Review: In ‘Fluorescent Mud’ and ‘John, Dear’ it’s not all in the characters’ heads
Two new books from Retrofit/Big Planet use the comics form to meditate on the psychological overtaking the physical, both with strong executions in different styles.
Reading Eli Howey’s Fluorescent Mud is like wandering through someone...
Review: Brotherhood as artistic evolution in ‘Piero’
Edmond Baudoin is a relatively obscure figure in America, looming under whatever radar we have that detects French cartoonists. As explained in Matt Madden’s excellent introduction to Piero — Madden also did the translation...
11/01/2018 Small Press & Indie Comics News Galore: Priya Huq, Breakdown and More
Monthly list of small press and indie comics for the month of October
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 technology has progressed, some form of virtual reality alternative to...
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 are the only creature that has willfully left it behind...
THE PULSE: Crime and Science Primates Found in New Releases for October 24th, 2018
The 90s get a makeover and indie creatives are skewed in this week's new releases. Also: so, so, so much more.
The Last Puerto Rican Unleashes his Wrath in new webcomic Hush Papi
In new webcomic Hush Papi, the last Puerto Rican avenges the decimation of his island in a post-apocalyptic future.
Ahoy! The Wrong Earth #2 is going back to press
Many "second printing" PR emails are sent out, and many can be ignored, but once in a while one really does say something. Such is the news that Ahoy Comics' The Wrong Earth #2...
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 abduction of Elizabeth Smart and reality television shows that mostly...
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 basic colonial relationship it had with France, and the continued...
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 mother and son, that’s not in itself odd, I guess,...
Eric Powell to Publish New GOON Comic in 2019
A signing tour and other activities are in the works to mark Goon’s 20th anniversary next year.
