Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text
This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and others, is like...
Review: mini kuš! are diverse, challenging, exciting
An off-shoot from the Latvian anthology š!, mini kuš! is a series of short single works, released in blocks of four as standalones. As always, this latest batch is a mix of bizarre and somber, outrageous...
Review: Michael DeForge’s ‘Big Kids’ tells us something about ourselves
Millennials are often portrayed by the older generation - my own, to be clear - as a generation of victims. Like most cross-generational proclamations, this is a self-righteous pile of bull built from Gen...
Review: New York Review of Books’ new comics line is off to an amazing...
It was a fantastic day for artful, intelligent comics when the New York Review of Books added comics to its publishing line. The focus so far is on making obscure graphic novels available again, and the March...
Review: Roman Muradov’s ‘The End Of A Fence’ is cryptic, but beautiful
Immensely talented Russian illustrator Roman Muradov has quickly established himself as one of the most complex cartoonists around, both visually and narratively. In Muradov’s hands, the simplest fable can become a massively abstracted exercise...
Review: ‘The Tipping Point’ unites science fiction themes with human psychology
Part of the celebration of 40 years of international publisher Humanoids, this anthology gathers some great talent to explore the idea of forks in the roads, those moments of life discovery that are like Schrodinger’s...
Review: Tommi Musturi shows that hope isn’t easy
Finnish cartoonist Tommi Musturi’s The Book Of Hope is as mysterious and elusive as the human being it examines. Set in a family cottage following retirement, Musturi settles into his narrator position calmly in...
Review: Julia Wertz’s thoughtful and healing style of self-deprecation
Julia Wertz’s Eisner-nominated Drinking At The Movies, originally from 2010 but here with a handsome reissue from Koyama Press, is renowned for its humorous self-deprecating pile-on. At its root is the suggestion that beating...
Review: Nick Drnaso gives us 2016’s first great work with ‘Beverly’
Nick Drnaso’s fictional world is a particularly joyless one where even coming together doesn’t much help the human condition. It might even make things worse. As depicted in the Drnasoverse, each human has their...
Daniel Clowes remembers Alvin Buenaventura
Two important links about the late Alvin Buenaventura, the esteemed art comix publisher. His great friends Daniel Clowes has a touching remembrance at The Comics Reporter:
Alvin Buenaventura was the most important person in...
RIP Alvin Buenaventura
Over the weekend news of Alvin Buenaventura's passing was confirmed. Buenaventura was 40 and as the publisher of first Buenaventura Press then Pigeon Press was one of the indie publishers who helped change the...
Review: The Red Drip Of Courage distills Stephen Crane to a cartoon essence
You can go for years reading comics and come upon plenty of bizarre works, but at least understand where these are coming from. It’s more rare to hit on one that are more confounding,...
