INDIE VIEW: Russell, Pace, & Kirk’s SECOND COMING critiques religion with the same kindness...
Second Coming
Written by Mark Russell
Illustrated by Richard Pace and Leonard Kirk
Colored by Andy Troy
Lettered by Rob Steen
Covers illustrated by Amanda Conner
Ahoy Comics
“I wanted to show people something inside themselves worth believing in,” Jesus says...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Ballad of the Salty Sea’ offers solid, reliable Corto Maltese thrills
Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salty Sea
By Hugo Pratt
Translated by Dean Mullaney and Simone Castaldi
IDW/EuroComics
Though I had known about Corto Maltese for years, I had only ever sat down and read one of...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Familiar Face’ is a warped kaleidoscopic mirror to our own reality
Familiar Face
By Michael DeForge
Drawn and Quarterly
“The only constant is change.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus said that. I looked it up. Actually, I’m not quite clear that he said those exact words. I’m not sure that that’s...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Lupus’ is a science fiction epic of the human heart
Lupus
By Frederik Peeters
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Top Shelf Productions
It’s hard to believe that is was nearly two decades ago that Swiss cartoonist Frederik Peeters made a splash with Blue Pills, a memoir about his HIV...
INDIE VIEW: ‘River: Stories of Old Anapra’ has an impact bigger than its page...
River: Stories of Old Anapra
By Dave Ortega
Radiator Comics
Dave Ortega has already proven his ability to transform family history into compelling and tender comics with his regular title Dias De Consuelo, which covers the story...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Becoming Horses’ is a wander through the creative ether
Becoming Horses
By Disa Wallander
Drawn and Quarterly
Creativity is different for everyone, and what commonalities there are get mixed in with points of departure so that any two given processes — in thought and in physical...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Phantom Twin’ mixes solid sideshow scholarship with melodrama
The Phantom Twin
By Lisa Brown
First Second Books
Last year’s insightful biography of Schlitzie the Pinhead, Nobody’s Fool by Bill Griffith, gave me a reason to write a little bit about one of my lifelong interests,...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Golden Age’ is a lush fantasy of resistance
The Golden Age Book One
Written by Roxanne Moreil and Cyril Pedrosa
Illustrated by Cyril Pedrosa
First Second Books
When King Ronan of Antrevers dies, his daughter Tilda imagines herself to be his heir, and as events move...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Banned Book Club’ is an energetic college kids versus dictatorship memoir
Banned Book Club
Written by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada
Illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju
Iron Circus Comics
With North Korea so much in the headlines and such a point of fascination for Americans, Kim Hyun Sook’s Banned...
INDIE VIEW: In ‘750cc Down Lincoln Highway’ the soul hits the pavement
750cc Down Lincoln Highway
Written by Bernard Chambaz
Illustrated by Barroux
Lettered by Ortho
Translated by Joe Johnston
NBM
I’m going to confess that as someone who barely leaves his region of the country anymore — the northeast, FYI...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Colony’ reveals obscure anarchist history
The Colony
By Nicolas Debon
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Europe Comics
Based on the rise and fall of an actual anarchist outpost in France in the early 20th Century, Nicolas Debon’s The Colony channels the inspiration required in...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Man Without Talent’ throws a profound pity party
The Man Without Talent
By Yoshiharu Tsuge
Translated by Ryan Holmberg
New York Review Comics
The Man Without Talent is not exactly an autobiography, but as revealed in translator Ryan Holmberg’s essay, it contains portions of nearly exact...
