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INDIE VIEW: From monkeys and men to myths and marks

12/26/2018 4:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

INDIE VIEW: From monkeys and men to myths and marks

Mini Kuš! #69: Maud By Marlene Krause Kuš Komiksi This recent entry in the long series of wildly inventive and artistically-experimental little booklets from Latvia takes on the life of tattooed woman Maud Wagner, who became a sideshow attraction around the turn of the century. Wagner was originally a trapeze artist until she met tattooed […]

Filed Under: Art Comix, Comics, Indie Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: autobiography, biography, Cailtin Cass, Kilgore Books, kus komiksi, Marlene Krause, Mike Freiheit, mini kus, nature, South Africa, travelogue

Review: ‘Pyongyang’ shows North Korea is the same as it ever was

12/11/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: ‘Pyongyang’ shows North Korea is the same as it ever was

I feel like over the last decade, the travel graphic novel has become crowded with pedestrian work. The form has taken on the role of rite of passage for young cartoonists who are interested in non-fiction work and decide to plan travels around a creative cartooning purpose. It’s not that I think they shouldn’t pursue […]

Filed Under: Books, Comics, D&Q, Graphic Novels, Indie Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Drawn and Quarterly, Guy Delisle, North Korea, political comics, travelogue

Review: ‘Algeria Is Beautiful Like America’ and the complications of family lore

10/16/2018 5:00 pm by John Seven

Review: ‘Algeria Is Beautiful Like America’ and the complications of family lore

I’m going to admit to being embarrassingly ignorant on the subject of Algeria before reading Algeria Is Beautiful Like America, at best understanding the basic colonial relationship it had with France, and the continued tension because of that. While the book doesn’t offer a detailed history of the situation, it does hold the reader’s hand […]

Filed Under: Comics, Graphic Novels, Indie Comics, Reviews, Small Presses Tagged With: Algeria, autobiography, France, Lion Forge, Mahi Grand, Olivia Burton, travelogue

A Year of Free Comics: Travelogue by Aatmaja Pandya is a perfect fantasy comic

04/08/2017 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A Year of Free Comics: Travelogue by Aatmaja Pandya is a perfect fantasy comic

It’s the Adventure Time era of indie comics, as quirkily drawn fantasies about cute folks having cute adventures dot the comics landscape. But then there’s Travelogue by Aatmaja Pandya, the kind of sweet, breathless, mysterious, all-heart comic that shows you how it is done. The set-up is pretty simple: Nana is a  little wizard, old […]

Filed Under: Free Comics, Top News, Webcomics Tagged With: Aatmaja Pandya, Fantasy Comics, Mini Comics, travelogue

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