Tag: art comix
Review: The ‘Park Bench’ at the center of the universe
There have been several good works over the past few years - Here, A Castle In England, and 750 Years In Paris come to...
Review: Anneli Furmark’s drama of Swedish winter, politics, and family dynamics
That the personal is political is acknowledged by plenty, but seldom in the way, it’s portrayed in Red Winter.
Taking place in 1970s Sweden as...
Review: Deacon’s ‘Geis’ series depicts the human condition as a magical castle battle
In the fantasy series Geis, the European fantasy tropes are given a run for their money in a sort of It's A Mad Mad...
CAB 2017 Debuts Part Two: More exciting comics to fill your brains and...
Yet more amazing comics debuting at tomorrow' Comic Arts Brooklyn show!
Roopert
August Lipp
Revival House
56 pages, 8.5" X 11" 2 color offset
$10
The long-awaited debut by comics virtuoso, August...
CAB 2017 Debuts Part 1: From a Human Tree to Penny the talking cat...
It is time for our sort of annual look at all the news books coming out at this year';s Comic Arts Brooklyn fest. Feast...
Review: B. Mure’s ‘Ismyre’ is a city of magic
Titled after the city it depicts, Ismyre couples two disparate issues and brings them together for a magical conclusion.
Ed is a sculptor living in...
Review: ‘A Castle In England’ gives new life to old lives
A Castle In England is the latest in multi-faceted explorations of the history behind single structures, having been preceded by Chris Ware’s Building Stories,...
Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’
This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have...
Review: Ulli Lust’s ‘Voices In The Dark’ is a walk on the worst side
The offerings from New York Review Comics have revealed one challenging work after another with curation of truly elevated works, but as impressive as...
Review – Loneliness in the North in Jon Iñaki’s Yukon Ghost
The Canadian North is a vast, cold and isolated places at times. It can be a tough place for the soul, it seems to...
2017 Ignatz Nominations include a new category; three noms for Ferris
The 2017 Ignatz Award nominations have just been announced, and this years honorees are a solid mix of mainstream (March Book 3), indie (My Favorite Thing is Monsters) and micro-press/self-published (Carolyn Nowak, Sabin Cauldron). I draw no wider implications from the list except that comics 2017 artistically speaking are strong. Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters - kind of the To Kill a Mockingbird of comics at this point - lead with three noms including Outstanding Artist, GN and Story.
Review: Looking for truth in ‘Crawl Space’
I have a feeling that quite a lot of us would rather be somewhere else these days. It wouldn’t be so bad to be...
