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Kickstarter Feature: 2dcloud’s Summer 2017 Collection
One of the things I love about the small press comics scene is its vibrancy. There are so many vital cartoonists making work that is mind-altering and life changing. I’ve read and reviewed books this year that have made my head spin. I’ve read comics that have changed the way I think, comics that have…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: The Complete List
Individual Write-ups: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Full List Ley Lines #14: Skin to Skin – Jia Sung (Czap Books & Grindstone Comics, 2018) Cry – Yang Cong (Paradise Systems, 2018) We Come From A Desert – Gloria Rivera (self-published, 2017) Fluorescent Mud – Eli Howey (2dcloud, 2018) Bad Friends – Ancco (Drawn &…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: Part 3
Welcome back, dear reader! Hopefully you’ve had a good weekend and are ready to jump back into the Comics that Challenged Me in 2018 – if this is your first look at my annual year-end wrap up, please head back over to parts 1 and 2 to check the first 10 entries in the list.…
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Review: Fluorescent Mud by Eli Howey
Comics is a medium ripe for the exploration of the intersection between lived experience and mental health conditions. Eli Howey starts down this well-worn path, but quickly steps onto fresh ground with Fluorescent Mud, a recent release from Chicago-based art comics publisher 2dcloud. Fluorescent Mud is 112 pages of watercolor and gouache comics that focuses…
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Review: By Monday I’ll Be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage by Laura Lannes
Part of my goal for these next few weeks are to get back to some comics I read in 2017 and early 2018 but didn’t properly evaluate. For the next few weeks I will be trying to get in some writing I’ve been putting off over the last few months. October and November were hard…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2017: The Complete List
Here’s the complete list of comics that challenged me in 2017. You can find links to the write ups for the list below: | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Full List | What is a Glacier?, Sophie Yanow, Retrofit Comics River Sonnet, Madeleine Witt, self-published Anti-Gone, Connor Williamson,…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2017: Part 4
Today is the final installment of a four part list of comics that challenged me in 2017. Here are links to the first part of the list, the second, and the third. The full list will be published shortly after this post goes live. Links to the rest of the list: | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Full List | I’m…
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Comics That Challenged Me In 2017: Part 3
Today is part 3 of a 4 part list of comics that challenged me in 2017. Here’s a link to the first part of the list and here’s the link to the second. This part of the list has a few more books I’ve already reviewed, but part of the reason I reviewed them was because…
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Quick Picks #8 – Mágan, Martinez, Porcellino, Smoke Signal
Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of zines that have been on my mind recently: A Friend (mini-kuš #56) by Andrés Magán At this point in my life I feel like I shouldn’t be so surprised with the great talent…
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Review: NOW #1, edited by Eric Reynolds
This article was originally published at Your Chicken Enemy. I’ve been waiting for the release of NOW #1 since it was announced in May. At the closure of Eric Reynold’s last anthology project, MOME, I was still reading manga and whatever shitty graphic novels were thrown my way by well-meaning college buddies. I hadn’t figured…