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Review: Berserker #1, ed. Tom Oldham and Jamie Sutcliffe
(Update 2/25/18: I have been notified by Tom Oldham that all of the stories told in Berserker are are not fiction, but are entirely true. Please excuse this oversight in the review below. Thanks!) Breakdown sent a copy of their new sci-fi anthology Berserker in the Fall last year, and I’ve been slowly piecing my…
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Comics That Challenged Me In 2017: Part 3
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Review: The Fever Closing by Liam Cobb
It’s hard to stay current with all of the independent comics scenes across the English-speaking world, but I have recently been keeping track of Liam Cobb, a UK-based cartoonist whose stock seems to be on the rise. Cobb has done quite a few self-published books over the last two years, but The Fever Closing is…
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Review: Joyride by Zoë Taylor
There’s been an upswing in what I might call “lo-fi comics”that I’ve noticed recently on tumblr and instagram, and Joyride, Zoë Taylor’s latest major book from Breakdown Press, seems to epitomize that movement. Taylor had a selection in the comics anthology DÔME printed by Breakdown Press and Lagon Revue at Angouleme last year, but Taylor is…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2016: Part 4
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2016: Part 3
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Review: Generous Bosom Part One by Conor Stechschulte
We’re getting towards the end of the year, and I have been thinking about books that I’ve really enjoyed in 2015. One of those was the first issue of Conor Stechschulte’s Generous Bosom, a book that likely made a few 2014 best-of lists. 2014 seemed like a breakout year for Stechschulte with the release…
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Review: Mutiny Bay by Antoine Cossé 2014 has been something of a breakout year for Breakdown Press. The London-based micropress has published an expansive slate of challenging and ambitious comics, including the work of Antoine Cossé. Mutiny Bay is a historical drama and a retelling of the 1520 Easter day mutiny on Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish-backed…
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Linkblogging #2
