INDIE VIEW: The playful pathos of KUSAMA: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Kusama: The Graphic Novel
By Elisa Macellari
Laurence King Publishing
I have, in passing, encountered photos of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and when that happened, did wonder about them, but I confess to never putting in the...
INDIE VIEW: Seeing through THE IMPENDING BLINDNESS OF BILLIE SCOTT
The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott
By Zoe Thorogood
Avery Hill Publishing
Is it art without humanity? That’s probably an unanswerable question and certainly, plenty of arguments exist that fall firmly on the side of “it doesn’t...
INDIE VIEW: PAUL AT HOME takes readers behind closed doors
Paul At Home
By Michel Rabagliati
Drawn and Quarterly
Quebecois cartoonist Michel Rabagliati has established a definite tone of the last couple decades that he’s produced his Paul series, but with Paul At Home, he’s disrupted this...
INDIE VIEW: The simple but not simplistic delights of PLANET PARADISE
Planet Paradise
By Jesse Lonergan
Image Comics
Sometimes little charmers sneak up on you.
These days, as I look through potential graphic novels to review, it feels like there are a lot of heavy offerings. And when I...
INDIE VIEW: Is PLUTOCRACY: CHRONICLES OF A GLOBAL MONOPOLY actually fiction?
Plutocracy: Chronicles of Global Monopoly
By Abraham Martinez
NBM
Human beings are imperfect creatures and it follows that their creations will be imperfect as well. Even the creations are perfect, they’ll develop flaws because of the imperfect...
INDIE VIEW: The powerful smallness of VICTORY POINT
Victory Point
By Owen D. Pomery
Avery Hill
Most people live small lives. By that, I’m not referring to the importance of the lives, but rather the visibility. These lives don’t broadcast or even scream. They don’t...
INDIE VIEW: A gentle push into politics in OKAY, UNIVERSE
Okay, Universe
Written by Valérie Plante
Illustrated by Delphie Côté-Lacroix
Drawn and Quarterly
With the subtitle “Chronicles of a Woman in Politics,” Okay, Universe in some ways inspires dread for the incoming reader — not because of expected...
INDIE VIEW: THOREAU AND ME talks through the end of the world
Thoreau and Me
By Cedric Taling
SelfMadeHero
If you want to feel angsty, we’re at a point in history when you can take your pick of disastrous circumstances to fret over or worse, devote a complete work...
INDIE VIEW: Life is filled with THE CONTRADICTIONS
The Contradictions
By Sophie Yanow
Drawn and Quarterly
For the past decade or so I’ve noticed a shift where the colloquial word styles of young people had started to sound like they were lifted from rambling, pot-infused...
INDIE VIEW: THE FLOOD THAT DID COME came just at the right time
The Flood That Did Come
By Patrick Wray
Avery Hill
In the ongoing quest to allow your brain to qualify a new thing you encounter by matching it up in some way with an old thing you...
INDIE VIEW: Is there safety in WOODS?
Woods
By Mike Freiheit
Birdcage Bottom Books
The times, they aren’t so great. You’re either living in terror of a corrupt, fascist president and pandemic that’s shut down the country, or you’re living in a rage because...
INDIE VIEW: Detecting the INVISIBLE DIFFERENCES
Invisible Differences
Story by Julie Dachez and Fabienne Vaslet
Adaptation and art by Mademoiselle Caroline
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Oni Press
Over the past several years I feel like I’ve seen a small but noticeable increase in comics about...
