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...
Review: ‘Song of Aglaia’ puts a complicated, heady feminist spin on tired old myths...
Taking the traditional tropes of myths and legends and turning them on their heads, Song of Aglaia has French cartoonist Anne Simon trace the fairy...
Crowdfunding Watch: Carpet Merchants, Barbarous Landlords and Crime-Fighting Bards
We take a look at three gorgeously fun crowdfunding projects featuring: The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Barbarous, and No Holds Bard.
Review: Manuele Fior’s ‘Blackbird Days’ examines the mechanics of transformation
Blackbird Days, an anthology of shorter work by Italian graphic novelist Manuele Fior, gathers stories from the past decade, but this is no casual...
Graphic Novel TK Episode 8: The Contract
Episode 8: The Contract
It's contracts time!
But what does that mean? What's involved in the process of coming to an agreement with a publisher? What...
Review: ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ not hard to enjoy
The Angouleme-winning Monsieur Jean series by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian is celebrated here with It Don’t Come Easy, a collection of some of...
