John Seven reviews ‘Desolation Wilderness’ and ‘Kingdom of the Blind’
Small Press Update: 2dCloud, Avery Hill, Pow Pow Press, Shortbox and Koyama Press
The Small Press Comics Scene might be small, but it’s energetic. We’re taking a look at some new publications from various publishers and a closer look at a crowdfunding campaign.
Review: The Passion of Discovery in Follow Me In by Katriona Chapman
Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In is a wonderful graphic novel about personal growth and learning that we couldn’t recommend more
Avery Hill Announces 2019 Publications with George Wylesol, Shanti Rai and More
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 […]