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ICYMI — Small Press Comics Criticism and Whatnot for 9/18/17 to 9/24/17

Daniel Elkin
September 25, 2017
ICYMI, Small Press

Highlighting some great small press comics criticism being published, as well as other random things that have caught my eye over the past week.

COMICS CRITICISM


* JA Micheline uses her interview with Tillie Walden as a springboard into a review of Walden’s new book, SPINNING, as well as a discussion of her work rituals and her interest in structure. It’s a short piece, but it stands as a testament to why JAM is one of the best critics in the business. 

* Andy Oliver reviews Katie Skelly’s MY PRETTY VAMPIRE which “can be interpreted as both a story representing individual freedom and release and one with a far broader allegorical meaning in terms of social commentary.”

* Kim O’Connor explores PORTRAIT by Simon Hanselmann and writes, “The thing is, in a  culture where everything is both universally known and impossibly obscure — as it is on the Internet, as it is in indie comics — a lot of stuff becomes plausibly deniable when your preferred mode of talking shit is encrypted.” 

* Robert Kirby reviews Hannah K. Lee’s LANGUAGE BARRIER, writing “With her decoded, beautifully visualized language, Lee communicates a memorably funny, insightful and humane statement about the times in which we live and our often flailing efforts at connection.” Sounds like the perfect book for me.

* Henry Chamberlain takes a casual and breezy look at DARK SIDE OF THE MOON by Blutch, eventually calling it “an utterly mesmerizing work.”

* John Seven reviews Ulli Lust’s VOICES IN THE DARK, a book that is “Just straightforward with enough delicacy that it takes pity on the reader for having to endure what it is showing us.”


* Over on Comicon.com, I wrote two new reviews of books I picked up at SPX this year. First is STAGES OF ROT by Linnea Sterte. Next is BODY MAGIK by Scott Roberts.

WHATNOT


* Paul Lai interviews comics poet and editor of InkBrick, PAUL K. TUNIS about comics poetry. This is a pretty great conversation.

* Alex Dueben interviews ELI VALLEY about his book Diaspora Boy.

* Kat Overland writes about celebrating diversity and community in her look back at the 2017 IGNATZ AWARDS.

* Alex Hoffman takes a look back at his SPX 2017 experience with THE FAMILY YOU CHOOSE.


* Rob Clough shares his REFLECTIONS ON SPX 2017.

* Kyle Pinion shares his haul in his piece ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS I BOUGHT AT SPX THIS YEAR.

* Heidi MacDonald shares her particular thoughts on SPX 2017 as well, calling it THE YEAR OF GETTING WOKE.

* Nick Hanover‘s DEVIN FARACI AND THE COST OF UNEARNED SECOND CHANCES is one of those incredibly well-written articles about a complex situation that boils it down in a way that leaves you with your blood boiling.

* The new SHORTBOX is available for order!

* Giles Scott‘s HIGH SCHOOL READING AS AN ACT OF MEANINGFUL AGGRESSION.

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