Tag: Retrofit Comics
INDIE VIEW: ‘Multo’ tackles the big mystery of self
Multo
By Andrew Lorenzi
Retrofit/Big Planet
Andrew Lorenzi’s chosen focal point of autobiography to opens his cryptic book Multo is a rumination on his own history with...
Review – Kirby, Kubrick & Cannabis Merged in One Space Epic in Pat Aulisio’s...
A Sci-Fi comics remixing Stanley Kubrick, Jack Kirby and Cheech & Chong in an eclectic comics collection.
Review: A life unfolds through cassette tapes in ‘All the Sad Songs’
Cassette tapes are one of those things. I don’t know if people who didn’t live decades of their life with cassette tapes as part...
Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here
The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get...
INTERVIEW: Box Brown Talks About Andy Kaufman’s Wrestling Fetishes and More in Newest Graphic...
Ever since his Andre the Giant and Tetris: The Games People Play, writer and artist Box Brown has become better known for his documentary-style,...
Exploring Climate Change & Migrant Detention in Sophie Yanow, Iona Fox and Tings Chak’s...
What is a Glacier by Sophie Yanow, Almanac 2017, by Iona Fox & Undocumented, The Architecture of Migrant Detention* by Tings Chak.
I read these three comics...
Reviews: Three thought-provoking new releases from Retrofit
Shit and Piss by Tyler Landry
Imagine the comic that not only lives up to that title, but manages to do so with a poetic...
The TCAF Interviews – Alabaster Pizzo on Sequential Comics, Colours & Online Reviews
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is one of the most influential and important comic book event in North America. It's mission is to "promote...
Review – I Thought YOU Hated ME by MariNaomi: Longevity of friendship
MariNaomi’s latest comic is a fascinating story of friendship spanning decades. Published by the consistently excellent publisher Retrofit Comics, I Thought YOU Hated...
Review: Bernadou, Varela, Mendes deliver three strong works
Canopy by Karine Bernadou
Bernadou’s excellent silent parable of what it’s like to be a woman out in the world follows Canopy from her childhood —...
Review: 5 comics that grabbed my attention this week
Our Mother by Luke Howard
Comics has become the territory of many examinations of mental health in regard to personal history, and each manifestation of this...
Review: Leela Corman connects the emotional and intellectual dots
Leela Corman’s work is a lot of things in We All Wish For Deadly Force. Whether using vivid, thick colors or more simple black...
