Risk and the Terrible Abyss: David Hine and Alberto Ponticelli discuss Second Sight
With Second Sight, writer David Hine and artist Alberto Ponticelli take the serial killer crime procedural and give it … hair, a brisk cocktail of...
Vanesa Del Rey & the Power of Thinness: Hit: Pen & Ink #2
Cartoonist Vanesa R. Del Rey works thin places. The idea of a thin place comes from the ancient Celts. Peter Gomes, a Harvard theologian,...
Picks of the Week: April 1, 2015
Welcome to Picks of The Week for April 1, 2015! In the top slot this week, the Distinguished Competition is offering the long-awaited Sinestro...
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What We Said Then: Kissing Casanova: Lust in Luxuria
With this week's release of Casanova: Acedia #1 from Image Comics (and our fascinating upcoming review of that intriguing issue), we thought it was...
Dispatches from CAB Part Two: Miss What?
Welcome to part the second of Comics Bulletin’s coverage of Comic Arts Brooklyn 2014. To find out how our two provincials, Daniel Elkin and Keith...
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Xenia Superior: Michel Fiffe’s COPRA #18
Call it ‘The Ric Flair Rule,’ the instant when all else slips away and one is left with the simple notion: “To be THE MAN, you’ve got to beat...
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Excessive Machine: Katie Skelly’s Agent 8
Warning: illustrated naked body parts below Remember those … physical responses, loins-wise, watching Jane Fonda do her spaced-out striptease at...
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Review: ‘Art Schooled’ Makes Jason and Keith Want to Go Back to College, Almost
JASON SACKS: So, Keith, we've had an explosion of memoirs in the last few years, with Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Are You My Mother? next to David...
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Review: ‘Through The Woods’ Delivers Timeless Horror
If you can put your five fingers through it it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see. -- Ulysses, III, 8 - 9 Sure, mama and papa Carroll...
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Eel Mansions #6 (Bringing It All Back Home)
''And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the...
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Review: Not For Everyone: ‘God Hates Astronauts’ #1
Now, Albert Einstein was a fuck-up as a cartoonist, that said which by the way is redundant in both writing and speech because, you know, you just...
Do the Work and Don’t Get Hurt: An interview with Farel Dalrymple
Farel Dalrymple challenges his readers. Think less esoteric snore-fest or stuffy exegesis and more … a dare. Dalrymple asks: can you keep up?...
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Review: The Wrenchies: ”Something Left a Back Door Open”
KEITH SILVA: In The Wrenchies Farel Dalrymple means business; he's an artist after all.Here there be monsters, dystopic landscapes and children...
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Really Very OK: a review of ‘Moonhead and the Music Machine’
Andrew Rae's Moonhead and the Music Machine falls into a quasi-amorphous category I'll call flowerchild folderol, the kind of small hour...
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Review: ‘The Empty Man’ #1 (of 6): for the sake of all that is holy … why
Set in a timeless ''Five Years Ago'' and ''Now,'' The Empty Man reads like a late 1970s early ‘80s word-of-mouth artifact of found horror, a...