INDIE VIEW: ‘Martin Peters’ plays with the facts
Martin Peters
By Patrick Allaby
Conundrum Press
Have you ever had a conversation with a friend where you and the friend trade stories about your teenage years?...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Taxi! Stories From the Back Seat’ savors life’s in-between moments
Taxi! Stories From the Back Seat
By Aimee de Jongh
Conundrum Press
The inside of a taxi is a strange space, in that for one person it...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Tenderness of Stones’ portrays the harshness of loss
Marion Fayolle's storybook of dark emotions
INDIE VIEW: ‘Floppy #1’ and ‘Desolation Bay’ tell different kinds of histories
Two Massachusetts cartoonists put intellectual and poetic heft into their comics.
INDIE VIEW: Abouet’s ‘Akissi’ books gleefully barrel through boundaries
Autobiographical comics for kids like you've never seen before
INDIE VIEW: ‘King of King Court’ celebrates the power of telling your own story
This dysfunctional family memoir is a triumph of resilience
INDIE VIEW: ‘Shanghai Dream’ magnifies a corner of World War II history
Shanghai Dream
Written by Philippe Thirault
Illustrated by Jorge Miguel
Translated by Mark Bence
Humanoids/ Life Drawn
Portrayals of the Holocaust have found their way into multiple comics...
INDIE VIEW: ‘The Lady Doctor’ demystifies the medical world
The Lady Doctor
By Ian Williams
Pennsylvania State University Press
Ian Williams has made a name for himself in the Graphic Medicine movement as an advocate for...
INDIE VIEW: Baltic publisher kuš! still pushes the boundaries of comics
The Latvian comics publisher kuš! has been incredibly successful at getting its message out there since its creation in 2007. It doesn’t just focus...
INDIE VIEW: Making new lives in ‘Walking Uphill’ and ‘Rose’
Rose: A Double Life
Written by Denis Lapière and Émilie Alibert
Illustrated by Valérie Vernay
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Europe Comics
The first of a trilogy of...
INDIE VIEW: ‘How I Tried To Be A Good Person’ and the dangers of...
How I Tried to Be a Good Person
By Ulli Lust
Fantagraphics Books
Some things just seem like bad ideas, like they are inevitably going to head...
INDIE VIEW: ‘They Called Us Enemy’ lays out the history we’re doomed to repeat
John Seven reviews 'They Called Us Enemy'
