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Tag: ley lines

  • Review: Skin to Skin by Jia Sung

    Review: Skin to Skin by Jia Sung

    The new Ley Lines books from Czap Books and Grindstone Press are starting to come out, and Jia Sung’s Skin to Skin is the first release of 2018. Jia Sung is a name I associate with Guernica Magazine – her illustrations for that website have always struck me as being simultaneously fragile and fierce. Drawing…

  • Interview: Kevin Czap and L Nichols on Ley Lines

    Interview: Kevin Czap and L Nichols on Ley Lines

    Hi readers. As part of this week’s Ley Lines coverage, I sat down with publishers and cartoonists L Nichols and Kevin Czap. Together as Grindstone Comics and Czap Books, they have been publishing Ley Lines since 2014. I did an interview with them in 2015 about the series, and I sat back down with them…

  • Interview: Laila Milevski, on Enter, Holy Pilgrim

    Interview: Laila Milevski, on Enter, Holy Pilgrim

    This week I’m featuring a recent release from Czap Books and Grindstone Press; Ley Lines #9, Enter, Holy Pilgrim. Yesterday we started with a review of the book; today I sit down to interview Laila Milevski, the creator, to talk about her inspiration and her thoughts about the creative process in working on a Ley…

  • Comic Review: Enter, Holy Pilgrim by Laila Milevski

    Comic Review: Enter, Holy Pilgrim by Laila Milevski

    This week I’m happy to present a series of articles focused on Enter, Holy Pilgrim, by Laila Milevski. Today is the comic review of that book, and later this week we will have two interviews. The first interview is with Laila about Enter, Holy Pilgrim. The second interview is with Kevin Czap and L. Nichols…

  • Review: Ley Lines #3 – Thank God I Am In Love by Cathy G. Johnson Earlier this week, I published an interview with Kevin Czap and L. Nichols, the publishers of the Ley Lines series. Thank God, I Am In Love by Cathy G. Johnson is the third issue of the quarterly publication, which engages…

  • Interview – Kevin Czap and L. Nichols on Ley Lines

    You’ve probably seen me talkabout the Ley Lines series on Twitter. The series is copublished by Czap Books and Grindstone Comics, and the first issue by Annie Mok was on my 2014 Comics that Challenged Me list. Issue #3 by Cathy G. Johnson debuted at TCAF this year, and my review of that comic will go…