#SDCC ’16 Special Guest Ben Hatke Talks About His Work, His Eisner Nomination, and...
By: Nicholas Eskey
During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, writer and artist Ben Hatke is spending time with publisher First Second to help commemorate their 20th anniversary.
Fortunately for me, I got a chance to sit...
Review: Patrick Kyle invites you to force your way into his work
Sometimes it’s better to just give yourself to something rather than to seek out its meaning. Not everything has to have one clear meaning, and in some cases, to bring concrete meaning to a...
Review: ‘5,000 Kilometers Per Second’ untangles relationships with elegance
In 2010 Grand Prize winner at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the Lucca Comics Festival in Italy 5,000 Km Per Second, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior utilizes his strong watercolor skills to offer not the whole...
Alan Moore’s Secret Q&A Cult Exposed! Part I: You Won’t Believe What They Asked...
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Internet, unbeknownst to all but the initiated, there’s an organisation that calls itself the Really Very Serious Alan Moore Scholars’ Group. Occasionally they get to actually communicate...
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War II era diaries and letters, and applies the resulting biography...
Review: Brecht Evens and the complications of growing up
Unfolding like a children’s book gone horribly wrong, Brecht Evens’ Panther begins with the death of Christine’s cat and the appearance what might be an imaginary friend designed to take its place and ease...
Review: Ludovic Debeurme’s Renee looks right into the abyss
In 2006’s Lucille, French cartoonist Ludovic Debeurme gave a surreal and somber tone to a doomed love story, following the individual wrecked lives of anorexic Lucille and the emotionally troubled Arthur, and how they...
Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text
This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and others, is like...
Review: Aama is intelligent, mind-bending science fiction with a core of humanity
Taking the idea of awareness and screwing with it from multiple vantage points — self-awareness, awareness of the space around you, familial awareness, scientific awareness, societal awareness — Aama addresses, among other things, the...
Review: Michael DeForge’s ‘Big Kids’ tells us something about ourselves
Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations, this is a self-righteous pile of bull built from Gen...
Review: New York Review of Books’ new comics line is off to an amazing...
It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far is on making obscure graphic novels available again, and the March...
Review: Roman Muradov’s ‘The End Of A Fence’ is cryptic, but beautiful
Immensely talented Russian illustrator Roman Muradov has quickly established himself as one of the most complex cartoonists around, both visually and narratively. In Muradov’s hands, the simplest fable can become a massively abstracted exercise...
