INDIE VIEW: VISION can be deceiving
Vision
By Julia Gfrörer
Fantagraphics
This latest release from New Hampshire-based cartoonist Julia Gfrörer's Vision hearkens back to novels of romance and darkness like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, with perhaps a bit of Rebecca mixed in,...
INDIE VIEW: SUMMER SPIRIT is a harbinger of change
Summer Spirit
By Elizabeth Holleville
Translated by Amy Evans-Hill
NoBrow Press
Over the past decade or so, ghosts have really become a staple in comics aimed at girl readers of the middle school and high school demographic, appearing...
INDIE VIEW: You can’t avoid THE UNKNOWN
The Unknown
By Anna Sommer
Translated by Helge Dascher
Conundrum Press
There are many ways that people allow themselves to become victims of what they believe is fate and the probably the most common is inaction. In The...
INDIE VIEW: Gipi proposes ONE STORY for us all
One Story
By Gipi
Translated by Jamie Richards
Fantagraphics
How many old folks out there? I mean at least in your 50s. Have you ever had a conversation with someone 25 years younger where you realize that the...
INDIE VIEW: In THE MARCHENOIR LIBRARY less is infinitely more
The Marchenoir Library
By A. Degen
Secret Acres
The Marchenoir Library is an unusual graphic novel in that its story is not linear in a typical way — in fact, its story is not so much what’s...
INDIE VIEW: LANGOSH AND PEPPI FUGITIVE DAYS wanders through the Post-Soviet maze
Langosh and Peppi: Fugitive Days
By Veronica Post
Conundrum Press
There’s an allure to former Iron Curtain countries that is hard to put into words, but it has something to do with their strange existence as old...
INDIE VIEW: WINDOWS ON THE WORLD offers a view of America’s invisible people
Windows on the World
Written by Robert Mailer Anderson and Zack Anderson
Illustrated by Jon Sack
Fantagraphics
In many ways there’s never been a beginning and America has always been a place where the other is demoralized and...
INDIE VIEW: BIX blends jazz and despair
Bix
By Scott Chantler
Gallery 13
Among the jazz musicians who have endured to be placed in that form of legendary status that transcends the community of jazz enthusiasts and bursts into the wider world, Bix Beiderbecke...
INDIE VIEW: THE DAUGHTERS OF YS invigorates Breton folklore
The Daughters of Ys
Written by M.T. Anderson
Illustrated by Jo Rioux
First Second Books
The city of Ys is part of Breton folklore that may be familiar to some modern audiences as the focus of one of...
INDIE VIEW: I KNOW YOU RIDER explores reproducing and not
I Know You Rider
By Leslie Stein
Drawn and Quarterly
One of the aspects of Leslie Stein’s work that sets her apart from other autobiographical cartoonists is the visual one. Her art is unlike any other in...
INDIE VIEW: A GIFT FOR A GHOST is ethereal poetry
A Gift For A Ghost
By Borja Gonzalez
Translated by Lee Douglas
Abrams
From the moment I finished A Gift For A Ghost I knew it was different from most other graphic novels I read for one simple...
INDIE VIEW: PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK is a soused nightmare of absurd cruelty
Portrait of a Drunk
By Olivier Schrauwen, Florent Ruppert, and Jérôme Mulot
Fantagraphics
Like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel gone horribly wrong, Portrait of a Drunk dives headfirst into swashbuckling adventure, but with a focus on the...
