By Crom! Conan Invades the Marvel Universe in Avengers: No Road Home
Fans of Marvel's weekly series Avengers: No Surrender will have something more to look forward to in its follow-up, Avengers: No Road Home. Conan...
GET A GRIP!: Ellen Forney reveals the healing power of ‘SMEDMERTS’ & talks ROCK...
"Feeling like you have a grip is feeling like you have the means to be flexible and figure our new things."
Review: The dark and charming topsy-turvy Paris of ‘Alas’
Anytime I encounter a story with animals dominating the world in an aggressive stance against primitive humans, I can’t help but compare it to...
Review: The thrilling darkness of Rachael Ball’s ‘Wolf’
Everyone knows about the wider mythologies that creep their way into childhood, everything from Bigfoot to Slender Man that infects young brains in a...
Review: Mortality from all sides in ‘In The Future, We Are Dead’
Death is a multi-faceted subject and German cartoonist Eva Müller’s In The Future We Are Dead gives it the treatment it deserves. Müller comes at...
Review: Different sides of empowerment in ‘Terrible Means’ and ‘A City Inside’
Terrible Means is a prequel to B. Mure’s Ismyre book from a couple years ago, but you don’t need to have read the previous...
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...
