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INDIE VIEW: ‘Multo’ tackles the big mystery of self

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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 church, spurred on from a post jog rest within one....

Review – Kirby, Kubrick & Cannabis Merged in One Space Epic in Pat Aulisio’s...

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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’

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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 of them can really gather what they mean to people...

Review: Karl Stevens is actually ‘The Winner’ here

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The pressure to do something a little more than make a transcript of your life seems to build on autobiographical cartoonists as they get older and realize that the lives of most people who...

INTERVIEW: Box Brown Talks About Andy Kaufman’s Wrestling Fetishes and More in Newest Graphic...

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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, full-length graphic novels. Due to his thorough investigative work, Box...

Exploring Climate Change & Migrant Detention in Sophie Yanow, Iona Fox and Tings Chak’s...

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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 in the days leading up to President Trump's withdrawal from...

Reviews: Three thought-provoking new releases from Retrofit

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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 grace. That’s what Landry has achieved, a post-apocalyptic meditation on...

The TCAF Interviews – Alabaster Pizzo on Sequential Comics, Colours & Online Reviews

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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 the creators of comic books in their broad and diverse...

Review – I Thought YOU Hated ME by MariNaomi: Longevity of friendship

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 MariNaomi’s latest comic is a fascinating story of friendship spanning decades. Published by the consistently excellent publisher Retrofit Comics, I Thought YOU Hated ME retraces the friendship of Mirabai and Mari and moves from...

Review: Bernadou, Varela, Mendes deliver three strong works

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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 — symbolically presented as a continual act of nursing with her...

Review: 5 comics that grabbed my attention this week

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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 is going to be as varied as the individuals tackling...

Review: Leela Corman connects the emotional and intellectual dots

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  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 line work, or muddy comic chimeras made up of both...

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