Review: In ‘Fluorescent Mud’ and ‘John, Dear’ it’s not all in the characters’ heads
Two new books from Retrofit/Big Planet use the comics form to meditate on the psychological overtaking the physical, both with strong executions in different...
Review: Music as markers in ‘I Am Young’
Through the years, one thing that has consistently figured into the teenage remembrances of people I’ve known is music. We might have had completely...
GET A GRIP!: When You’re in Pain, how do you Separate Good Advice &...
GET A GRIP! is a column dedicated to exploring all the health issues that keep us from making comics in all its forms. Sure, musculoskeletal...
Review: Brotherhood as artistic evolution in ‘Piero’
Edmond Baudoin is a relatively obscure figure in America, looming under whatever radar we have that detects French cartoonists. As explained in Matt Madden’s...
Review: Technology as the agent of change, good or bad, in ‘I Feel Machine’
In some ways aiming to be the Black Mirror of graphic anthologies, I Feel Machine features six cartoonists each exploring the intersection between humanity...
Review: Humane and horrifying, ‘Zenobia’ gets to the heart of human indignity
This beautifully-wrought and completely devastating Danish graphic novel will probably make you angry. Or at least it should make you angry. Most possibly it’s...
Review: Folk horror meets social satire in ‘Lip Hook’
Lip Hook takes some of the best conventions of the British folk horror genre and uses them to perfect effect. Outsiders becoming stranded in...
GET A GRIP!: How Experimenting with with Different Stylus Grips Can Keep Your ...
GET A GRIP! is a column dedicated to exploring all the health issues that keep us from making comics in all its forms. Sure, musculoskeletal...
Review: As ‘Alt-Life’ shows, even limitless virtual pleasure has its downsides
Human beings have always wanted to believe in a re-set. In more traditional terms this has taken the form of an afterlife, but as...
Review: ‘270°’ and ‘To Build A Fire’ honor different aspects of nature in beautiful...
Is nature our friend or our enemy, or maybe a little of both? Perhaps it’s not even measurable against the human experience, since we...
GET A GRIP!: Keeping Equilibrium in Your Creative Practice
GET A GRIP! is a column dedicated to exploring all the health issues that keep us from making comics in all its forms. Sure, musculoskeletal...
Review: The skewed colors of manhood in ‘Tumult’
The noir genre has one dynamic at its center that repeats so often it’s hard to tell if it’s a cliche or an archetype...
