Crowdfunding Watch: Secret Libraries, Reimagined Fairy Tales and Time Travel
This week's crowdfunding watch is brought to you by my childhood. I dreamed of living inside books or having them somehow magically become part...
Review: Growing up with ‘The Case of the Missing Men’
From the Hardy Boys to Scooby Doo to Blue Velvet and onward the trope of teens attempting to solve mysteries is a well-worn one...
‘My Favorite Thing Is Monsters’ wins PW Crtics Poll PLUS here are some of...
A couple of links of note from Publishers Weekly:
The annual Critics Poll results have been announced and to the shock of no one...
Review: ‘Beautiful Darkness’ team goes to Hell in ‘Satania’
There’s something delightfully old fashioned about Satania, at least at the beginning, and that nod to tradition is what makes the whole experience so...
Review: Marcelo D’Salete finds dignity in Brazil’s ugly history of slavery
Brazilian cartoonist Marcelo D’Salete offers a different view of slavery in Run For It, focusing on Brazilian plantations and slavery, and celebrating resistance in...
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...
