Review: A life unfolds through cassette tapes in ‘All the Sad Songs’
Cassette tapes are one of those things. I don’t know if people who didn’t live decades of their life with cassette tapes as part of them can really gather what they mean to people...
Tom Scioli Teases a ‘Grand Design’-esque FANTASTIC FOUR Project
The pitch images tease the origin of Galactus as presented by Scioli.
Review: Fear of a white planet in ‘The Danes’
In The Danes, Belgian cartoonist Clarke’s suspense-thriller with science fiction tones, takes an accepted apocalyptic trope, a devastating pandemic, and turns it upside down. In most stories like these society collapses because of a...
Review: ‘Feast of Fields’ unleashes all the dimensions of emotion and memory at the...
Sean Karemaker created one of my favorite books of 2016, The Ghosts We Know, a dark autobiographical work that achieves a symbolic height as the psychological crashes into the recollections to create some otherworldly...
08/01/2018 Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
Small Press & Indie Comics Galore: Recapping news, comics, reviews and other items of interest from the last month
Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me parse the topic any better. I can understand if you...
Review: Catherine Meurisse offers raw honesty about the Charlie Hebdo massacre
So dire has the world situation been, even on the smallest levels, that the massacre of the Charlie Hebdo staff seems like it happened at least a decade ago. But it’s only been three-and-a-half...
Review: Aaron Costain’s ‘Entropy’ suggests there might be too much to think about
Aaron Costain’s Entropy is the type of book that begs you to never give up on it. It’s built into the story itself, which follows a humanoid’s journey through a surrealistic fable as it...
‘Summer’ A Comic for the Instagram Generation
Summer, a comic about being young and in love, offers a fresh and inventive take on storytelling using the social media platform, Instagram.
Review: Weegee biography captures the big picture
Let it be said upfront that in this more enlightened time, legendary photograph Weegee is not the kind of person that is given a lot of sympathy. He is, to put it in current...
Crowdfunding Watch: Independent Spirits, Witches, and Bards
Celebrate independence with characters who buck the status quo in this week's Crowdfunding Watch.
Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here
The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get older and realize that the lives of most people who...
