Tag: Fantagraphics
Review: ‘Mort Cinder’ is a pioneer of the macabre
Mort Cinder — the character, not the book — offers more questions than answers, but that’s how it should be. Mort Cinder, the book, written by Argentinean journalist Hector Oesterheld and drawn by Uruguay-born...
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...
Interview: Nick Thorburn discovers the missing link between humans and penguins
Nick Thorburn is well-known for his work in music, less so for his comics. The Canadian cartoonist is the long-time vocalist for Islands, as well as a number of other music projects, like Human...
REVIEW: ‘Bastard’ features the world’s sweetest crime spree
In Bastard, Belgian cartoonist Max de Radigues presents one of the oddest crime partners you can imagine — mother and son. Well, not just mother and son, that’s not in itself odd, I guess,...
Review: Jim Broadbent’s ‘Dull Margaret’ is dark humanity distilled to its essence
Less a linear story than an intense incantation filtered through a fever dream, Dull Margaret is the work of British actor Jim Broadbent, his debut graphic novel in collaboration with artist Dix, who is best...
Fantagraphics Has a Huge Digital Comics Sale – My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Early...
And Krazy Kat... and Carl Barks... and Bill Mauldin...
SDCC ’18: INTERVIEW – Exploring the Depths of the Human Condition with NOAH VAN...
The most humane creator in cartooning talks about his Comic Con experience, upcoming works, and Limp Bizkit.
Review: ‘Song of Aglaia’ puts a complicated, heady feminist spin on tired old myths...
Taking the traditional tropes of myths and legends and turning them on their heads, Song of Aglaia has French cartoonist Anne Simon trace the fairy tale life of a water nymph as she finds herself...
Review: Gipi searches for humanity at the end of the world
In Gipi’s post-apocalyptic drama Land of the Sons, there’s a moment when a father laments whether he should reveal to his sons that dogs were once prized friends of humans to be cherished and...
Digital Comics Sale Roundup – Ant-Man, Jeff Lemire and Love & Rockets
A few things for the holiday break.
