Tag: art comix
INDIE VIEW: Mysterious titles from Europe Comics and Birdcage Bottom and a wacky They...
Aldo by Yannick Pelegrin
Europe Comics
What is going on with Aldo? He says he is immortal, having lived for 300 years, but sometimes his memory is sketchy after all that time, and he is stricken...
Interview: M. Dean still really likes The Carpenters, but she’s got it under control
In cartoonist M. Dean’s recent book from Fantagraphics, I Am Young, she traces moments in the lives of her characters through the music that defines those moments and sometimes captures the passage of time....
INDIE VIEW: From monkeys and men to myths and marks
Mini Kuš! #69: Maud
By Marlene Krause
Kuš Komiksi
This recent entry in the long series of wildly inventive and artistically-experimental little booklets from Latvia takes on the life of tattooed woman Maud Wagner, who became a...
Interview: Jim Woodring on working with Jack Kirby, having visions and making comics
James Romberger and Jim Woodring in conversation - plus a Comic Arts Brooklyn report.
Review: Broken souls, bloody noses, and activism in ‘Flem’
Brussels-based and Montreal-born cartoonist R. Rosen makes her graphic novel debut with Flem, a tale of psychological distress, self-destruction, and political activism that casts a sympathetic view towards all three, but not without a...
Review: The dark and charming topsy-turvy Paris of ‘Alas’
Anytime I encounter a story with animals dominating the world in an aggressive stance against primitive humans, I can’t help but compare it to the two gold standards of my childhood, Planet of the...
Review: The thrilling darkness of Rachael Ball’s ‘Wolf’
Everyone knows about the wider mythologies that creep their way into childhood, everything from Bigfoot to Slender Man that infects young brains in a way that the most fantastic fictions mingle with the drudgery...
Review: Mortality from all sides in ‘In The Future, We Are Dead’
Death is a multi-faceted subject and German cartoonist Eva Müller’s In The Future We Are Dead gives it the treatment it deserves. Müller comes at the subject from a number of vantage points that range...
Review: Different sides of empowerment in ‘Terrible Means’ and ‘A City Inside’
Terrible Means is a prequel to B. Mure’s Ismyre book from a couple years ago, but you don’t need to have read the previous book to understand it. As the book begins, there is...
Review: In ‘Fluorescent Mud’ and ‘John, Dear’ it’s not all in the characters’ heads
Two new books from Retrofit/Big Planet use the comics form to meditate on the psychological overtaking the physical, both with strong executions in different styles.
Reading Eli Howey’s Fluorescent Mud is like wandering through someone...
Review – Julia Gfrörer’s Laid Waste is a Hopefully Pessimistic Read
The moment that affected me the most in Julia Gfrörer's incredibly bleak comic Laid Waste happens after a group of children are seen carrying on duties at the family farm. They milk the cows,...
Review: Music as markers in ‘I Am Young’
Through the years, one thing that has consistently figured into the teenage remembrances of people I’ve known is music. We might have had completely different lives in completely different places, but everyone exhibits musical...
