Review: Jessica Campbell is so judgmental
I’ve been a big fan of Jessica Campbell’s work since I read her Oily Comics debut My Sincerest Apologies, and what her output lacks...
Review: Comics don’t come more gentle than ‘Mooncop’
Some dreams never turn out quite like you hope they will, and when they all come crashing down, things are going to change. Many...
Review: Guy Colwell looks at the subtle side of control
Human beings have, historically, revealed a vigorous capacity for steering other human beings away from the way they are currently living into a more...
Review: Two successful bios of very different men
It’s always a pleasure when a new graphic novel biography comes out about someone I know absolutely nothing about, and I certainly had no...
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...
