Review: Manuele Fior’s ‘Blackbird Days’ examines the mechanics of transformation
Blackbird Days, an anthology of shorter work by Italian graphic novelist Manuele Fior, gathers stories from the past decade, but this is no casual gathering of independent creations. Fior’s themes stretch richly through the...
Review: Cyril Pedrosa’s stunning vision of ‘Portugal’
In America, extended families that are defined by alienation seem to be the result of dysfunction more than anything else, but I’ve found that Europe has multiple instances born of migration, war, disease. Roots...
Review: Michael Kupperman’s haunting quest for ‘All The Answers’
Often in our history, but especially right now, popular culture is an obstructive thing, and one of the main things it keeps us from seeing is what happened before whatever is happening now. It’s...
Review: The Bursting Beauty of Niki de Saint Phalle
When the biographies of so many celebrated male artists are revealed as chronicles self-destruction where the subjects too often allow themselves to become awash in their weakest points, this biography of painter and sculptor...
BookExpo/BookCon 2018: Lots of Comics Programming! (and other stuff if you like to read.)
This week, ReedPop once again takes over (most of) the Javits Center, with the BookExpo trade show and BookCon consumer show scheduled from Wednesday through Sunday.
Whereas BookExpo once occupied both floors of Javits (trade...
Review: ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ not hard to enjoy
The Angouleme-winning Monsieur Jean series by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian is celebrated here with It Don’t Come Easy, a collection of some of the latter-day stories in the series, a grouping that covers...
Review: ‘I, Parrot’ advocates finding your own voice
On the surface, I, Parrot is a madcap farce about taking care of 42 parrots as it snowballs into absurdity on almost a surreal degree. Taken on all levels, writer Deb Olin Unferth and...
INTERVIEW: Chuck Palahniuk wishes you a happy Adjustment Day.
This week, the purveyor of offensive and introspective, Chuck Palahniuk publishes his first novel in four years. The book is called Adjustment Day, while the name sounds like a story about a chiropractor gone...
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...
The Man Behind Homestuck: An Interview with Andrew Hussie
With the release of his massive hit webcomic hitting the bookshelves, I had the opportunity to speak with Andrew Hussie, the elusive and hilarious creator of Homestuck, one of the most ambitious and interactive...
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...
Review: Jason Novak hails Caesar to death
There’s a whole lot about the current political climate in the United States that makes Jason Novak’s Et Tu, Brute?, which will be out in June, one of the best reading choices you can...
