INDIE VIEW: Kristyna Baczynski celebrates nature; ‘Fissure’ warns us about ourselves

05/13/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

Kristyna Baczynski’s ‘Autumn Wild,’ ‘Winter Wild,’ and ‘Spring Wild,’ and Vault Comics’ ‘Fissure’

Radiator Comics looks to the future with Whit Taylor, a Kiva campaign, and a new distributorship venture

05/02/2019 12:45 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

Radiator Comics has announced that it will take over publishing Whit Taylor’s Fizzle, offering a five-issue subscription and reprinting the first two issues.

INDIE VIEW: Three very different types of quests in ‘Babyface,’ ‘Gogor,’ and ‘Nobody Is In Control’

05/01/2019 4:00 pm by John Seven 2 Comments

John Seven reviews ‘Babyface,’ ‘Gogor #1,’ and ‘Nobody Is In Control #1’

INDIE VIEW: Telling women’s stories in ‘Colored’ and ‘Future Corpse’

04/11/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

John Seven reviews ‘Colored: The Unsung Life of Claudette Colvin’ and ‘Future Corpse’

INDIE VIEW: ‘Chicken Rising’ just feels like the end of the world while ‘The Consumptive #4’ actually portrays it

04/05/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 2 Comments

John Seven reviews ‘Chicken Rising’ and ‘The Consumptive #4’

INDIE VIEW: ‘Bronze Age Boogie,’ ‘Invisible Kingdom,’ and comics by Miranda Harmon make for a happy week

04/03/2019 4:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

John Seven reviews ‘Bronze Age Boogie #1’ ‘Invisible Kingdom #1’ ‘One Weird Trick’ and ‘Turtles’

Charles Forsman’s Netflix lightning strikes twice with ‘I Am Not Okay With This’

12/12/2018 5:30 pm by John Seven

One of the biggest surprise Netflix hits of 2018 came from comics but not of the superhero variety. The widely-acclaimed series The End of the Fucking World, which was nominated for a BAFTA and an Emmy and will return for a second season, was birthed as a mini-comic by Charles Forsman, and that’s how director […]

Review: In ‘Fluorescent Mud’ and ‘John, Dear’ it’s not all in the characters’ heads

11/14/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Two new books from Retrofit/Big Planet use the comics form to meditate on the psychological overtaking the physical, both with strong executions in different styles. Reading Eli Howey’s Fluorescent Mud is like wandering through someone else’s mind without a guidebook. I think Howey might agree. The description of the book on Howey’s website says the […]

Review: ‘270°’ and ‘To Build A Fire’ honor different aspects of nature in beautiful packages

10/23/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Is nature our friend or our enemy, or maybe a little of both? Perhaps it’s not even measurable against the human experience, since we are the only creature that has willfully left it behind to craft our own world, and are certainly the only creature that could be characterized as its potential destroyer. I’ve read […]

REVIEW: ‘Bastard’ features the world’s sweetest crime spree

10/10/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

In Bastard, Belgian cartoonist Max de Radigues presents one of the oddest crime partners you can imagine — mother and son. Well, not just mother and son, that’s not in itself odd, I guess, but SWEET mother and son. Devoted mother and son. Mother and son with a great, loving relationship. Oh, also, very young […]