Review: Assessing the damage in ‘Roughneck’
Jeff Lemire has become quite a prolific comics creator since 2008. He’s largely devoted himself to the varying forms of genre fiction that comics offers, both his own creations, like Sweet Tooth or The...
01/06/17: Small Press and Indie Comics News Galore
§ Hi everyone, Philippe here with some micro press, small press and indie comics links and news.
§ Nice art: The above image is from Xia Gordon, a phenomenal cartoonist from Orlando (now based in NYC)....
How a comics marriage broke up over financial stress
Just to stay on this cheerful topic while everyone is so happy to be back at work after the holiday, Maggie Umber, cartoonist and co-founder of 2dcloud has a very honest post called Getting Divorced...
Anders Nilsen new book Tongues looks spectacular
Anders Nilsen has been a mainstay of the indie comics world for a while, gaining huge acclaim with Big Questions, a massive rumination on the meaning of life seen via a flock of birds. The books...
Koyama Press’s Fall line-up includes Willumsen, Kyle, Lee, Freibert, GG and Foster-Dimino
Catching up a bit here on the news, and Koyama Press announced their fall line-up filled with work by some of today's most exciting cartoonists including Connor Willumsen, Patrick Kyle, Hannah K. Lee, Sophia Foster-Dimino,...
Review: ‘The Interview’ examines the nature of meaning
I write a lot about contemporary art, and one of the areas that I find so many people get hung-up about is meaning. That is, the specific meaning of a specific piece of art,...
Review: Cathy Malkasian’s latest dark parable ‘Eartha’
You’re not likely to come out of a Cathy Malkasian book without being spooked by something you can’t quite put your finger on even though it lingers and gets you a little bit down....
Reviews: Two dark underbellies come out in daylight
Kus Mono #3: An Exorcism by Theo Ellsworth
An Exorcism begins simply enough with a man lying in a bed that is walking away, escorted by a bunch of tiny demonic pigs, but once a...
Review: You’ve got to fight for your right to make art!
Though it’s tempting to pronounce the atmosphere in James Albon’s Her Bark And Her Bite as retro or even nostalgic, timeless might be the better word. It pulls from a fantasy version of an...
Review: Max Andersson unpacks a family nightmare in ‘The Excavation’
Underneath the surreal nightmare presented by Swedish cartoonist Max Andersson and despite the dream logic to so much of the action in The Excavation, there’s a truthful core that many of us can take to heart....
Review: Ley Lines #9: Enter, Holy Pilgrim – Laila Milevski’s Uncertain Spiritual Quest
In 2008, I attempted the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostella. I'm not a particularly religious or spiritual person so the draw was in the experience of the road, the people and the vistas. The...
Review: Emil Ferris beckons the monsters into the light of day
It’s fair to say that Emil Ferris’ sprawling My Favorite Thing Is Monsters — volume one of a two volume work — came out of absolutely nowhere for many people. Ferris is a Chicago-based...
