San Diego’s Little Fish Comic Studio Is Educating A New Generation of Fans, Artists,...
In recent years, more teachers and librarians are finally recognizing the educational appeal of comic-books. Yes, we the fans have known of their artistry,...
Review: Kristen Radtke’s autobiography captures the big picture in the small frame
I am often torn about autobiographical comics. Not whether they should exist or not — of course people should create the comics they are...
Eleanor Davis and Christina Tran win the annual Cartoonist Studio Prize
Slate and the Center for Cartoon Studies have announced the winners of the fifth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize.
In the print category, Eleanor Davis won for Libby’s Dad (Retrofit...
Review: You’ve got to fight for your right to make art!
Though it’s tempting to pronounce the atmosphere in James Albon’s Her Bark And Her Bite as retro or even nostalgic, timeless might be the...
Review: Max Andersson unpacks a family nightmare in ‘The Excavation’
Underneath the surreal nightmare presented by Swedish cartoonist Max Andersson and despite the dream logic to so much of the action in The Excavation, there’s a...
Review: Emil Ferris beckons the monsters into the light of day
It’s fair to say that Emil Ferris’ sprawling My Favorite Thing Is Monsters — volume one of a two volume work — came out...
Review: You’ll want to visit ‘The Obscure Cities’
The second English language volume in French/Belgian team Benoit Peeters and François Schuiten's The Obscure Cities series, this was recently revived through a Kickstarter campaign by Alaxis...
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...
