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Review: A Thousand Coloured Castles by Gareth Brookes
Gareth Brookes has made a small name for himself in the art comics scene due to his experimentation with materials and form. His first major graphic novel, The Black Project, used a combination of embroidery and linocut to give the work a distinct visual style. Now Brookes is back with a new book A Thousand Coloured Castles…
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Review: Berserker #1, ed. Tom Oldham and Jamie Sutcliffe
(Update 2/25/18: I have been notified by Tom Oldham that all of the stories told in Berserker are are not fiction, but are entirely true. Please excuse this oversight in the review below. Thanks!) Breakdown sent a copy of their new sci-fi anthology Berserker in the Fall last year, and I’ve been slowly piecing my…
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Review: The Lie and How We Told It by Tommi Parrish
Tommi Parrish is one of my favorite rising cartoonists. Their work in NOW #1 was a highlight of the anthology, and their comic Perfect Discipline and Unbending Loyalty was one of my favorites of 2017. It seems like a lot of Tommi’s work is coming out all at the same time, but they’re back with…
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Review: Cartoon Clouds by Joseph Remnant
Fantagraphics sent over a few new books in the Fall and I’ve been slowly working my way through them. One that I’ve been stewing over for a while is Joseph Remnant’s debut graphic novel, Cartoon Clouds. Remnant did the illustration work for Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, and is anthologized in NOW #2. Cartoon Clouds is a…
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Review: Astra: Lost in Space V. 1 by Kenta Shinohara
Astra: Lost in Space is one of the books that runs on Viz Media’s website in digital – chapters of the book are up online to read, and are pulled down when the printed edition comes out. At the end of the year, the first volume of Astra: Lost in Space was released in print,…
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Review: What is Left, by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
Rosemary Valero-O’Connell is a rising star of comics, and I’ve been following her work with great interest. She’s currently working on a graphic novel with Mariko Tamaki, and her early work from Talk Weird Press, If Only Once, If Only for a Little While, captivated me. Now she is back with a new mini-comic What…
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Review: Tales from the Hyperverse by William Cardini
Retrofit Comics sent out their final set of comics from their Spring 2017 collection this November, which included the hardcover Trumptrump from Warren Craghead and William Cardini’s latest, Tales from the Hyperverse. Tales from the Hyperverse is a personal collection in Cardini’s strange, psychedelic sci-fi/fantasy universe. I previously reviewed his comic Vortex in 2015, and compared it…
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Review: Golden Kamuy vol. 1 by Satoru Noda
The folks at Viz Media recently sent over some of their latest manga, and I’ve taken some time to read through a few new releases. One that’s been getting some hype is Golden Kamuy, a seinen manga set in the immediate aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War. An army veteran, Saichi Sugimoto, nicknamed “Immortal Sugimoto,” is…
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Review: Bottled, by Chris Gooch
Top Shelf has taken on some younger cartoonists and is publishing a few debuts this fall. One of these debut artists is Chris Gooch, a Melbourne-based cartoonist, whose first graphic novel Bottled broke ground at SPX this year. Gooch has been a fairly active zine maker and anthologist up to this point, and he was…
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Review: It’s No Longer I That Liveth by Francisco Sousa Lobo
I occasionally have the chance to import comics from Europe, and a recent title by Portuguese cartoonist Francisco Sousa Lobo crossed my desk. It’s No Longer I That Liveth, an 88 pager co-published by Chili Com Carne and Mundo Fantasma. It’s printed in yellow and black risograph, and perfect bound. The comic is about teenager Francisco…
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Review: Shiner by Nathan Cowdry
Some folks on Twitter and Instagram post #mailday pictures, and I depending on the person, I follow those with great interest. I’m always excited to find something new I hadn’t seen before, and Nathan Cowdry’s Shiner showed up in a pile a few months ago, on a cartoonist’s feed. I thought the cover was interesting…
