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Transmissions from: SPX 2015
It’s a week out from SPX 2015 and I’ve had a chance to compile my thoughts from last weekend’s show. Overall, I had a wonderful time, probably the best time I’ve had at a comics show yet. Having a majority of the people you are interacting with staying at the same place is pretty unique…
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Review: Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly (Hartley Lin)
Ethan Rilly’s latest issue of Pope Hats is my first interaction with the long-running series, and it seems to be a good jumping in point – instead of continuing the narrative from the first three issues of Pope Hats, Rilly fills the fourth with a series of short stories in 32 pages of full color,…
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I was planning on keeping this piece wrapped up under lock and key until folks could read it in my new zine, Selections #2, which will debut at SPX, but I think that it might be useful to folks who are still making buylists for the show. Hundreds if not thousands of books will be…
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Review: BASELINE BLVD by Emi Gennis
We’re nearing the end of summer, which means SPX is only a few weeks away. I’m working through books that I received early Spring, which, dear reader, is only going to get worse when I haul home all the books I know I’ll eventually buy at SPX. Emi Gennis sent over a copy of her…
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Episode232-1 sequentialstatement: Episode #2: Hot Archie?? :3 Alex and Nick talk SPACE 2015, including a really strange run to buy supplies; Music by Today’s Man. Reviews of: Archie #1 & #2 – Art by Fiona Staples, Written by Mark Waid, Colors by Andre Szymanowicz w/ Jen Vaughn, Letters by Jack Morelli The End of Summer…
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Review: Unico, by Osamu Tezuka
Unico was one of the first books published through Digital Manga Publishing’s Tezuka Kickstarter program, and with its recent reprint from DMP in their Storm Fairy Kickstarter, I thought it would be reasonable to revisit a review of Unico I wrote in 2013. The book, as a print object, is one of DMP’s best to date; I’ve complained about…
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Manga is a tricky type of comic. There’s a higher barrier to entry due to the flipped pages, cultural cues that may not be easily understood or explained, and there’s a lot of chaff available on the market. It’s hard to know where to start. In this on and off again feature, I’ll be presenting…
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Review: Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater by A. Degen Previous work by A. Degen has shown up on my 2014 “Comics that Challenged Me” list, and so when Koyama Press announced it would publish Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater as part of its Spring 2015 lineup, I was immediately…
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Your 2015 SPX Nominees (And a Few Thoughts From Me)
This year’s Ignatz Nominees were announced on Tuesday, and a large majority of the books selected this year are books I’ve reviewed. The Ignatz awards are juried by cartoonists and critics, this year by Lamar Abrams, Cara Bean, Robyn Chapman, Sophie Goldstein, and Corrine Mucha. But attendees are the people who vote for the winning…
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Review: Weeping Flower Grows in Darkness by Kris Mukai I was delighted by Kris Mukai’s The Extremely Small Witch Bibi, Who Lives in Mrs. Sen’s Garden (my review of which you can find here), and I’ve been sitting on a copy of Mukai’s latest work, Weeping Flower, Grows in Darkness (Weeping Flower hereon in) for…
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Spreads: Fütchi Perf by Kevin Czap I recently received my copy of Kevin Czap’s new book, Fütchi Perf. I can’t be an unbiased reviewer of this book (I wrote a pull quote for the Czap Books webpage) and I won’t be writing a full review for Fütchi Perf. But I think that you, dear reader, will…
