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  • Review: Plain by Bailey Sharp

    Review: Plain by Bailey Sharp

    One of the subscriptions I got last year that I really enjoyed was the Minicomic of the Month Club. Like it says on the tin, you get a mini comic mailed to you every month. It’s a nice surprise letter in the mail when the new mini comes, and it’s an easy way to see…

  • Quick Picks #4: Uncivilized

    Happy Friday everyone! Quick Picks is a series of microreviews of books I’ve read in the past 2 weeks. These three quick reviews are of some recent minis from Uncivilized Press​ – an abbreviated set of these reviews was originally published in Selections #2, a comics review zine I publish. Uncivilized Books is a publisher…

  • Review: Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger

    Review: Sea Urchin by Laura Knetzger

      There are some comics you struggle with, not because you can’t find their strengths or their meaning, but because you can’t find the exact way to say what you want. Laura Knetzger’s Sea Urchin from Retrofit Comics is like that for me, and I’ve been working through my thoughts on this comic since I read…

  • Review: mini kuš! #30 – Logbook, by Terhi Ekebom Finnish cartoonist Terhi Ekebom is one of the latest artists to work with Kuš komiksi’s mini kuš! project, each artist delivering a full color 4”x6” minicomic that clocks in at 24 pages. Ekebom’s comic is a somber and eerie vision of death and remembering. Within Logbook,…

  • Review: Witches, Dragons, Magic, & Cats by Carey Pietsch

    Review: Witches, Dragons, Magic, & Cats by Carey Pietsch

    Witches, Dragons, Magic, & Cats is a collection of  short stories by Carey Pietsch. This collection is a 32 page black and white comic with color cover pages. Pietsch has recently been working on the Adventure Time comic Marceline Gone Adrift, and while I have heard good things about the series (written by Meredith Gran), I’m…

  • Review: Pope Hats #4 by Ethan Rilly (Hartley Lin)

    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,…

  • Review: BASELINE BLVD by Emi Gennis

    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…

  • Review: Unico, by Osamu Tezuka

    Review: Unico, by Osamu Tezuka

    Unico was one of the first books published through Digital Manga Publishing’s Tezuka Kickstarter program, and with its recent reprint from DMP in their Storm Fairy Kickstarter, I thought it would be reasonable to revisit a review of Unico I wrote in 2013.  The book, as a print object, is one of DMP’s best to date; I’ve complained about…

  • Review: Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater by A. Degen Previous work by A. Degen has shown up on my 2014 “Comics that Challenged Me” list, and so when Koyama Press announced it would publish Mighty Star and the Castle of the Cancatervater as part of its Spring 2015 lineup, I was immediately…

  • 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…

  •  Review: Apartment Hunting by Alison Wilgus

     Review: Apartment Hunting by Alison Wilgus

    Alison Wilgus sent over a copy of her latest comic, Apartment Hunting, a full color 17 page fantasy comic book about Hanne, an apartment hunter in a fantasy world where apartments are giant boxy looking emu-like birds. Along for the ride is a young couple, Jokum and Vivi, who are using Hanne’s service to find…