01/06/17: Small Press and Indie Comics News Galore
§ Hi everyone, Philippe here with some micro press, small press and indie comics links and news.
§ Nice art: The above image is from Xia...
How a comics marriage broke up over financial stress
Just to stay on this cheerful topic while everyone is so happy to be back at work after the holiday, Maggie Umber, cartoonist and...
Anders Nilsen new book Tongues looks spectacular
Anders Nilsen has been a mainstay of the indie comics world for a while, gaining huge acclaim with Big Questions, a massive rumination on the meaning...
Koyama Press’s Fall line-up includes Willumsen, Kyle, Lee, Freibert, GG and Foster-Dimino
Catching up a bit here on the news, and Koyama Press announced their fall line-up filled with work by some of today's most exciting...
Review: ‘The Interview’ examines the nature of meaning
I write a lot about contemporary art, and one of the areas that I find so many people get hung-up about is meaning. That...
Review: Cathy Malkasian’s latest dark parable ‘Eartha’
You’re not likely to come out of a Cathy Malkasian book without being spooked by something you can’t quite put your finger on even...
Reviews: Two dark underbellies come out in daylight
Kus Mono #3: An Exorcism by Theo Ellsworth
An Exorcism begins simply enough with a man lying in a bed that is walking away, escorted...
Review: You’ve got to fight for your right to make art!
Though it’s tempting to pronounce the atmosphere in James Albon’s Her Bark And Her Bite as retro or even nostalgic, timeless might be the...
Review: Max Andersson unpacks a family nightmare in ‘The Excavation’
Underneath the surreal nightmare presented by Swedish cartoonist Max Andersson and despite the dream logic to so much of the action in The Excavation, there’s a...
Review: Ley Lines #9: Enter, Holy Pilgrim – Laila Milevski’s Uncertain Spiritual Quest
In 2008, I attempted the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostella. I'm not a particularly religious or spiritual person so the draw was in the...
Review: Emil Ferris beckons the monsters into the light of day
It’s fair to say that Emil Ferris’ sprawling My Favorite Thing Is Monsters — volume one of a two volume work — came out...
A year of free comics – Mickey Zacchilli’s Space Academy 123
Mickey Zacchilli has been doing a daily comics trip called Space Academy 123 on Instagram for the past couple of weeks and it is fantastic...
