ELCAF Previews Night: Robert Ball’s ‘Dark Times’
Responsible for some of last year's most visually arresting comics in the form of Winter's Knight: Year One, Robert Ball's next project is going...
Comic Arts Brooklyn announces date with bonus City of Glass video
It's not too soon to start planning: Comic Arts Brooklyn has just announced its 2014 dates: November 8th Mt. Carmel church and a few...
Review: The Nonadult Delight of Miss Hennipin
The idea for Miss Hennipin, a new release from Sonatina's Andy Douglas Day, began as a summer day's unassuming illustrative dalliance and briskly developed...
The Aesthetic Hybridity of Fumio Obata’s ‘Just So Happens’
Just So Happens
By Fumio Obata
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Upon first impression of Fumio Obata's new graphic novel, Just So Happens, I was struck...
Mike Taylor: NO/FUTURE
“Culture seeks narrators and fiction is a narrative prerogative.”
This quote is supplemented above a two image spread, each featuring brushstrokes of a blackened sea...
What should you buy from the PictureBox sale? A few recommendations
While the art comix world is still reeling from the announcement of the closure of PictureBox, the innovative and fearless publisher that picked up...
PictureBox shutting down on December 31st
Dan Nadel's art comix publishing company PictureBox will shut down on December 31st, he announced on his tumblr, while also announcing a 50% off sale which everyone should hop on like white on rice:
Frontier Magazine announces new issues devoted to Ping Zhu and Sam Alden
Youth In Decline's Frontier Magazine has become an impressive little art magazine showcasing various comics notables. The first two issues spotlighted Uno Morales and...
Thought Bubble 2013: A Reading List in Review!
This isn't a convention write-up. Instead, it's a review roundup of every new comic I came across at Thought Bubble 2013. Because I want...
Review: Gut Feelings By Leah Wishnia
On the surface, Leah Wishnia's anthology GUT FEELINGS visually reads as a tornado of frenetic and (at times) grotesque imagery, brimming with a stream...
Special Beat Investigation: Comics Critics Crisis!!!
A few months ago there was a Kerfuffle over a comics which some indie comics enthusiasts thought was artistically exciting, while others couldn't see that for all the racism in these comics. I wrote about it at the time, and wondered if indie comics—so lively and vibrant—were actually being given a larger social context.







