Tag: Art
By Its Cover #10: Fantastic Four #1 Released On This Day In 1961…AND Today!
PLUS: The best cover designs this week!
Review: ‘Feast of Fields’ unleashes all the dimensions of emotion and memory at the...
Sean Karemaker created one of my favorite books of 2016, The Ghosts We Know, a dark autobiographical work that achieves a symbolic height as...
Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me...
Review: The gorgeous ‘A Sea of Love’ is both epic and intimate
Unfolding in total silence, from a script by Wilfrid Lupano, and with absolutely breathtaking art by Grégory Panaccione, A Sea of Love inserts broad...
Review: Gipi searches for humanity at the end of the world
In Gipi’s post-apocalyptic drama Land of the Sons, there’s a moment when a father laments whether he should reveal to his sons that dogs...
Review: Weegee biography captures the big picture
Let it be said upfront that in this more enlightened time, legendary photograph Weegee is not the kind of person that is given a...
Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here
The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get...
Matt Chats: Writer Hansel Moreno on Finding Collaborators and His ‘Artists First’ Mentality
Over the past couple of years, many of my favorite comics have been outside the eye of most visitors to comic shops and bookstores,...
By Its Cover #9: The Best Of The First Month Of DC Variants
It looks like this will be more than just a single month event.
Review: Manuele Fior’s ‘Blackbird Days’ examines the mechanics of transformation
Blackbird Days, an anthology of shorter work by Italian graphic novelist Manuele Fior, gathers stories from the past decade, but this is no casual...
Matt Chats: Phil Hester Discusses Writing, Drawing, But Not Writing AND Drawing
Phil Hester has been one of my favorite artists for a long time, with a style that feels suited for any kind of story,...
Review: Cyril Pedrosa’s stunning vision of ‘Portugal’
In America, extended families that are defined by alienation seem to be the result of dysfunction more than anything else, but I’ve found that...
