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...
Review: Looking past Mormon stereotypes in Noah Van Sciver’s ‘One Dirty Tree’
The Mormon ascent into wider cultural awareness has not been under the best circumstances. It’s involved revelations about the fringe of it with the...
Interview: Liana Finck is surprised she’s relatable, but she’s getting used to the idea
Since 2015 Liana Finck has been a rising star in her role as a New Yorker cartoonist thanks to her singular presentation and sensibility,...
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...
Review: The skewed colors of manhood in ‘Tumult’
The noir genre has one dynamic at its center that repeats so often it’s hard to tell if it’s a cliche or an archetype...
Review: ‘Retrograde Orbit’ celebrates the possibilities when all the planets align
British cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski makes her graphic novel debut with Retrograde Orbit, a sweet little meditation on upending roots and reclaiming them.
Flint’s family comes...
Review: German guilt and the nature of mundane evil in ‘Belonging’
What is it like to be of the most despised nationality in modern history? I’m not talking about being an American, though it’s not...
NYCC 2018 Event Guide: Signings and meet-ups and art and more!
Whether it's a signing, an art show, a panel about comics - or just enjoying Happy Hour - we got you covered.
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...
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,...
Review: Liana Finck’s ‘Passing For Human’ gets to the core of all of us
One of the things I like best about Liana Finck is her ability to not only be the only thing like her in comics...
Review: The innocence of childhood is brief in David Small’s ‘Home After Dark’
David Small is old enough to remember the realities of a free-range childhood as the norm that is often romanticized by people my age....
