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...
Retrofit announces Summer list and Kickstarter with Corman, Kochalka, Davis and more
Retrofit Comics has been putting out some of the finest small press comics of recent years and they've announced their Spring/Summer 2016 line with Leela Corman, Alabaster...
Review: Julia Wertz’s thoughtful and healing style of self-deprecation
Julia Wertz’s Eisner-nominated Drinking At The Movies, originally from 2010 but here with a handsome reissue from Koyama Press, is renowned for its humorous...
Secret Acres announces SPACE by Robert Sergal for April
Let's get going with spring book announcements: SPACE, a collection of Robert Sergal's series ESCHEW. Sergal is an Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Comic...
Sparkplug Books shutting down this summer
Sparkplug Books, the seminal indie publisher founded by the late Dylan Williams, will shut down over the summer, publisher Virginia Paine announced on the...
Review: The Red Drip Of Courage distills Stephen Crane to a cartoon essence
You can go for years reading comics and come upon plenty of bizarre works, but at least understand where these are coming from. It’s...
Review: Kelly Froh & Dan Mazur’s two non-fiction delights
The Weekend Casserole Collection by Kelly Froh
Froh brings together a number of short pieces from various sources — anthologies she’s contributed to, some of...
Review: Meags Fitzgerald continues her autobiographical innovations with Long Red Hair
In Meags Fitzgerald’s previous book, Photobooth: A Biography, which documented just about anything you ever wondered about photo booths, she went far beyond her...
Review: Whit Taylor’s Up Down Clown tackles mental health issues
The sad clown is a trope that has been well-used in every storytelling media there is, but Whit Taylor’s Up Down Clown from Ninth...
Review: Baltic anthology š! #23 offers big art in a small package
The Balkan comics anthology š! from kuš! is one of the more challenging delights of the comics world, grafting the sensibility of a contemporary art gallery onto the comics page. It regularly presents challenging and edgy work, often abstract, but with enough show of personality that you can see these are the works of real humans, and it comes in a striking mini-digest format that evokes Little Big Books, adding to its appeal as an object to display.
Take the 2015 Micro-Press Survey
Robyn Chapman is once again collecting information for her annual Micropress Survey, which is not only a fact filled compendium of the state...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Comic Arts Brooklyn Interview Special
Recorded live in New York, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and...















