A year of free comics – Mickey Zacchilli’s Space Academy 123
Mickey Zacchilli has been doing a daily comics trip called Space Academy 123 on Instagram for the past couple of weeks and it is fantastic so far. It’s a series of vignettes about characters dealing...
Interview – Maggie Umber on her Latest Graphic Novel, Owls, Research & Colours
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher...
2dcloud Launches Stellar Spring 2017 Crowdfunding Effort to Publish Gothic, Poetic and Owls Comics
Minnesota-based publisher 2dcloud has launched it’s quarterly crowdfunding campaign for it’s 2017 spring collection. 2dcloud has been using crowdfunding as a mechanism for pre-orders and to create curated book bundles. 2dcloud is a publisher...
Reviews: Martz, Toms, Booger portray different kinds of love
Burt’s Way Home by John Martz
This incredibly sweet story is aimed at kids, but its emotional depth will satisfy many adults. Burt lives with Lydia in a nondescript apartment at the bottom of a...
Micro-Press News: Ley Lines 2017 Line-up & INK BRICK Crowdfunding Campaign
Busy news day for alternative comics, two micro-press comics publisher announced their plans for 2017.
First up, Czap Books and Grindstone comics revealed the 2017 line-up of their joint publishing experiment Ley Lines. Ley Lines...
Review: Jillian Fleck’s bottomless pit of emotion
The most frequent bottomless thing that has popped up in my life is the idea of bottomless pits, which Lake Jehovah immediately made me think of. Even as a kid, I never thought of...
A year of free comics: Beanstalk by Jenn Liv – The gorgeous expansion of...
Jenn Liv’s Beanstalk is a wonderfully magical little comic. A woman sleeping in a field wakes up to discover a world wider and larger than she ever thought possible. It’s a gorgeous comic about...
Reviews: Gfrörer, Wiedeman, Gennis look to the past
Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer
This excruciatingly sad novella has Julia Gfrörer examining the horror of being a survivor, in a way that manages to be uplifting at the end, while not betraying the heaviness...
Review – Pow Pow Triple Review : Earthbound, Going Under & Art Wars
I’ve recently had the chance to interview Luc Bossé, the founder and editor of Montreal’s Pow Pow Press, about their work and their upcoming releases. They’ve recently released three books in English: Art Wars by...
Review: Bernadou, Varela, Mendes deliver three strong works
Canopy by Karine Bernadou
Bernadou’s excellent silent parable of what it’s like to be a woman out in the world follows Canopy from her childhood — symbolically presented as a continual act of nursing with her...
Review: Hard truths in ‘Soft City’
To take Soft City at face value, there are some very simple lessons to learn from Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner. Everything is the same. There is no one thing. Life is not an adventure. In...
Review: Cyril Pedrosa captures the hidden human web in Equinoxes
The girth of Cyril Pedrosa’s Equinoxes — 336 pages — implies narrative complication, but what unfolds is really as simple as the title suggests. An equinox is a matter of universal symmetry, of darkness...
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