INDIE VIEW: Children adrift in ‘Girl in the Bay,’ ‘Lollipop Kids,’ and ‘Malaterre’

02/15/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

John Seven reviews The Girl in the Bay #1, The Lollipop Kids #3, and Malaterre.

Review: There’s power and dignity in these ‘Vietnamese Memories’

02/08/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

Clement Baloup’s gorgeous and moving stories of the Vietnamese who settle in America

INDIE VIEW: Frantz, Czap, and Gébé find meaning in different landscapes

01/30/2019 4:00 pm by John Seven Leave a Comment

Reviewed: Maria Frantz’s The Chancellor and the Citadel, Kevin Czap’s Four Years, and Gébé’s Letters To Survivors.

Review: ‘Joylandia’ brilliantly ruins all the holidays for you

12/21/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven 2 Comments

Ever feel pressured to have fun on a holiday? Certain holidays are worse than others for sure. It used to be just New Year’s Eve and St. Patrick’s Day forces pressures for party-going, but now Cinco de Mayo has inched up and even Halloween pressure has become more prevalent. As a low key person, those […]

Review: The dark and charming topsy-turvy Paris of ‘Alas’

11/28/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Anytime I encounter a story with animals dominating the world in an aggressive stance against primitive humans, I can’t help but compare it to the two gold standards of my childhood, Planet of the Apes and Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth. The former, at least the first movie in the series, was thoughtful and […]

Official Selections for the Angoulême Prize announced; Cristin wins Goscinny

11/20/2018 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

This afternoon, the Official Selections for the big prize at the 2019 FIBD in Angoulême were announced, along with prize nominees. The prizes – known as the Fauves – are one of the most prestigious in worldwide comics. In addition, Pierre Cristin, 80, the writer of Valerian and many other comic, was awarded the Prix […]

Review: Brotherhood as artistic evolution in ‘Piero’

11/07/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Edmond Baudoin is a relatively obscure figure in America, looming under whatever radar we have that detects French cartoonists. As explained in Matt Madden’s excellent introduction to Piero — Madden also did the translation of the story — Baudoin specialized in autobiography and was really an early and important practitioner of that form in French […]

INTERVIEW: Sébastien Samson went the distance for MY NEW YORK MARATHON

11/05/2018 5:00 pm by Ricardo Serrano Denis

French cartoonist Sébastien Samson’s graphic novel about running in the New York Marathon shows the universal language of the graphic novel.

Prequel to Popular French Comic Coming from Andy Diggle, Shawn Martinbrough, and Jock

09/25/2018 12:45 pm by Zack Quaintance

Digital comics purveyor ComiXology and French indie publisher Delcourt Group are teaming up to give readers a glance at the events that preceded Christophe Bec’s PROMETHEE series.

Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’

07/31/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

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 parse the topic any better. I can understand if you have reasons to be against people entering the country without going through the “proper” channels — not my view, but you […]