Tag: European Comics
REVIEW: Blacksad: They All Fall Down is a stellar look at art, unions, and...
Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido take on political killings and Shakespeare in the Park.
REVIEW: Jakub Topor’s NATIONALIST LOVE is a riot
Nationalist Love is a genuinely funny story in the vein of Mel Brooks that mocks the inherent absurdity of hatred.
REVIEW: Black Girl Magic shines in Lupano & Fert’s WHITE ALL AROUND
Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert's WHITE ALL AROUND tells the real-life story of the Canterbury Female Boarding School, one of the first schools to educate Black girls in the United States.
Brubaker and Phillips kick off new book series with RECKLESS in December
It's about a private eye in 80s LA.
REVIEW: In KARMEN, meet your new favorite Manic Pixie Death Girl
Comics do not lack for fun, female reapers -- and Karmen is the new girl.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: An extended first look at the sensational MONSTER ALLERGY, VOL. 3: THE...
Who — or what — is Charlie, and why can he see monsters just like Zick?
INTERVIEW: Sébastien Samson went the distance for MY NEW YORK MARATHON
French cartoonist Sébastien Samson's graphic novel about running in the New York Marathon shows the universal language of the graphic novel.
SDCC ’18: The Diverse Breadth of European Comics for American Librarians & Audiences
Exploring what European comics offer for American readers
Statix Week: Exclusive Preview of Elric: Ruby Throne Deluxe Edition
Elric of Melniboné is one of the better-known swords and sorcery characters to not be created by Tolkien or George RR Martin, highly respected as a major influence on fantasy literature. Now one of...
MoCCA Festival ‘ 17 announces programming
This year's MoCCA Festival is coming in a few weeks, April 1-2, with guests Gene Luen Yang, Blutch, Becky Cloonan and more. And the programming, curated by Bill Kartalopoulos, has just been released. You...
Review: You’ll want to visit ‘The Obscure Cities’
The second English language volume in French/Belgian team Benoit Peeters and François Schuiten's The Obscure Cities series, this was recently revived through a Kickstarter campaign by Alaxis Press, but IDW has partnered with them to complete the...
Review: Baltic anthology š! #23 offers big art in a small package
The Balkan comics anthology š! from kuš! is one of the more challenging delights of the comics world, grafting the sensibility of a contemporary art gallery onto the comics page. It regularly presents challenging and edgy work, often abstract, but with enough show of personality that you can see these are the works of real humans, and it comes in a striking mini-digest format that evokes Little Big Books, adding to its appeal as an object to display.