Review: The innocence of childhood is brief in David Small’s ‘Home After Dark’
David Small is old enough to remember the realities of a free-range childhood as the norm that is often romanticized by people my age....
Review: ‘Garlandia’ is a fully-formed and frantic fantasyland
On one hand, Garlandia has all the charm and intimacy of the characters from which it pulls obvious influence, the Moomins — the book...
Review: Civilization works against ‘A House In The Jungle’
In small-town situations, it can be a challenge to live as an outlier. You might be able to separate yourself from the general networking...
Review: ‘The Wolves of La Louviere’ portrays the slow pace of World War II...
Europe Comics has carved out an interesting niche by releasing French and Belgian comics in ebook format to make them more available and affordable,...
Review: Javi Rey’s ‘Out in the Open’ is a quiet, dark coming of age...
From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it...
Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness
In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the...
ADVANCE REVIEW: Revisiting Pepperland and Diving Beneath the Waves in our YELLOW SUBMARINE
Celebrating fifty years of the animated lever pullers with a new comic book adaptation from Bill Morrison!
Review: Jim Broadbent’s ‘Dull Margaret’ is dark humanity distilled to its essence
Less a linear story than an intense incantation filtered through a fever dream, Dull Margaret is the work of British actor Jim Broadbent, his debut...
Review – Where She Walks’ Incomplete Urban Fantasy
Where She Walks: A Canadian urban fantasy comic that's almost there
Review – Alexis Beauclair’s Vanishing Perspective is a Primer to Understanding Comics
Minimalistic comics to better understand comics!
Review: ‘Feast of Fields’ unleashes all the dimensions of emotion and memory at the...
Sean Karemaker created one of my favorite books of 2016, The Ghosts We Know, a dark autobiographical work that achieves a symbolic height as...
Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me...
