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Review: Weakly Comics Xtra Large Annual, edited by Andrew Alexander, Max Huffman, and Jack Reese
I got a copy of the Weakly Comics Xtra Large Annual through Kickstarter this year. It was shipped out during the Spring, right before TCAF, and it ended up getting filed away for another time. That time, for me, was last week. The Kickstarter video for the campaign was a little weird, so it…
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Review: Safe Distance by James Hindle
Safe Distance is a 20 page zine published by One Percent Press and is the third book by James Hindle published by the micropress. I got a copy at Genghis Con in 2015. I’ve read it a few times since then, and while it’s a quick read, Safe Distance is a complex book. In it Hindle explores the…
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Review: Someone Please Have Sex With Me by Gina Wynbrandt
Part of 2dcloud’s Spring Collection, Someone Please Have Sex With Me is Gina Wynbrandt’s debut graphic novel, a collection of satirical, semi-autobiographic short stories. There’s been plenty of talk about Wynbrandt’s work. One of the selections, “Big Pussy,” got Wynbrandt nominated for a Promising New Talent Ignatz in 2015. That comic, riso printed in fluorescent pink, was a favorite…
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Quick Picks #5: Manga Manga Manga
Quick Picks is an occasionally written series of microreviews of books I’ve read over the past two weeks. Here’s a selection of manga I’ve been reading recently. Haven’t You Heard, I’m Sakamoto #1 & #2 by Nami Sano A series that recently ended with its fourth volume, Haven’tYou Heard, I’m Sakamoto is an oddball comedy by Nami…
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Review: Golemchik by William Exley
I recently picked up another book from Nobrow Press’ 17×23 line. The series is a great introduction to new cartoonists, so I was pleasantly surprised with William Exley’s Golemchik, a modern take on the ancient golem story. In Golemchik, the main character Kevin is a little boy all alone as his friends go off to…
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Review: Be Good by John Martz
I reviewed Be Good for last year’s Selections #2, a zine of comics criticism I passed out at SPX 2015. Since then, Be Good has been nominated for an Ignatz award at SPX 2016. I also realized I never posted this original review to the website. The review as originally printed has been reformatted to meet…
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Review: The Meaning of Life by Anja Wicki I picked up a few books from Matt Davis, owner/operator of Perfectly Acceptable Press, at TCAF this year, and I’ve recently gotten around to reading them. Anja Wicki’s The Meaning of Life is a 40 page pamphlet stitched book, red and blue risograph on cream colored paper. It’s…
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Review: Breaking Is Opening by Sab Meynert Sab Meynert sent over a copy of Breaking Is Opening earlier this year, and I’ve been so in awe of this book I’ve been putting off a review, trying desperately, foolishly, to come up with the perfect things to say. But I’m coming to terms with my procrastination…
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Review: Beverly by Nick Drnaso I’m trying to push through some writer’s block on a pile of newish comics. The first on the list is Beverly, the debut work of Chicago-based cartoonist Nick Drnaso. Beverly was published in the Spring by Drawn & Quarterly in trade paperback. There’s a sort of malaise to Beverly that…
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Review: Fourteen Euros at Primark by Sarah Bowie Sarah Bowie recently sent over a copy of her new comic Fourteen Euros at Primark , which debuted at ELCAF this year. This is the first work I’ve seen from Bowie, who is an illustrator, cartoonist, and cofounder of The Comics Lab in Dublin. The storytelling of Fourteen Euros…
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Comic Review: In The Sounds and Seas by Marnie Galloway
I’ve known One Peace books as a manga and light novel publisher for some time – they did recent reprints of Crayon Shin-Chan and are bringing the popular yuri series Maria Holic back to print after the demise of TokyoPop and CMX. They recently sent over a copy of Marnie Galloway’s first graphic novel In…
