Tag: NYRB Comics
INDIE VIEW: Echoes of lost old worlds in ‘Rust Belt’ and ‘Yellow Yellow’
John Seven reviews 'Rust Belt' and 'Yellow Yellow'
INDIE VIEW: Frantz, Czap, and Gébé find meaning in different landscapes
Reviewed: Maria Frantz's The Chancellor and the Citadel, Kevin Czap's Four Years, and Gébé's Letters To Survivors.
Review: Brotherhood as artistic evolution in ‘Piero’
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...
Review: Making sense of Mauretania in ‘The New World’
Subtitled “Comics from Mauretania,” the stories in Chris Reynolds’ The New World don’t take place in the African country of the same name, but in some cryptic landscape never referenced by name in the...
Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection
Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French cartoonist Nicole Claveloux, whose surrealist art comics at the time...
Review: Hard truths in ‘Soft City’
To take Soft City at face value, there are some very simple lessons to learn from Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner. Everything is the same. There is no one thing. Life is not an adventure. In...
Review: New York Review of Books’ new comics line is off to an amazing...
It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far is on making obscure graphic novels available again, and the March...