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Review: Technology as the agent of change, good or bad, in ‘I Feel Machine’

11/06/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: Technology as the agent of change, good or bad, in ‘I Feel Machine’

In some ways aiming to be the Black Mirror of graphic anthologies, I Feel Machine features six cartoonists each exploring the intersection between humanity and technology, and how humans change because of their encounters with the fruits of technological advance. Unlike Black Mirror, though, the creators behind I Feel Machine don’t necessarily try to start […]

Filed Under: Art, Art Comix, Books, Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Anthologies, Box Brown, Erik Svetoft, Julian Hanshaw, Krent Able, science fiction, SelfMadeHero, Shaun Tan, tillie walden

Review: Julian Hanshaw’s ‘Cloud Hotel’ keeps things mysterious

07/17/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: Julian Hanshaw’s ‘Cloud Hotel’ keeps things mysterious

In his previous graphic novel Tim Ginger, Julian Hanshaw touched up on UFOs in context of their place in popular conspiracy culture, mysterious but unlikely. In Cloud Hotel, Hanshaw does the exact opposite — he puts UFOs front and center, but somehow makes them more mysterious by doing so. Hanshaw says that Cloud Hotel is […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics, Graphic Novels, Reviews, Top Shelf Tagged With: Julian Hanshaw, Top Shelf

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