Review: Unpacking your demons in ‘The Vagabond Valise’
You can go find all the horror comics currently being published and line them up with The Vagabond Valise and probably not find one...
Review: ‘Joylandia’ brilliantly ruins all the holidays for you
Ever feel pressured to have fun on a holiday? Certain holidays are worse than others for sure. It used to be just New Year’s...
Review: ‘On A Sunbeam’ is a heartfelt sci-fi tour de force
The past is filled with unresolved issues, incidents, relationships for most people, and in many ways Tillie Walden’s On A Sunbeam is about moving...
Preview: DK’s Fearless and Fantastic! offers profiles in courage for Marvel female superheroes
DK Publishing is set on making sure readers know their female superheroes just as 2018 fires its last shots with the release of Fearless and...
Review: Broken souls, bloody noses, and activism in ‘Flem’
Brussels-based and Montreal-born cartoonist R. Rosen makes her graphic novel debut with Flem, a tale of psychological distress, self-destruction, and political activism that casts...
Review: ‘Pyongyang’ shows North Korea is the same as it ever was
I feel like over the last decade, the travel graphic novel has become crowded with pedestrian work. The form has taken on the role...
Review: Sid Vicious is back in ‘Punk’s Not Dead’ and this time he’s doing...
If you had asked me a week ago what I thought of the idea of a comic about the ghost of Sid Vicious palling...
Review: ‘Mort Cinder’ is a pioneer of the macabre
Mort Cinder — the character, not the book — offers more questions than answers, but that’s how it should be. Mort Cinder, the book,...
GET A GRIP!: Ellen Forney reveals the healing power of ‘SMEDMERTS’ & talks ROCK...
"Feeling like you have a grip is feeling like you have the means to be flexible and figure our new things."
Review: The dark and charming topsy-turvy Paris of ‘Alas’
Anytime I encounter a story with animals dominating the world in an aggressive stance against primitive humans, I can’t help but compare it to...
Review: The thrilling darkness of Rachael Ball’s ‘Wolf’
Everyone knows about the wider mythologies that creep their way into childhood, everything from Bigfoot to Slender Man that infects young brains in a...
Review: Mortality from all sides in ‘In The Future, We Are Dead’
Death is a multi-faceted subject and German cartoonist Eva Müller’s In The Future We Are Dead gives it the treatment it deserves. Müller comes at...
