Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here
The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get...
Review: Nick Drnaso’s ‘Sabrina’ won’t stop haunting me
The concept of fake news existed long before Trump, and conspiracy theorists have also, but one difference between now and even a decade ago...
Review: Manuele Fior’s ‘Blackbird Days’ examines the mechanics of transformation
Blackbird Days, an anthology of shorter work by Italian graphic novelist Manuele Fior, gathers stories from the past decade, but this is no casual...
Review: Cyril Pedrosa’s stunning vision of ‘Portugal’
In America, extended families that are defined by alienation seem to be the result of dysfunction more than anything else, but I’ve found that...
Review: The Bursting Beauty of Niki de Saint Phalle
When the biographies of so many celebrated male artists are revealed as chronicles self-destruction where the subjects too often allow themselves to become awash...
Review: ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ not hard to enjoy
The Angouleme-winning Monsieur Jean series by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian is celebrated here with It Don’t Come Easy, a collection of some of...
Review: Reid Psaltis explores the Human/Animal Divide in ‘Kingdom/Order’
A silent, surreal meditation on the human condition in context of the natural world, Kingdom/Order takes as its hero an unnamed man in an...
Review: ‘I, Parrot’ advocates finding your own voice
On the surface, I, Parrot is a madcap farce about taking care of 42 parrots as it snowballs into absurdity on almost a surreal...
Review: ‘It’s Cold In The River At Night’ presents love as an unknown country
Strangers in an unnamed European rural area, Carl and Rita have moved into a house on stilts in the water, the last of its...
Review: Making sense of Mauretania in ‘The New World’
Subtitled “Comics from Mauretania,” the stories in Chris Reynolds’ The New World don’t take place in the African country of the same name, but...
Review: Eric Haven’s comics bring madness and sanity together for a hug
Eric Haven’s new collection of short works, Compulsive Comics, offers good laughs and vigorous surrealism, and you can easily enjoy it for those two...
Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection
Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French...
