Review – Humour in a Post-Apocalyptic World in Aminder Dhaliwal’s Woman World
There's a moment in Aminder Dhaliwal's Woman World that encapsulate the tone and humour of her comics. Yumi, one of the survivors of this new...
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...
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...
Review: Looking past Mormon stereotypes in Noah Van Sciver’s ‘One Dirty Tree’
The Mormon ascent into wider cultural awareness has not been under the best circumstances. It’s involved revelations about the fringe of it with the...
Interview: Liana Finck is surprised she’s relatable, but she’s getting used to the idea
Since 2015 Liana Finck has been a rising star in her role as a New Yorker cartoonist thanks to her singular presentation and sensibility,...
Review: ‘Algeria Is Beautiful Like America’ and the complications of family lore
I’m going to admit to being embarrassingly ignorant on the subject of Algeria before reading Algeria Is Beautiful Like America, at best understanding the...
Graphic Novel TK Episode 17: Cover Design
Can you judge a book by its cover?
That's what cover designers aim for -- creating a cover so amazing that the people who would...
REVIEW: ‘Bastard’ features the world’s sweetest crime spree
In Bastard, Belgian cartoonist Max de Radigues presents one of the oddest crime partners you can imagine — mother and son. Well, not just...
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: ‘Retrograde Orbit’ celebrates the possibilities when all the planets align
British cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski makes her graphic novel debut with Retrograde Orbit, a sweet little meditation on upending roots and reclaiming them.
Flint’s family comes...
