Avery Hill Announces their 2019 Line-up with Claire Scully, Shanti Rai, George Wylesol and Scott Jason Smith
Review: Different sides of empowerment in ‘Terrible Means’ and ‘A City Inside’
Terrible Means is a prequel to B. Mure’s Ismyre book from a couple years ago, but you don’t need to have read the previous book to understand it. As the book begins, there is something wrong in Ismyre, but those who notice it can’t quite put their finger on what is causing it. Ex-biologist Henriett […]
Review: ‘Retrograde Orbit’ celebrates the possibilities when all the planets align
British cartoonist Kristyna Baczynski makes her graphic novel debut with Retrograde Orbit, a sweet little meditation on upending roots and reclaiming them. Flint’s family comes from the planet Doma, but they fled to Tisa following a disaster there. Living in exile for safety reasons, they survived, largely through Flint’s mom’s work in the mines, which […]
Review: ‘The Great North Wood’ is a magnificent meditation on hidden history
As a meditation on man’s relationship with nature and the landscape, and the poetic ironies inherent in this relationship, The Great North Wood presents one powerful image that sticks with you as histories unfold — an empty box of fried chicken, discarded on the ground, with a picture of a chicken on it. That’s a […]
Review: ‘It’s Cold In The River At Night’ presents love as an unknown country
Strangers in an unnamed European rural area, Carl and Rita have moved into a house on stilts in the water, the last of its kind where storms brew and the house’s fortitude during those storms is an uncertainty. It’s Cold In The River At Night presents this setting as foreboding panorama as the setting for […]
Review: Ellice Weaver’s ‘Something City’ is a Busytown for the 21st Century
Like a Richard Scarry book for the modern urbanite, Ellice Weaver’s beautifully drawn Something City weaves together various corners of an urban environment to create a tapestry of experience that portrays the trees to make the forest more clear. A city is a super-organism, a compilation of sections and neighborhoods, which are in turn the sum […]
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 the city of Ismyre who is burdened with a couple problems. First someone is stealing small figurines out of his apartment and second he has been commissioned for an ice […]
Review – Unsettling Poetry in Ghosts, Etc. by George Wylesol
George Wylesol’s Ghosts, Etc. is a poem, light and fleeting. It is a sheet hanging loosely in the wind over an ethereal body. It’s a poem dedicated to loneliness, to empty rooms and all the kinds of losses we experience (loss of time, place, faith and people). It is a festival of colour when no […]
UK Publishers Avery Hill & Breakdown Press Announce New Graphic Novels for Fall 2017
Busy news day for alternative press right in the middle of the flurry of news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con. Both Avery Hill Publishing and Breakdown Press, two respected UK publishers, have announced upcoming graphic novels and comics for the Fall. First, Avery Hill will be releasing It’s Cold in the River at Night by Alex Potts in […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: How to break into comics and how to break your heart if you are Spider-Man
§ Nice Art: 13th Dimension has reprinted the ENTIRE story by Faith Erin Hicks from the Attack on Titan anthology. § Lots of news and notes to catch up on, but first, it has come to my attention that copy editing has been unusually substandard of late, even for this site. While the holiday, […]