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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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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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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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Review: Vacancy by Jen Lee I first came across Lee’s comics via the web and Lee’s animated web comic Thunderpaw; a remarkably expressive view of the post-apocalypse through the eyes of two dogs, in bright colors. Vacancy, a book that exists in the same shared universe with its own set of anthropomorphic animals is Lee’s first…
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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…
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Review: The Oven by Sophie Goldstein The Oven is a book I’ve written about briefly in the past – starting out as a serialized black and white comic in the Maple Key anthology, it was published earlier this year by AdHouse as a 2 tone black, white, and orange perfect bound book with orange gilding.…
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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: 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: 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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Review: Lemon & Ket by Natalie Andrewson We’re getting closer and closer to TCAF – expect a “to buy” list coming in the next few days or so. In the meantime, I’m trying to get my hands on books that premiered at MoCCA and won’t be readily available at the Canadian show. PEOW! Studio came…
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Review: Last Man: The Stranger by Balak, Michaël Sanlaville, and Bastien Vivès As manga continues to become a larger part of comics in the West, it’s no surprise to see manga-influenced comics becoming more and more the norm. We’re starting to see this already as manga-reading kids are growing into comics-making adults. Last Man is…
