Review: In ‘Fluorescent Mud’ and ‘John, Dear’ it’s not all in the characters’ heads
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...
Review: ‘270°’ and ‘To Build A Fire’ honor different aspects of nature in beautiful...
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...
REVIEW: ‘Bastard’ features the world’s sweetest crime spree
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,...
Review: ‘Bald Knobber’ combines simple history with complicated family lives
The title of Robert Sergel’s Bald Knobber isn’t just a silly word juxtaposition but actually refers to a historical group of vigilantes from the late 19th Century that operated in the Missouri Ozarks. In the...
Review: ‘Flocks’ is an inspirational autobiography
In my experience, once people get older and their teenage experience settles into a hazy myth in their brains that supplants the actual memories, almost everyone thinks they were the weird-one-out in high school....
SPX Preview: ‘smallness’ Tells a Big Story About Being Human
Ashanti Fortson weaves a beautiful story of forgiveness and failure with 'smallness'. The one-shot comic will debut at SPX, here's our preview.
INTERVIEW: Jordan Clark on Writing ‘The Black Experience’ and This American Moment
Writer Jordan Clark talks about creating his mini-comic about the Black experience in America with artist Ahmara Smith, what it means to be an ally, and how we can do a better job of meeting the moment.
Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here
The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get older and realize that the lives of most people who...
Review: Making sense of Mauretania in ‘The New World’
Subtitled “Comics from Mauretania,” the stories in Chris Reynolds’ The New World don’t take place in the African country of the same name, but in some cryptic landscape never referenced by name in the...
Review: Whit Taylor reveals what’s missing
In two recent releases, Whit Taylor uses her strong talent for intimacy in cartooning to present situations — some personal, some fictional — that engulf the reader in such a way that the emotional...
Crowdfunding Watch: The Slice of Life Edition
Take a peak at some slice of life inspired comics in this week's Crowdfunding Watch.
Review: Dave Ortega puts family first in ‘Dias de Consuelo’
With immigration in general and Mexico in particular having become such issues of anger in modern America, Dave Ortega’s tender, informative family saga Dias de Consuelo couldn’t come around at a better time. Pulling...
