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Review: Apartment Hunting by Alison Wilgus
Alison Wilgus sent over a copy of her latest comic, Apartment Hunting, a full color 17 page fantasy comic book about Hanne, an apartment hunter in a fantasy world where apartments are giant boxy looking emu-like birds. Along for the ride is a young couple, Jokum and Vivi, who are using Hanne’s service to find…
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Review: An Entity Observes All Things by Box Brown
An Entity Observes All Things is 152 pages of perfect bound science fiction short stories, some of which have been published previously as mini comics (including New Physics, a review of which you can find here). The collection uses a limited color palette; each story uses 3-4 tones, mostly block primary colors, with some lavender and fuchsia…
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Review: mini kuš! #33 – BFF by Marie Jacotey
Kuš! komiksi sent over a new set of minis in mid-April, and I’m just now getting around to reading them. I’m running quite a bit behind – I haven’t even gotten to most of my TCAF haul yet. This latest batch has some intriguing work, including BFF by Marie Jacotey. Like all mini kuš, BFF is a 28…
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Quick Picks #3 – Bugs and TCAF
Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of books I’ve been thinking about over the last two weeks. Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler A recent release from First Second, Last of the Sandwalkers features a family of extraordinary beetles as they…
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Review: Mowgli’s Mirror by Olivier Schrauwen
One of the first books to be sent out as part of RetrofitComics 2015 subscription is Olivier Schrauwen’s Mowgli’s Mirror, a book previously published in both Spanish and French. Clocking in at 44 pages and at a BD-sized 10×12”, the book feels more substantial than previous Retrofit floppy comics, which have all been lovely…
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Review: Vortex by William Cardini
I’m still working through a giant stack of 2014 books – themore I get through, the more I realize how far behind I am. The good news is that there are plenty of good 2014 comics I haven’t gotten to yet and one I recently read is still stuck in my craw. Part of Sparkplug Books…
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Review: Rough Age by Max de Radiguès
Earlier last year I took some time to review Max de Radiguès Bastard #1 from Oily Comics. I liked the comic’s flow and Radiguès’ delicate line. Thankfully in 2014 we got a bit more of his work from One Percent Press, a collection of the 2009-2010 L’âge dur, translated as Rough Age. The comic has…
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Review: Nothing Whatsoever All Out in the Open by Akino Kondoh
It seems like it has been a whole lifetime ago, but once during the middle of the worst of the economic downturn, Top Shelf Comics put together a 400-page anthology of 10 years worth of alternate comics from the AX magazine. Akino Kondoh contributed two short stories for the anthology as well as its cover.…
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Quick Picks #2
Quick Picks is an occasionally published feature of a set of three microreviews of stuff I’ve read the past two weeks. I’m still working through my stack of minis, which includes some micropublisher work, a few subscriptions, and even a Kickstarter project or two. Bastard #1, by Max de Radiguès Max de Radiguès is kicking…
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Review: QCHQ by Jordan Speer
Jordan Speer’s QCHQ from Space Face Books looks relatively strange and uninviting – its fluorescent coloring, relative lack of structure, and unique illustration style would have likely caught my eye at a convention but I doubt I would have purchased a copy. However, being part of a subscription means getting every book a publisher puts out, which…
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Review: Nu #1, by Sacha Goerg
I’m slowly but surely getting caught up on purchases from the past 3 months, and part of the catch up game is digging into snakeoily’s Summer 2014 subscription bundle. This set comes with three 5″X7″ comics, one of which is Nu #1 by Sacha Goerg . The Oily Comics edition has compiled the first three minis…
