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Comics That Challenged Me in 2016: Part 4
Welcome back! This is part 4 of this 6 part list of comics that challenged me as a critic or as a reader in 2016. Admittedly, this part has 5 entries, but really 9 separate comics. Let’s get right to it. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2016: Part 3
Happy Friday! Part 3 of this 6 part list, and another 5 entries. Last entry had a few comics I had already reviewed through the year, but this time around it’s all comics I haven’t spoken about in a formal way. I think I’m drawn to review books that are more of a challenge, so…
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Comics That Challenged Me In 2016: Part 2
We kicked off the first of my “Comics That Challenged Me in 2016” with a bang, and now I’m back with the next five comics on the list. I always like to hear what people think about my perceptions of the comics I list here, so please feel free to contact me through tumblr, twitter, or via email. Case…
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Comics That Challenged Me in 2016: Part 1 (of 6)
It’s been an annual tradition (for 3 years running) that I have not written a “Best Comics Of 20XX” list. I think that decision continues to be a good one for me. I generally dislike the idea that any one book can be the consensus pick of any given year when there is so much art being made.…
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Review: What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and Her Pussy by Rokudenashiko
One of the big announcements leading up to TCAF 2016 was that Rokudenashiko would be in attendance to support the release of a new graphic novel memoir from Koyama Press in coordination with Massive Goods. Rokudenashiko is the artist world-famous for her manko art (manko is a slang word for vagina in Japan, like a…
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Review: P-FE/FRAF by Ville Kallio
The latest batch of comics from kuš! comics has been has been new work from rising artists as well as perennial favorites. Michael DeForge’s latest work, Meat Locker, are comics that he has been publishing on Patreon for some time. The first of the latest set of mini kuš! that caught my eye is…
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Review: Hotel Rompo by Talya Modlin
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the comics work published in 2016. I think, despite the generally accepted fact that the year was horrible, the creative output for the year, especially in comics, was startlingly good. One of my favorite comics from 2016 is Hotel Rompo, a 3 foot accordion book from Perfectly…
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Review: MOONCOP by Tom Gauld
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things while I still have some small measure of 2016 left to me to write. Nothing like starting out on the right foot for a new year. My annual feature, Comics That Challenged Me, will be starting next week and will run through the holidays. I’ve…
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Review: What Happened by Simon Moreton
I’m woefully behind on my reading – in fact, I’ve been planning to read Simon Moreton’s Plans We Made (released by Uncivilized Press in 2015) for about a year now, and I haven’t gotten around to it (the blame rests solely on my own shoulders). But when the books from the Kilgore Books Kickstarter came in…
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Review: Blammo #9 by Noah Van Sciver
I’ve been reviewing Van Sciver’s work for a while now. His “A Lizard Laughed,” now collected in Disquiet, was one of my first reviews published on this platform. I’ve been following Van Sciver’s comics very closely since 2013, and one of the great joys of being a “long-time” reader is to see an artist advance. It’s…
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Winter Is Behind Us Now; It Is Ahead of Us, Also – Thoughts
It’s been just under a week now. But it’s been a long time coming. This last 18 months has been brutal. It feels unprecedented. It is, in some ways, and in others, maybe not. I’ve been reading a lot, but not comics, certainly not literature. I’ve been listening to a lot, but not music. Analyses,…
