You have only a few short hours to pre-order Short Box 2
Pre-orders for the second edition of Short Box, the box of exclusive comics and swag curated by Zainab Akhtar (with some logistical help from...
Review: Daniel Johnston biography sets a whole new standard
As biographical graphic novels go, you’ve never read anything like The Incantations Of Daniel Johnston, a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the...
Review: Ben Sears mixes ghosts and science fiction for fun
Ben Sears’ Night Air is built around characters that have apparently appeared in zines and anthologies, but I confess to being totally unfamiliar with...
Review: ‘Shadoweyes’ is a true transformative superhero
It’s a rare occasion that you can use words like sweet, thoughtful, and gentle to describe a science fiction superhero story taking place in...
Review: Retrofit offers tons of excellent comics by women
Bear, Bird, and Stag Were Arguing In The Forest and Other Stories by Madeline Flores
Flores offers three philosophical shorter works that come together well in...
Review: Rebecca Roher’s tender family memories are a pleasing meditation on loss
For many people, the earliest experience of human loss that pierces their emotions and affects their everyday existence is the death of a grandparent,...
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,...
Review: Science fiction gets meta in ‘From Now On’
This collection of short works by Malachi Ward and published by Alternative Comics announces itself with a verbal joke — From Now On is another...
Review: The darker beauty of Cathy G. Johnson’s ‘Gorgeous’
This short, spare, poetic, emotionally brutal piece from Cathy G. Johnson and Koyama Press captures the intersection of three lives, and the unlikely self...
Review: Melissa Mendes’ ‘Lou’ charts family dynamics in a charming, honest way
Massachusetts cartoonist Melissa Mendes has a knack for comics that not only center on kids, but present the world from their points of view...
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less...
Review: How did I miss Andrea Tsurumi???
I’m ashamed to admit that prior to reading Why Would You Do That? from Hic and Hoc, which will debut at TCAF this weekend,...
