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Review: Frontier #7 – SexCoven by Jillian Tamaki If I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – as far as indie comics goes, 2015 may very well be remembered as the year of Jillian Tamaki. With This One Summer receiving the Caldecott in February, Tamaki has had a great start to the year. And…
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Review: Old Ground #1 by Noel Freibert Part of the challenge of comics criticism is the piece of work that redefines the way you think about comics. We have our own little buckets we put things in; art comics, autobio, speculative fiction, etc. and it’s easy to get wrapped up in the trappings of those…
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Comics Review: The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino
Review: The Hospital Suite, by John Porcellino John Porcellino is a stalwart of the indie comics scene. King-Cat Comics is going on its 26th year, and Porcellino’s zine distro, Spit and a Half, was how I bought some of my first indie comics at SPACE in Columbus last year. Late in 2014, Drawn and Quarterly released…
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Musings: Beauty by Hubert and Kerascoët It is hard to thoroughly discuss any work with any brevity. Often times a critic’s thoughts and ideas about a specific piece must be abandoned due to word counts. I admit I do this regularly – instead of bringing up all of the thoughts I have about a piece, I tend…
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Review: Mimi and the Wolves, Acts I and II by Alabaster Late in 2014, Matt from Hic and Hoc sent over a bundle of recent comics, and it’s only now that I’m starting to get around to reading everything. The first step to solving a problem is admitting that you have one, so there it…
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Review: Fish, by Bianca Bagnarelli Bianca Bagnarelli’s illustration work captured my attention earlier this year, so I was happy to hear that she was having a book published through Nobrow Press’ 17×23 line, a series of comics that features short stories by young talented cartoonists. The line has a sparseness to it, which requires a…
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Review: Cat Dad, King of the Goblins by Britt Wilson Koyama Press has recently entered into the world of kid’s comics with two spectacularly different books – the hardcover A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories by John Martz is described as a picture book for younger readers, while the softcover Cat Dad, King of…
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Review: Dear Amanda by Cathy G. Johnson One of the great joys of SPX for me this year (despite not getting to be there) was to see great cartoonists be recognized through the Ignatz Awards. Cathy G. Johnson is the winner of this year’s Promising New Talent Ignatz award on a slate of really great…
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Review: Never Forgets by Yumi Sakugawa Yumi Sakugawa took the internet by storm in 2012 with the crushingly adorable I Think I’m In Friend-Love With You, now a book from Adam’s Media, and I’ve been following her work recently, especially since her minicomic Never Forgets was nominated for an Ignatz. Sakugawa’s keen eye for isolation in a social…
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Review: It Never Happened Again by Sam Alden Earlier this year I did a review/thoughts piece on Sam’s Wicked Chicken Queen from Retrofit. I was thoroughly impressed with Alden’s mastery of graphite and the thoughtfulness of the book. Uncivilized Press has recently released a book with two collected stories, “Hawaii 1997” and “Anime,” the first…
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Review: How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis I’ve been eagerly anticipating the first collection of Eleanor Davis’ work since I stumbled upon her illustration work for Google and the New York Times. Still being fairly new to the indie comics scene, I hadn’t realized how much of her work was available online or in…
