Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’
This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have some bond between them that seems to be melding who...
Review: Ulli Lust’s ‘Voices In The Dark’ is a walk on the worst side
The offerings from New York Review Comics have revealed one challenging work after another with curation of truly elevated works, but as impressive as they have all been, I don’t think any of them...
Review – Loneliness in the North in Jon Iñaki’s Yukon Ghost
The Canadian North is a vast, cold and isolated places at times. It can be a tough place for the soul, it seems to make the edges rough and each cut, a little deeper....
Review: Looking for truth in ‘Crawl Space’
I have a feeling that quite a lot of us would rather be somewhere else these days. It wouldn’t be so bad to be trapped in a place that was separate from the logic...
Interview – Xia Gordon’s Upcoming Abstract Comics with 2Dcloud
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for its 2017 summer collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. They’re a publisher from...
Watching the Crowdfunding: A New Critical Chips and 2dcloud’s Summer Season 2017
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 summer collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher from which you never...
08/01/2017: Small Press & Indie Comics Galore
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§ Zviane contributed a wonderful illustration for the month of August in a 2017 calendar and it is beautiful. Perhaps it's the weather, or the fact I'm going camping next week, but this...
Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer
Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting both of them together into a probably inevitable horror finale....
01/07/2017: Canada 150 Special: Small Press & Indie Comics
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§ For this monthly "Small Press & Indie Comics Galore", we'll focus more than usual on Canadian content to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary! My small contribution to the event.
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§ Nice art:
Let's start with Montreal...
Reviews: Three thought-provoking new releases from Retrofit
Shit and Piss by Tyler Landry
Imagine the comic that not only lives up to that title, but manages to do so with a poetic grace. That’s what Landry has achieved, a post-apocalyptic meditation on...
Review: The quiet poetry of Chaboute’s ‘Alone’
It’s 84 pages in before the subject of French graphic novelist Chaboute's largely silent work Alone finally appears, and even then, it’s only in the form of a hand dropping food to a goldfish in...
Tonight and this weekend to do: CAKE
As always there are about four gabillion pop culture events this weekend, but this weekend it's CAKE (Chicago Alternative Comics Expo) in Chicago, kicking off TONIGHT with a couple of excellent events:
Friday, June 9
CAKE...
