Review: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Drawn + Quarterly (w/a) Adrian Tomine While the old adage is to never judge a book by its cover, it is a sin we are all guilty of. This is...
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 11/25/2016: A “Shopping List” For A (truly) Black Friday
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comic Bulletin’s Small Press Review Column. Now that nazis are being complimented for their taste in men’s...
ICYMI for 12/13/15 to 12/20/15
Highlighting some great comics criticism being published, as well as other random things that have caught my eye over the past week. COMICS...
Five Star Review: ‘Syllabus’ by Lynda Barry
I was a writing instructor for seven years, and was thought of by many of my fellow instructors, and especially the various admin folks, as the...
5.0
Review: ‘Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan’ is an a masterpiece of storytelling from a great Japanese master
Note: this book was translated by Comics Bulletin's Zack Davisson but the translation is not discussed in this review. Shigeru Mizuki is one of...
4.5
Review: 'Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths' masterfully tells the story of World War II from a Japanese perspective
Shigeru Mizuki's Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is an incredible war comic, told from the standpoint of a group of Japanese soldiers at the...
4.0
Review: 'Marble Season' is seeped in nostalgia and childlike wonder
Gilbert Hernandez is one of our most prolific cartoonists, but more than that, Hernandez is one of our most diversely prolific cartoonists....
4.5
Review: 'Kitaro' is virtuoso weirdness from Japan
Kitaro looks like a little boy, but he has secrets – dark, mysterious secrets that you don't really want to imagine needing in your...
3.0
Review: Brian Ralph’s ‘Reggie 12’ Is Harmlessly Cute Cartooning
As comics gradually claw their way out from people's perceptions of the entire medium being worthless shit made for kids who can't read good, we get...
4.0
Optic Nerve #12
Adrian Tomine didn't expect any of this. More than a month ago, I made a visit to my local comic shop to ask about Tomine's latest output....