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Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’

01/04/2019 4:35 pm by John Seven 2 Comments

Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’

In Parallel Lives, Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen presents multiple versions of himself across the space-time continuum and well into dimensions that are untraceable in any normal sense, and he does so in a delivery that is decidedly singular. There’s no one else making comics like Schrauwen, and any given story is like an absurd deep […]

Filed Under: Art, Art Comix, Comics, Fantagraphics, Graphic Novels, Reviews Tagged With: Belgian comics, Fantagraphics, Olivier Schrauwen

You can now subscribe to Retrofit’s dynamite 2015 lineup

02/04/2015 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

You can now subscribe to Retrofit’s dynamite 2015 lineup

If there’s such a thing as “a big micro press” Retrofit Comics might just apply. With a monthly schedule of small, attractive books by the premiere cartoonists working, they’ve put out some of the most notable comics of the past few years, including Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden, Tom Hart’s Daddy Lightning, and Flocks by L. Nichols.

And now you can subscribe to the whole 2015 lineup, which is a stunner, including works by Olivier Schwawen, Matt Madden, Kate Leth and more.

Filed Under: Literary Comics, Retailing & Marketing, Top News Tagged With: Andrew Lorenzi, Box Brown, Josh Burggraf, Kate Leth, Laura Knetzger, Laura Lannes, Mare Odomo, matt madden, Olivier Schrauwen, Retrofit Comics, Sophie Franz, Steven Weissman, Yumi Sakugawa

CAB Fantagraphics debuts: Schrauwen, Horrocks, Rickheit, Knisly, Romberger and van Cook, ZAP….oh yeah

11/07/2014 5:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

CAB Fantagraphics debuts: Schrauwen, Horrocks, Rickheit, Knisly, Romberger and van Cook,  ZAP….oh yeah

And that just about wraps it up here! With new books by Horrocks, Rickheit, Schrauwen, Knisley, James Romberger and Marguerite van Cook, and a little item called The Complete ZAP! I think Fanta is kinda….ruling. Get these REALY kids because they will go FAST FAST FAST. Arsene Schrauwen by Olivier Schrauwen Follow along as Olivier’s […]

Filed Under: CAFs, Fantagraphics, Top News Tagged With: CAB 2014, dylanhorrocks, frank stack, hans rickheit, james romberger, Lucy Knisley, marguerite van cook, massive gay manga, Mini Comics, Olivier Schrauwen, the complete zap, wilfred santiago

The mystery and joy of BCGF

11/21/2012 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

The mystery and joy of BCGF

This was the third indie show of the year—TCAF and SPX were the other two—where I experienced the complete rapture of falling in love with comics all over again for the first time. Love, death, mystery—when the first time happens all over again, you know you’re in the right place. I wasn’t the only one feeling the love.

Filed Under: Art Comix, Cartoonists, Conventions, Indies, Literary Comics, News Tagged With: Anouk Ricard, art spiegelman, blexbolex, Cartoonists, Chris Ware, Conventions, Indies, News, Olivier Schrauwen, Ruppert & Mulot

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