Review: The skewed colors of manhood in ‘Tumult’
The noir genre has one dynamic at its center that repeats so often it’s hard to tell if it’s a cliche or an archetype...
Review: German guilt and the nature of mundane evil in ‘Belonging’
What is it like to be of the most despised nationality in modern history? I’m not talking about being an American, though it’s not...
NYCC 2018 Event Guide: Signings and meet-ups and art and more!
Whether it's a signing, an art show, a panel about comics - or just enjoying Happy Hour - we got you covered.
Review: ‘Bald Knobber’ combines simple history with complicated family lives
The title of Robert Sergel’s Bald Knobber isn’t just a silly word juxtaposition but actually refers to a historical group of vigilantes from the late...
Review: Liana Finck’s ‘Passing For Human’ gets to the core of all of us
One of the things I like best about Liana Finck is her ability to not only be the only thing like her in comics...
Review: The innocence of childhood is brief in David Small’s ‘Home After Dark’
David Small is old enough to remember the realities of a free-range childhood as the norm that is often romanticized by people my age....
Review: ‘Garlandia’ is a fully-formed and frantic fantasyland
On one hand, Garlandia has all the charm and intimacy of the characters from which it pulls obvious influence, the Moomins — the book...
Review: Javi Rey’s ‘Out in the Open’ is a quiet, dark coming of age...
From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it...
Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness
In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the...
Review: ‘Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles’ offers heartbreaking tenderness within the satire
If you had told me as recently as a year ago that I would be in love with a comic about Snagglepuss not due...
Phoebe Gleockner is the Guest Editor of this year’s BEST AMERICAN COMICS; Lale Westvind...
Acclaimed cartoonist Gloeckner is the guest editor on this year's collection.
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...
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