Review: Two tiny books with big differences between them
Nicolas by Pascal Girard
This is a deceptively simple book that takes slices from the life of creator Pascal Girard’s life that all revolve around his...
Review: Baltic comics anthology S! #25 works its artful magic on Manga
This collection of gaijin mangaka — that is, Manga style comics made by non-Japanese creators — who graduated to the style of Gekiga —...
Review: Seitchik’s ‘Exits’ offers invisibility as the beginning of transformation
In Exits, Daryl Seitchik takes a fairly obvious, well-worn bit of symbolism and manages to make the readers’ familiarity with it into one of...
Raina’s excellent week
It was quite a week for books by comics folks. Jerusalem AND Ghosts. Raina Telegemeier is on tour and kicked it off at St....
Review: Rabagliati’s ‘Paul’ books remain the most insightful comics about males ever
Michel Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical Paul character is one of the delights of modern comics, with each volume seamless in mixing sweet charm with a sadness...
Review: The Fun Family is less fun than you think it is and that’s...
Benjamin Frisch’s The Fun Family is one of those works that you think you know what it is about, but you don’t really. That’s...
Review: Sean Karemaker’s autobio comics are intense and poetic
It’s not a visibly large book, about average looking at a glance, but Sean Karemaker’s The Ghosts We Know is more dense than most...
Nice art: Legendary artist Robert E McGinnis and Todd Klein team for awesome retro...
With the American Gods tv show in the works, and more Neil Gaiman stuff always in the hopper, his books are often reprinted. And...
People are beginning to read and review Alan Moore’s Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a new novel by Alan Moore that is some 600,000 words long and 1200 pages of very long paragraphs and small type,...
Review: Daniel Johnston biography sets a whole new standard
As biographical graphic novels go, you’ve never read anything like The Incantations Of Daniel Johnston, a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the...
Review: ‘Shadoweyes’ is a true transformative superhero
It’s a rare occasion that you can use words like sweet, thoughtful, and gentle to describe a science fiction superhero story taking place in...
Barnes & Nobles loses $24 million in fiscal 2016, set to open restaurants
With the Nook dragging down profits all around, Barnes & Noble reported a 3,1% revenue fall for fiscal 2016, with a net loss of $24.4...
