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Review: Shoplifter, by Michael Cho It seems like the last week of June is the week where I talk about books that focus on people who are displaced or struggling; on Monday I reviewed Noah Van Sciver’s Saint Cole, and today, Michael Cho’s debut graphic novel Shoplifter, a 96 page two-tone comic from Pantheon about…
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Review: LYDIAN, by Sam Alden Sam Alden is known for beautifully rendered graphite comics (for examples, check out my reviews of Alden’s Wicked Chicken Queen from Retrofit Books retrofitcomics and It Never Happened Again from Uncivilized Press uncivilizr ). But for a little over a year, Alden has been using low-resolution full-color pixel art as…
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Review: Saint Cole by Noah Van Sciver No singular artist captures the dysphoria of modern blue collar life like Noah Van Sciver. His latest book, Saint Cole, is 116 pages of black and white comics about a guy named Joe working as a server at a pizza chain. Joe is stuck in a service industry…
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Review: Black River by Josh Simmons Author’s note: The contents of this review may be triggering due to discussion of both physical and sexual violence. There’s been a “recent” uptick in post-apocalyptic literature, from the resurgence of the zombie flick and revival of the Mad Max franchise to YA stories like The Hunger Games and…
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Review: The Nature of Nature by Disa Wallander Humanity has a strained relationship with the natural world. We marvel at its complexity and its beauty, but we are afraid of its wildness and its brutality. And for all that we understand about the natural world, there’s still more to learn. This quest for more information…
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Review: Inaction Comics Anthology no. 1 – productivity, edited by Kimball Anderson with editorial assistance by MJ Robinson Inaction Comics no. 1 is an anthology collecting the work of 12 cartoonists into a 100-page perfect bound book that studies, fights, and comes to terms with the concept of “action” or “doing.” Edited by Kimball Anderson,…
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Review: Miseryland by Keiler Roberts This weekend is the wild rumpus of comics arts festivals, including the brand new New South Festival in Austin Texas and CAKE in Chicago. If you have the weekend free and are nearby either, I’d suggest you check them out. There are quite a few books debuting at these shows,…
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Review: Sleepwalking by Lauren Monger
Lauren Monger’s comics are fairly popular on the World Wide Web, and this spring Monger released a full comic in print with Space Face Books, Sleepwalking. (Update: This comic has been reprinted by Silver Sprocket in 2019, since Space Face Books is no longer publishing comics) One of my must-grabs this TCAF, Sleepwalking is…
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Review: Lovers Only #1 by Cathy G. Johnson, Mickey Zacchilli, and Sophia Foster-Dimino The Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) is thoroughly in the books at this point, and after two weeks of vacation & work-inflicted internet exile, I’m finally digging into some of the books I got at TCAF. Last year I wrote a show…
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Review: FLOCKS #1-4 by L. Nichols, from Retrofit Comics (#1) and Grindstone Comics (#2-4) I’m in the midst of what’s turned out to be a multi-week holiday that officially ends the day after the United States’ Memorial Day, so apologies for the sparse updates. I’ve been working through some of my TCAF spoils, and some…
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TCAF (The Toronto Comics Arts Festival) torontocomics is less than 3 days away, which means yet again I’m looking at books that are set to debut at the show. This year’s a little different than last – I’ve been prepping a bit more than last year, but that means more books I’m interested in. I…
