of course, but...
