Tag: Julia Gfrorer
Graphic Novel Review: Julia Gfrörer’s WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD speaks to the ineffable
With WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD, cartoonist Julia Gfrörer has collected 12 years of short comix in a new hardcover.
Interview: ROSE EVELETH on Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So...
The anthology mixes comics from an all-star creator lineup with nonfiction examinations of where we may be headed next.
INDIE VIEW: VISION can be deceiving
Vision
By Julia Gfrörer
Fantagraphics
This latest release from New Hampshire-based cartoonist Julia Gfrörer's Vision hearkens back to novels of romance and darkness like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, with perhaps a bit of Rebecca mixed in,...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 12/11/18: This year’s packrat confessions
§ Nice art: Julia Gfrörer's art has always been obsessed with the sea so her comic (with Andy Warner) about about rescuing refugees at sea is both beautiful and harrowing.
§ It's that time...
Review – Julia Gfrörer’s Laid Waste is a Hopefully Pessimistic Read
The moment that affected me the most in Julia Gfrörer's incredibly bleak comic Laid Waste happens after a group of children are seen carrying on duties at the family farm. They milk the cows,...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 8/24/18: Advice for life
§ Nice Art: Victoria "Rollergirl" Jamieson has a comics strip entitled Back-to-School Blues in the NY Times that many may relate to.
§ Here's an excellent twitter thread by Julia Gfrörer that offers succinct career advice:
https://twitter.com/thorazos/status/1032686673598078981
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Eleanor Davis, Julia Gfrörer and more in this years New York Comics Symposium killer...
MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, renaissance man and all time great cartoonist Ben Katchor is not busy enough being a certified G(enius). He also organized the New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium every week in...
31 Days of Halloween: Julia Gfrörer’s spooky T-shirt are your perfect seasonal garb
Julia Gfrörer's comics are always readable, but they are Halloween worthy as well, featuring dark, medieval tales of death and loss. And for Halloween she's posting new t-shirt designs daily based on her haunting art....
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/29/17: Preordering is just ordering
I've got a lot to say about preordering, All Time Comics, Smurfs, the Fourth Disruption and Steve McQueen, and by god, I'm going to say it.
2dcloud Launches Stellar Spring 2017 Crowdfunding Effort to Publish Gothic, Poetic and Owls Comics
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher...
Reviews: Gfrörer, Wiedeman, Gennis look to the past
Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer
This excruciatingly sad novella has Julia Gfrörer examining the horror of being a survivor, in a way that manages to be uplifting at the end, while not betraying the heaviness...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/27/16: Stephen King, George RR Martin and Neil Gaiman walk into...
§ Webcomic of the day: "Your lack Friend" by Ben Passmore. Just read it. It's an excerpt of a longer work that will be sold at MICE in Boston, Ripexpo in Providence and NOCAZ...