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Review: Trying Not To Notice by Will Dinski
Trying Not To Notice is one of the final books to come out of 2dcloud’s Spring Collection and my first encounter with cartoonist and illustrator Will Dinski in long form. I read An Honest Performance in 2015, which was noticeable for its strong line and a sense that marks on the page were more instinctual than placed. Now Dinski…
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Review: Weakly Comics Xtra Large Annual, edited by Andrew Alexander, Max Huffman, and Jack Reese
I got a copy of the Weakly Comics Xtra Large Annual through Kickstarter this year. It was shipped out during the Spring, right before TCAF, and it ended up getting filed away for another time. That time, for me, was last week. The Kickstarter video for the campaign was a little weird, so it…
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Review: Golemchik by William Exley
I recently picked up another book from Nobrow Press’ 17×23 line. The series is a great introduction to new cartoonists, so I was pleasantly surprised with William Exley’s Golemchik, a modern take on the ancient golem story. In Golemchik, the main character Kevin is a little boy all alone as his friends go off to…
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Review: Be Good by John Martz
I reviewed Be Good for last year’s Selections #2, a zine of comics criticism I passed out at SPX 2015. Since then, Be Good has been nominated for an Ignatz award at SPX 2016. I also realized I never posted this original review to the website. The review as originally printed has been reformatted to meet…
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2016 Ignatz Nominees
Below are the 2016 Ignatz Award Nominees. The Ignatz ballot is taken up from all SPX attendees. In order to help you better decide your ballot as SPX comes up in less than a month, any reviews of nominated works are linked below for your convenience. This post will be updated to include any new reviews…
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Review: The Meaning of Life by Anja Wicki I picked up a few books from Matt Davis, owner/operator of Perfectly Acceptable Press, at TCAF this year, and I’ve recently gotten around to reading them. Anja Wicki’s The Meaning of Life is a 40 page pamphlet stitched book, red and blue risograph on cream colored paper. It’s…
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Review: Breaking Is Opening by Sab Meynert Sab Meynert sent over a copy of Breaking Is Opening earlier this year, and I’ve been so in awe of this book I’ve been putting off a review, trying desperately, foolishly, to come up with the perfect things to say. But I’m coming to terms with my procrastination…
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Review: Beverly by Nick Drnaso I’m trying to push through some writer’s block on a pile of newish comics. The first on the list is Beverly, the debut work of Chicago-based cartoonist Nick Drnaso. Beverly was published in the Spring by Drawn & Quarterly in trade paperback. There’s a sort of malaise to Beverly that…
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Review: Fourteen Euros at Primark by Sarah Bowie Sarah Bowie recently sent over a copy of her new comic Fourteen Euros at Primark , which debuted at ELCAF this year. This is the first work I’ve seen from Bowie, who is an illustrator, cartoonist, and cofounder of The Comics Lab in Dublin. The storytelling of Fourteen Euros…
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Comic Review: In The Sounds and Seas by Marnie Galloway
I’ve known One Peace books as a manga and light novel publisher for some time – they did recent reprints of Crayon Shin-Chan and are bringing the popular yuri series Maria Holic back to print after the demise of TokyoPop and CMX. They recently sent over a copy of Marnie Galloway’s first graphic novel In…
