INTERVIEW: Alexis Deacon talks Celtic myths and “inescapable fates” in GEIS
"There’s no way of escaping it. Often in the stories the more things they do to get away, the quicker they bring the events about."
Review: Seitchik’s ‘Exits’ offers invisibility as the beginning of transformation
In Exits, Daryl Seitchik takes a fairly obvious, well-worn bit of symbolism and manages to make the readers’ familiarity with it into one of...
Review: Leela Corman connects the emotional and intellectual dots
Leela Corman’s work is a lot of things in We All Wish For Deadly Force. Whether using vivid, thick colors or more simple black...
Review: Rabagliati’s ‘Paul’ books remain the most insightful comics about males ever
Michel Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical Paul character is one of the delights of modern comics, with each volume seamless in mixing sweet charm with a sadness...
Review: Frontier #12 – Kelly Kwang and “The Expanded Mind”
I browsed online to find good images for the top of this article. I wrote the first draft of this article on Notepad on my...
Review: The Fun Family is less fun than you think it is and that’s...
Benjamin Frisch’s The Fun Family is one of those works that you think you know what it is about, but you don’t really. That’s...
Reviews: Three mini comics that deserve your attention today
Ley Lines: Made With Love In Hell by Mimi Chrzanowski
From it’s dayglo pink cover, through all its cranberry-red rendered interior, this portrait of a...
Alternative Announces Fall line with Van Sciver, Henderson, Eng and more
Alternative Comics has announced several books, including imprints Study Group Comics and Floating World Comics, all distributed by Consortium. They're also offering 15 recently...
Review: Aidan Koch and Paloma Dawkins look inward and far out
After Nothing Comes by Aidan Koch
This collection from Koyama Press of Koch’s early mini comics speaks to what makes Koch stand out. With an...
Review: Sean Karemaker’s autobio comics are intense and poetic
It’s not a visibly large book, about average looking at a glance, but Sean Karemaker’s The Ghosts We Know is more dense than most...
Review: ‘Ohio Is For Sale’ – Hilarious Slacker Comedy or Sisyphean Nightmare?
Settling in on the lives of three slacker type funny animals, Trevor, Patrick and Leonard — I thought it was two dogs and a...
You have only a few short hours to pre-order Short Box 2
Pre-orders for the second edition of Short Box, the box of exclusive comics and swag curated by Zainab Akhtar (with some logistical help from...
