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...
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...
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...
Review: ‘Beautiful Darkness’ team goes to Hell in ‘Satania’
There’s something delightfully old fashioned about Satania, at least at the beginning, and that nod to tradition is what makes the whole experience so...
Review: Marcelo D’Salete finds dignity in Brazil’s ugly history of slavery
Brazilian cartoonist Marcelo D’Salete offers a different view of slavery in Run For It, focusing on Brazilian plantations and slavery, and celebrating resistance in...
Review: The Cartoonist is ‘Present’
Near the end of Present, Leslie Stein tells a short tale about a particular long term customer of hers who goes into restaurants, orders...
ONE OR DONE INTERVIEW: Chuck Palahniuk on his new coloring book and what people...
Comics Beat talks to author and super fun dinner guest (we believe) Chuck Palahniuk about his new novella/coloring book.
Review: B. Mure’s ‘Ismyre’ is a city of magic
Titled after the city it depicts, Ismyre couples two disparate issues and brings them together for a magical conclusion.
Ed is a sculptor living in...
Review: ‘A Castle In England’ gives new life to old lives
A Castle In England is the latest in multi-faceted explorations of the history behind single structures, having been preceded by Chris Ware’s Building Stories,...
Review: The other realms of epilepsy revealed in ‘Mis(h)adra’
Mis(h)adra is a hard work to criticize, largely because it’s so personal and so raw in its portrayal of the intimate. Iasmin Omar Ata...
Review: Johnny Appleseed and the Apocalyptic Frontier
Johnny Appleseed is one of those American historical figures who calls into question the line that divides reality from fantasy. He seems like a...
INTERVIEW: X-Men: TAS story editor & writer Eric Lewald on X-Men:TAS Book
It's sometimes hard to believe there was a time before the X-Men was the universally recognized franchise and beloved phenomenon that it is today,...
