Review: ‘Idle Days’ gathers the darkness
In Idle Days, writer Thomas Desaulniers Brousseau and artist Simon Leclerc traverse the connection between personal psychological distress and the ghostly sins of the past, in a backdrop of world-shattering dread that, in many...
ADVANCE REVIEW: Revisiting Pepperland and Diving Beneath the Waves in our YELLOW SUBMARINE
Celebrating fifty years of the animated lever pullers with a new comic book adaptation from Bill Morrison!
Review: Jim Broadbent’s ‘Dull Margaret’ is dark humanity distilled to its essence
Less a linear story than an intense incantation filtered through a fever dream, Dull Margaret is the work of British actor Jim Broadbent, his debut graphic novel in collaboration with artist Dix, who is best...
Review – Where She Walks’ Incomplete Urban Fantasy
Where She Walks: A Canadian urban fantasy comic that's almost there
Review – Alexis Beauclair’s Vanishing Perspective is a Primer to Understanding Comics
Minimalistic comics to better understand comics!
Review: ‘Feast of Fields’ unleashes all the dimensions of emotion and memory at the...
Sean Karemaker created one of my favorite books of 2016, The Ghosts We Know, a dark autobiographical work that achieves a symbolic height as the psychological crashes into the recollections to create some otherworldly...
Review: Any of us could be ‘The Strange’
I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the anger directed toward undocumented immigrants, and the escalation of that topic hasn’t helped me parse the topic any better. I can understand if you...
Review: The gorgeous ‘A Sea of Love’ is both epic and intimate
Unfolding in total silence, from a script by Wilfrid Lupano, and with absolutely breathtaking art by Grégory Panaccione, A Sea of Love inserts broad strokes into very simple lives by portraying the slapstick, satirical...
Koyama Press to shut down in 2021
When folks speculate about which comics publisher will be the next to shut down, Koyama Press isn't among them because they are, simply, the best. But alas, it's been announced by publisher Annie Koyama...
ShortBox Partenering with US-Based White Squirrel for North American Distribution
ShortBox is setting foot in North America!
Review: Aaron Costain’s ‘Entropy’ suggests there might be too much to think about
Aaron Costain’s Entropy is the type of book that begs you to never give up on it. It’s built into the story itself, which follows a humanoid’s journey through a surrealistic fable as it...
Review: Gipi searches for humanity at the end of the world
In Gipi’s post-apocalyptic drama Land of the Sons, there’s a moment when a father laments whether he should reveal to his sons that dogs were once prized friends of humans to be cherished and...
