Reviews: Gfrörer, Wiedeman, Gennis look to the past
Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer
This excruciatingly sad novella has Julia Gfrörer examining the horror of being a survivor, in a way that manages to...
Review: Hard truths in ‘Soft City’
To take Soft City at face value, there are some very simple lessons to learn from Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner. Everything is the same. There...
Review: Cyril Pedrosa captures the hidden human web in Equinoxes
The girth of Cyril Pedrosa’s Equinoxes — 336 pages — implies narrative complication, but what unfolds is really as simple as the title suggests....
Review: The inevitable woe of ‘Birthmark’
Walking a thin line between depressing and uplifting — a line I hadn’t really thought about existing before — Nathan Jurevicius’ Birthmark brings a familiar...
Review: Missing the mark on magic realism, but doing well with realism itself
Looking at the effects of trauma as a long term property that you find visible bursts of in the short term, The Return Of...
Review: 5 comics that grabbed my attention this week
Our Mother by Luke Howard
Comics has become the territory of many examinations of mental health in regard to personal history, and each manifestation of this...
Review: Evie Wyld’s transformative fear in Everything is Teeth
This mesmerizing and beautifully weird memoir has novelist Evie Wyld going over her childhood years through the lens of extreme, irrational fear, tracing its beginnings...
Review: Comics don’t come more gentle than ‘Mooncop’
Some dreams never turn out quite like you hope they will, and when they all come crashing down, things are going to change. Many...
Review: Guy Colwell looks at the subtle side of control
Human beings have, historically, revealed a vigorous capacity for steering other human beings away from the way they are currently living into a more...
Review: Uncivilized Books demands more of its readers
Houses Of The Holy by Caitlin Skaalrud
Caitlin Skaalrud’s Houses Of The Holy is, on its a surface, a psychedelic and psychological journey through the...
Review: Two successful bios of very different men
It’s always a pleasure when a new graphic novel biography comes out about someone I know absolutely nothing about, and I certainly had no...
Review: Baltic comics anthology S! #25 works its artful magic on Manga
This collection of gaijin mangaka — that is, Manga style comics made by non-Japanese creators — who graduated to the style of Gekiga —...
