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Review: Dark Angels of Darkness by Al Gofa
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Review: Spy Seal: The Corten-Steel Phoenix by Rich Tommaso
I’ve been working and reworking a review of Rich Tommaso’s Spy Seal since the trade paperback came out in early 2018, and I still have trouble knowing what to make of its publication. The comic was the subject of a brief burst of commentary from places like Comics Beat and Bleeding Cool, who saw the poor…
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Review: Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter by Atelier Sentō
One of the things that still plagues the “comics market” is the way creative work gets categorized. This is especially true if that work doesn’t neatly fit into any one category. This is even worse with translated work, and is a major issue for Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter. Created by Cécile Brun and…
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Review: Her Bark & Her Bite by James Albon
I’m still working through some older books I’ve been meaning to review; hope you have enjoyed the last few days worth of reviews. I’ll take a moment of privilege today and direct you over to Your Chicken Enemy, a site run by my colleague and friend Daniel Elkin. Dan is running a week-long feature called…
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Review: Qoberious #1, by DRT
I’ve been holding on to Qoberious #1 since earlier this year, trying figure out what to make of it. The book came essentially out of nowhere fully formed, which defies my general expectations of comics-making. When a cartoonist publishes a graphic novel, especially when it’s a first graphic novel, there is often proceeding material, either…
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Review: By Monday I’ll Be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage by Laura Lannes
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Review: Ran and the Gray World vol. 1 by Aki Irie
The first volume of Ran and the Gray World was one of the first Japanese language books I ever purchased. It’s a series that has long held my fascination; the whimsical setting piqued my interest, its use of magic so completely different from other manga in the fantasy genre. And importantly, the cover is beautiful,…
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Review: I Hate You, You Just Don’t Know It Yet by Nadine Redlich
Nadine Redlich has a playful style that I’ve seen popping up everywhere over the last 5-6 months. I loved her recent Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of Erich Ohser (aka E.O. Plauen), a famous German cartoonist (I reviewed a collection of his Father & Son comics here). Her illustrations in the New York Times and…
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Review: Giant Spider & Me, Vol. 1-2, by Kikori Morino
I’m fascinated by Giant Spider & Me, a recent release from Seven Seas. It’s genuinely unfathomable to me how a book like this got greenlit, because it’s about as unfocused a premise as possible. Giant Spider & Me is a grab bag of concepts; it’s a post-apocalypse setting, a slice of life story, a cooking…
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Review: Eternal Friendship by Anouck Durand
(This review of Anouck Durand’s Eternal Friendship was originally published by The Comics Journal on March 14th, 2018. You can find the original review here.) From the perspective of a reader of comics, the graphic novel is a mature aspect of the world of book publishing. But the larger literary world is hesitant to put unique and…
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Review: Incision, by HTMLflowers
It’s been hard to approach HTMLflowers’ latest work, mostly because of how ruthless and unsparing it is. I read Incision a few months ago and made this comment about a month ago. Grant Gronewold (HTMLflowers is his nom de plume) challenged me to review it. It took awhile, but here we are. Incision isn’t really…
