“So What? Press” is serving up exciting things this April!
Baristas fighting monsters, fantastic creators, and hot coffee encounters- So What? Press has all sorts of things in store this month!
Starting in mid-April, a new 10-page Tales of the Night Watchman story by Dave Kelly will...
Review: Eric Haven’s comics bring madness and sanity together for a hug
Eric Haven’s new collection of short works, Compulsive Comics, offers good laughs and vigorous surrealism, and you can easily enjoy it for those two things and walk away from it entertained and cheerful. But...
Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection
Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French cartoonist Nicole Claveloux, whose surrealist art comics at the time...
Review: Robert Silverberg gets a makeover
Adapted from Robert Silverberg’s 1970 novel of the same title, writer Phillippe Thirault and artist Laura Zuccheri face the challenge of helping the nearly 50-year-old science fiction novel seem not so outdated. Not story-wise,...
Review: The mind-bending wild west meditation of ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’
In Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang’s The Smell of Starving Boys, the words “virgin land” are used several times to describe America’s West. The idea is that this area is untouched, but photographer...
Review: Turning the mirror on Velazquez in ‘The Ladies In Waiting’
This biography of 17th Century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez wraps itself around one work, in particular, Las Meninas, or The Ladies In Waiting, from which Santiago Garcia and Javier Olivares take their title.
The work...
Review: Ellice Weaver’s ‘Something City’ is a Busytown for the 21st Century
Like a Richard Scarry book for the modern urbanite, Ellice Weaver’s beautifully drawn Something City weaves together various corners of an urban environment to create a tapestry of experience that portrays the trees to make...
Review: The ‘Park Bench’ at the center of the universe
There have been several good works over the past few years - Here, A Castle In England, and 750 Years In Paris come to mind - that examine the idea of place, and each...
Review: Anneli Furmark’s drama of Swedish winter, politics, and family dynamics
That the personal is political is acknowledged by plenty, but seldom in the way, it’s portrayed in Red Winter.
Taking place in 1970s Sweden as the Social Democrats find themselves on the wane, Anneli Furmark...
Review: Deacon’s ‘Geis’ series depicts the human condition as a magical castle battle
In the fantasy series Geis, the European fantasy tropes are given a run for their money in a sort of It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World style parable of power and authority, by...
Review: Growing up with ‘The Case of the Missing Men’
From the Hardy Boys to Scooby Doo to Blue Velvet and onward the trope of teens attempting to solve mysteries is a well-worn one and not likely to go anywhere. There’s something about pesky...
Faith Erin Hicks has written a YA novel called ‘Comics Will Break Your Heart’...
Faith Erin Hicks is the Canadian cartoonist, mostly known for drawing many graphic novels including, some written by her - like The Nameless City and Friend with Boys - some written by others -...
