Tag: art comix
Review: Patrick Kyle invites you to force your way into his work
Sometimes it’s better to just give yourself to something rather than to seek out its meaning. Not everything has to have one clear meaning, and in some cases, to bring concrete meaning to a...
Review: Science fiction gets meta in ‘From Now On’
This collection of short works by Malachi Ward and published by Alternative Comics announces itself with a verbal joke — From Now On is another way of saying the future, after all. Ward’s stories reflect...
Review: ‘5,000 Kilometers Per Second’ untangles relationships with elegance
In 2010 Grand Prize winner at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the Lucca Comics Festival in Italy 5,000 Km Per Second, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior utilizes his strong watercolor skills to offer not the whole...
Review: The darker beauty of Cathy G. Johnson’s ‘Gorgeous’
This short, spare, poetic, emotionally brutal piece from Cathy G. Johnson and Koyama Press captures the intersection of three lives, and the unlikely self realization that two of them enact on one. The story...
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War II era diaries and letters, and applies the resulting biography...
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less stressed in the headlines was that the court also found...
Review: Brecht Evens and the complications of growing up
Unfolding like a children’s book gone horribly wrong, Brecht Evens’ Panther begins with the death of Christine’s cat and the appearance what might be an imaginary friend designed to take its place and ease...
Review: Ludovic Debeurme’s Renee looks right into the abyss
In 2006’s Lucille, French cartoonist Ludovic Debeurme gave a surreal and somber tone to a doomed love story, following the individual wrecked lives of anorexic Lucille and the emotionally troubled Arthur, and how they...
Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text
This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and others, is like...
Review: mini kuš! are diverse, challenging, exciting
An off-shoot from the Latvian anthology š!, mini kuš! is a series of short single works, released in blocks of four as standalones. As always, this latest batch is a mix of bizarre and somber, outrageous...
Review: Michael DeForge’s ‘Big Kids’ tells us something about ourselves
Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations, this is a self-righteous pile of bull built from Gen...
Review: New York Review of Books’ new comics line is off to an amazing...
It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far is on making obscure graphic novels available again, and the March...
