Review: Missing the mark on magic realism, but doing well with realism itself
Looking at the effects of trauma as a long term property that you find visible bursts of in the short term, The Return Of...
Review: 5 comics that grabbed my attention this week
Our Mother by Luke Howard
Comics has become the territory of many examinations of mental health in regard to personal history, and each manifestation of this...
Review: Evie Wyld’s transformative fear in Everything is Teeth
This mesmerizing and beautifully weird memoir has novelist Evie Wyld going over her childhood years through the lens of extreme, irrational fear, tracing its beginnings...
Review: Turning the mirror on journalism
Having worked as a journalist since the late 1990s, I have found that most people have no clue about how news organizations work, which...
Review: Sophie Goldstein’s progressive science fiction
House of Women and The Oven by Sophie Goldstein
I haven’t encountered much chatter about Sophie Goldstein’s extraordinary, smart, beautiful three-part comic House of Women,...
The Bestselling-ist Graphic Novel in the United States Celebrates 45 Years!
Sesame Street, via Facebook, posted the above animated GIF to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the publication of "The Monster at the End of...
Amazon names Best Graphic Novels of 2016
The end of year lists are coming - Amazon has selected 20 books in an unranked order - no big surprises, all highly praised books....
Review: Comics don’t come more gentle than ‘Mooncop’
Some dreams never turn out quite like you hope they will, and when they all come crashing down, things are going to change. Many...
Review: Guy Colwell looks at the subtle side of control
Human beings have, historically, revealed a vigorous capacity for steering other human beings away from the way they are currently living into a more...
Review: Uncivilized Books demands more of its readers
Houses Of The Holy by Caitlin Skaalrud
Caitlin Skaalrud’s Houses Of The Holy is, on its a surface, a psychedelic and psychological journey through the...
Insight Comics launches in 2017 with MFK, Die Hard, X-Com and more
Last month, Insight Editions announced a new graphic novel imprint, and how, courtesy of Publishers Weekly, we have more details:
Insight Editions, best known for...
Because YOU demanded it! The Best Graphic Novels of All Time?
Is there a comics canon? Do we want a comics canon? Do we need a comics canon?
