Review: Anneli Furmark’s drama of Swedish winter, politics, and family dynamics
That the personal is political is acknowledged by plenty, but seldom in the way, it’s portrayed in Red Winter.
Taking place in 1970s Sweden as the Social Democrats find themselves on the wane, Anneli Furmark...
Review: Deacon’s ‘Geis’ series depicts the human condition as a magical castle battle
In the fantasy series Geis, the European fantasy tropes are given a run for their money in a sort of It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World style parable of power and authority, by...
Review: Growing up with ‘The Case of the Missing Men’
From the Hardy Boys to Scooby Doo to Blue Velvet and onward the trope of teens attempting to solve mysteries is a well-worn one and not likely to go anywhere. There’s something about pesky...
Review: Johnny Appleseed and the Apocalyptic Frontier
Johnny Appleseed is one of those American historical figures who calls into question the line that divides reality from fantasy. He seems like a myth, and certainly,the way he has been presented in the...
Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’
This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have some bond between them that seems to be melding who...
Review: Ulli Lust’s ‘Voices In The Dark’ is a walk on the worst side
The offerings from New York Review Comics have revealed one challenging work after another with curation of truly elevated works, but as impressive as they have all been, I don’t think any of them...
Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer
Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting both of them together into a probably inevitable horror finale....
A Year of Free Comics: My Body and My Daughter by Glynnis Fawkes
Okay it's been a while, but FREE COMICS ARE BACK. And we're back with My Body and My Daughter: An In-Depth Analysis by Glynnis Fawkes in The New Yorker. Fawkes is a new name to the...
Reviews: Three thought-provoking new releases from Retrofit
Shit and Piss by Tyler Landry
Imagine the comic that not only lives up to that title, but manages to do so with a poetic grace. That’s what Landry has achieved, a post-apocalyptic meditation on...
Indie comics fans are already raving about ShortBox #5
The fifth edition of Zainab Akhtar's ShortBox is available for purchase worldwide. This is a curated box of short comics by the best indie cartoonists out there including Freddy Casrasco, Jeremy Sorese Areeba Siddique,...
Review: The quiet poetry of Chaboute’s ‘Alone’
It’s 84 pages in before the subject of French graphic novelist Chaboute's largely silent work Alone finally appears, and even then, it’s only in the form of a hand dropping food to a goldfish in...
Review: Assessing the damage in ‘Roughneck’
Jeff Lemire has become quite a prolific comics creator since 2008. He’s largely devoted himself to the varying forms of genre fiction that comics offers, both his own creations, like Sweet Tooth or The...
