EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Charles Glaubitz’s celestial strangeness returns in ‘Starseeds 2’
In the first volume of his cosmic epic, Charles Glaubitz laid out an onslaught of universe-shattering conspiracy weirdness that helped readers transcend the state of mind they accept as living in reality and accept...
INDIE VIEW: Three tales of the macabre with a higher purpose than chills
The Daughters of Salem, The Freak, and Misty Vol. 3 reviewed
Review: Julie Delporte continues to convey the intangible and the profound in ‘This Woman’s...
Julie Delporte's work is raw, and she is still impeccable at laying out an unmappable thought process that feels like a profound journey into the unknown.
Review: The unspoken and unseen take center stage in ‘Kingdom’
Jon McNaught's Kingdom captures the passive-aggressive clash between humankind and nature, and why it's probably okay that they clash.
Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’
In Parallel Lives, Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen presents multiple versions of himself across the space-time continuum and well into dimensions that are untraceable in any normal sense, and he does so in a delivery...
INDIE VIEW: Mysterious titles from Europe Comics and Birdcage Bottom and a wacky They...
Aldo by Yannick Pelegrin
Europe Comics
What is going on with Aldo? He says he is immortal, having lived for 300 years, but sometimes his memory is sketchy after all that time, and he is stricken...
Interview: M. Dean still really likes The Carpenters, but she’s got it under control
In cartoonist M. Dean’s recent book from Fantagraphics, I Am Young, she traces moments in the lives of her characters through the music that defines those moments and sometimes captures the passage of time....
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...
Interview: Jim Woodring on working with Jack Kirby, having visions and making comics
James Romberger and Jim Woodring in conversation - plus a Comic Arts Brooklyn report.
Review: Broken souls, bloody noses, and activism in ‘Flem’
Brussels-based and Montreal-born cartoonist R. Rosen makes her graphic novel debut with Flem, a tale of psychological distress, self-destruction, and political activism that casts a sympathetic view towards all three, but not without a...
Review: The dark and charming topsy-turvy Paris of ‘Alas’
Anytime I encounter a story with animals dominating the world in an aggressive stance against primitive humans, I can’t help but compare it to the two gold standards of my childhood, Planet of the...
Review: The thrilling darkness of Rachael Ball’s ‘Wolf’
Everyone knows about the wider mythologies that creep their way into childhood, everything from Bigfoot to Slender Man that infects young brains in a way that the most fantastic fictions mingle with the drudgery...
