Tag: Fantagraphics
Review: Blow your mind with ‘Starseeds 2’
In an era when conspiracy abounds, especially on the right with Pizzagate, crisis actors, chemtrails, and, of course, lizard people but also anti-vaxxers, and when so-called woo takes front and center in popular explorations...
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Charles Glaubitz’s celestial strangeness returns in ‘Starseeds 2’
In the first volume of his cosmic epic, Charles Glaubitz laid out an onslaught of universe-shattering conspiracy weirdness that helped readers transcend the state of mind they accept as living in reality and accept...
Review: A man and his weaknesses drifting in ‘The Sea’
Getting old comes with several features, some of them obvious but many of them not. One of the most alarming is the loss of identity in regard to other people. You might still know...
Emil Ferris wins the Fauve D’Or for My Favorite thing is Monsters
It capped a great year for women cartoonists.
A Year of Free Comics: Julian Glander’s Sherbet Shaped World
He's got a game coming out on Steam next month and a collection from Fantagraphics in April.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Charles Forsman and Max de Radiguès team-up for ‘Hobo Mom’
On the shelves January 22 from Fantagraphics
Review – The Disappointment of Roman Muradov’s Vanishing Act
The Disappointment of Roman Muradov's Vanishing Act
INDIE VIEW: True tales of the border, true parables of the monkey planet, and...
Reviewed: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong, POTA: Visionaries by Dana Gould & Chad Lewis, The Scar by Andrea Ferraris & Reno Chiocca
Review: Crisis on infinite comics pages in Olivier Schrauwen’s ‘Parallel Lives’
In Parallel Lives, Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen presents multiple versions of himself across the space-time continuum and well into dimensions that are untraceable in any normal sense, and he does so in a delivery...
INDIE VIEW: Comics history, record collecting, and the punkest punk in the school
Memorabilia
By Sergio Ponchione
Fantagraphics Books
Italian cartoonist Ponchione has concocted a unique hybrid designed to highlight his own creative strengths while honoring those who have influenced him. Less a story than a meditation, Ponchione chronicles snatches...
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.
Charles Forsman’s Netflix lightning strikes twice with ‘I Am Not Okay With This’
One of the biggest surprise Netflix hits of 2018 came from comics but not of the superhero variety. The widely-acclaimed series The End of the Fucking World, which was nominated for a BAFTA and...
