Review: A man and his weaknesses drifting in ‘The Sea’
Getting old comes with several features, some of them obvious but many of them not. One of the most alarming is the loss of...
INDIE VIEW: The human condition examined, portrayed, and laughed at
Reviews of Direct Action Gets the Goods, Hobo Mom, and Viewotron #1
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Charles Forsman and Max de Radiguès team-up for ‘Hobo Mom’
On the shelves January 22 from Fantagraphics
Review – The Disappointment of Roman Muradov’s Vanishing Act
The Disappointment of Roman Muradov's Vanishing Act
INDIE VIEW: True tales of the border, true parables of the monkey planet, and...
Reviewed: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong, POTA: Visionaries by Dana Gould & Chad Lewis, The Scar by Andrea Ferraris & Reno Chiocca
Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’
In Parallel Lives, Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen presents multiple versions of himself across the space-time continuum and well into dimensions that are untraceable in...
Interview: M. Dean still really likes The Carpenters, but she’s got it under control
In cartoonist M. Dean’s recent book from Fantagraphics, I Am Young, she traces moments in the lives of her characters through the music that...
Interview: Jim Woodring on working with Jack Kirby, having visions and making comics
James Romberger and Jim Woodring in conversation - plus a Comic Arts Brooklyn report.
Charles Forsman’s Netflix lightning strikes twice with ‘I Am Not Okay With This’
One of the biggest surprise Netflix hits of 2018 came from comics but not of the superhero variety. The widely-acclaimed series The End of...
Review: ‘Mort Cinder’ is a pioneer of the macabre
Mort Cinder — the character, not the book — offers more questions than answers, but that’s how it should be. Mort Cinder, the book,...
Review – Julia Gfrörer’s Laid Waste is a Hopefully Pessimistic Read
The moment that affected me the most in Julia Gfrörer's incredibly bleak comic Laid Waste happens after a group of children are seen carrying...
Review: Music as markers in ‘I Am Young’
Through the years, one thing that has consistently figured into the teenage remembrances of people I’ve known is music. We might have had completely...
