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...
Review: German guilt and the nature of mundane evil in ‘Belonging’
What is it like to be of the most despised nationality in modern history? I’m not talking about being an American, though it’s not...
NYCC 2018 Event Guide: Signings and meet-ups and art and more!
Whether it's a signing, an art show, a panel about comics - or just enjoying Happy Hour - we got you covered.
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...
