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Review: The Fun Family by Benjamin Frisch Remixing the dusty, rattling corpses of newspaper comics has become something of a recent trend in indie publishing; Garfield Minus Garfield, the internet darling, is likely a progenitor of the latest wave of these comics that poke around with the classic modern newspaper funnies. These comics mine (and…
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Review: Trashed by Derf Backderf One of 2015’s bigger graphic novel releases was Derf Backderf’s Trashed, an ode to the work of being a trash collector. This thick graphic novel tells the story of a college drop-out trying to figure out what to do with his life after leaving school, and ends up on the…
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Review: Nanjing: the Burning City, by Ethan Young Part of my goal this Winter was to read books published in 2015 as a way to understand the publishing year. I’ve been slowly accomplishing this goal, and a recent read has been Ethan Young’s Nanjing: the Burning City, published in hardcover by Dark Horse. In this…
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Review: End of a Fence by Roman Muradov End of a Fence is a pair of firsts; it is @kushkomikss‘ first book in the kuš! mono series, a longform work from a publisher that has traditionally focused on its international comics anthology s! and its mini kuš! comics. It’s also the first fully digital work of…
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Review: Real Account vol. 1, Written by Okushou, Illustrated by Shizumu Watanabe Hey there! Long time no see! March was a nice break from writing. I hope you are well. Kodansha Comics sent over a batch of their latest manga, and one of the books that immediately caught my attention is the first volume of…
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Review: Frontier #11 – BDSM by Eleanor Davis I’ve reviewed a few other Frontier monographs from Youth in Decline, either in my Comics That Challenged Me series or in long-form, and I’ve liked or loved many of them. But none of those comics have caused me to have such a quick and visceral reaction as…
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Review: DEALING WITH WINTER zine, an anthology edited by Mickey Zacchilli Mickey Z. sent over a copy of DEALING WITH WINTER zine a new anthology from pricetapes edited by Zacchilli, with contributions by a lot of talented artists. The book is 47 pages, risographed single-tone (mostly burgundy, but also teal and purple) pages on an…
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Review: Girl in Dior by Annie Goetzinger
Girl in Dior was one of NBM Publishing’s Spring 2015 releases. Published in France by Dargaud in 2013 as Jeune Fille en Dior, the book inserts a fictional newspaper reporter turned model into the world of Christian Dior, the famous French designer who took the world by storm in the late 1940s and into the…
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Review: The Beauty Theorem by Beatrix Urkowitz
One of my favorite comics from 2015 was Annie Mok and Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Swim Thru Fire, which was published on Hazlitt Magazine’s website. Under the guiding eye of Anshuman Iddamsetty, Hazlitt has cultivated an impressive portal for alternative comics art, one of the latest of these is Beatrix Urkowitz ’s new comic The Beauty Theorem.…
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Critical Conversations: CM & Alex Hoffman Discuss The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf
In October 2015, Macmillan released The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf. Translated from French, the book was a #1 French best-seller and is the first of what will eventually be a three part trilogy of memoirs by the French cartoonist. The Arab of the Future is a book that centers on a young…
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sequentialstatement: Episode #7: Hello 2016! Alex and Nick talk about moving into the new year. Music by Today’s Man. Comics That Challenged Me in 2015 ListSequential Statement Top 5 Reviews of: Barrier the new Panel Syndicate book by Brian K Vaughn and Marcos MartinKurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, V1-3 by Eiji Otsuka and Housui YamazakiMIND MGMT…
