INDIE VIEW: THE GRANDE ODALISQUE is the best kind of art appropriation
The Grande Odalisque
By Jerome Mulot, Florent Ruppert, Bastien Vives
Translated by Montana Kane
Fantagraphics
The word “badass” has become tiresome in its overuse, and yet that’s the only word available to me to describe the main characters...
A Year of Free Comics: CRISIS ZONE is the definitive 2020 comic
The no-holds barred real-time comic pits Megg, Mogg, & Owl against this messed-up year.
Windsor-Smith, Hernandez, Malkasian and more highlight Fantagraphics 2021 slate
Gary Panter, Richard Sala, Anita Kunz...and more!
Acrossing the Miles: SIMON HANSELMANN of Tasmania’s CRISIS ZONE
“This is a 5-star island, I should point out.”
Comixology Sales: Halloween Picks from DC, Marvel, Fantagraphics, and more
Halloween is very much the flavor of the day right now with DC, Marvel and Fantagraphics all heading in a trick or treat direction with sales at Comixology.
INDIE VIEW: VISION can be deceiving
Vision
By Julia Gfrörer
Fantagraphics
This latest release from New Hampshire-based cartoonist Julia Gfrörer's Vision hearkens back to novels of romance and darkness like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, with perhaps a bit of Rebecca mixed in,...
INDIE VIEW: Gipi proposes ONE STORY for us all
One Story
By Gipi
Translated by Jamie Richards
Fantagraphics
How many old folks out there? I mean at least in your 50s. Have you ever had a conversation with someone 25 years younger where you realize that the...
INDIE VIEW: WINDOWS ON THE WORLD offers a view of America’s invisible people
Windows on the World
Written by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson
Illustrated by Jon Sack
Fantagraphics
In many ways there’s never been a beginning and America has always been a place where the other is demoralized and...
INDIE VIEW: PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK is a soused nightmare of absurd cruelty
Portrait of a Drunk
By Olivier Schrauwen, Florent Ruppert, and Jérôme Mulot
Fantagraphics
Like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel gone horribly wrong, Portrait of a Drunk dives headfirst into swashbuckling adventure, but with a focus on the...
COVER REVEAL: Tenacious D saves the world in the POST-APOCALYPTO graphic novel
The comedic rock duo’s graphic novel is slated to release this September.
INDIE VIEW: Reality crumbles in THE ROUGH PEARL
The Rough Pearl
By Kevin Mutch
Fantagraphics
If you look at the natural world as structured through a multitude of power struggles, one thing leaps out at you that is different from the human condition — the...
Check out pages from Tenacious D’s graphic novel POST-APOCALYPTO
The graphic novel by Jack Black & Kyle Gass hits in September
