Review: Mis(h)adra offers profound insight into living with epilepsy
If you’re anything like me, you might know little to nothing about epilepsy, let alone what a seizure is like as either...
A Year of Free Comics: read the complete Black #1 right now
The collected edition of Black is out this week
Review: B. Mure’s ‘Ismyre’ is a city of magic
Titled after the city it depicts, Ismyre couples two disparate issues and brings them together for a magical conclusion.
Ed is a sculptor living in...
Review: ‘A Castle In England’ gives new life to old lives
A Castle In England is the latest in multi-faceted explorations of the history behind single structures, having been preceded by Chris Ware’s Building Stories,...
Review: The other realms of epilepsy revealed in ‘Mis(h)adra’
Mis(h)adra is a hard work to criticize, largely because it’s so personal and so raw in its portrayal of the intimate. Iasmin Omar Ata...
Review: Johnny Appleseed and the Apocalyptic Frontier
Johnny Appleseed is one of those American historical figures who calls into question the line that divides reality from fantasy. He seems like a...
Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’
This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have...
Review: Ulli Lust’s ‘Voices In The Dark’ is a walk on the worst side
The offerings from New York Review Comics have revealed one challenging work after another with curation of truly elevated works, but as impressive as...
A Swedish Manga About Two Kittens
Mjau! is a Swedish mange about two kittens written and drawn by Natalia Batiste. There's a Kickstarter going on to fund the English language...
Review: ‘Jam In The Band’ depicts aging as an artistic process
At its most basic Jam In The Band is a pretty insightful and — just from my small knowledge on the subject — a...
Review: Looking for truth in ‘Crawl Space’
I have a feeling that quite a lot of us would rather be somewhere else these days. It wouldn’t be so bad to be...
Review: Yeon-Sik Hong understands that happiness isn’t supposed to be comfortable
There are going to be a number of American readers who see themselves in Korean cartoonist Yeon-Sik Hong’s Uncomfortably Happy, especially creative people and...
