Tag: SelfMadeHero
Review: Technology as the agent of change, good or bad, in ‘I Feel Machine’
In some ways aiming to be the Black Mirror of graphic anthologies, I Feel Machine features six cartoonists each exploring the intersection between humanity and technology, and how humans change because of their encounters...
Review: Folk horror meets social satire in ‘Lip Hook’
Lip Hook takes some of the best conventions of the British folk horror genre and uses them to perfect effect. Outsiders becoming stranded in a remote village? Check. Pagan worship amongst the populace? Check....
Review: The skewed colors of manhood in ‘Tumult’
The noir genre has one dynamic at its center that repeats so often it’s hard to tell if it’s a cliche or an archetype — a man searching for something more in life encounters...
Review: Javi Rey’s ‘Out in the Open’ is a quiet, dark coming of age...
From Moses to Mad Max, wandering in arid desert lands evokes a journey for self, for destiny, and of course for survival. Usually it marks a transitional place in the wanderer’s life — think...
Review: The mind-bending wild west meditation of ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’
In Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang’s The Smell of Starving Boys, the words “virgin land” are used several times to describe America’s West. The idea is that this area is untouched, but photographer...
Review: Living the dream in ‘Stardust Nation’
This mysterious work adapted by Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy from her own story captures the dynamic between two advertising men, Tom and Nikos, who have some bond between them that seems to be melding who...
Review: A Kafkaesque coming-of-age-tale by Pieter Coudyzer
Walking a line between a depressing coming of age tale and a Kafkaesque expression of emotional hurt manifesting itself physically, Outburst ends up twisting both of them together into a probably inevitable horror finale....
Preview: Josephine Baker by Muller and Bouquet captures a whole era and a timeless...
If you're looking for a real-life badass heroine, you won't find a better one than Josephine Baker.
The Beat’s Best Comics of 2016
Featuring Beat staff members and special contributions from some of the best cartoonists of the year. It was a wild year but there were some good comics to keep us entertained and thinking.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/14/16: “All are equal at a comic con”
§ Nice Art: It seems the comics world has come to a standstill for some reason. So here's a preview of a 2017 graphic novel: Gauguin: The Other World by Fabrizio Dori, part of...
Review: Two successful bios of very different men
It’s always a pleasure when a new graphic novel biography comes out about someone I know absolutely nothing about, and I certainly had no clue about the existence of Roger Casement. Fionnuala Doran's The...
Comic Arts Brooklyn Debuts Part 1: punks, witches, cats, 3D Jim Woodring, more
This weekend it's Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg and here's a look at the books that will be debuting. Thanks to all the contributing publishers and cartoonists for supplying the info and lightening our wallets.
Because there were so many new and exciting books I'm splitting this into two parts. Look for part two tomorrow!
