From Fall 2015 to Spring 2016, British graphic artist Kate Evans spent periods of time volunteering at the (in)famous refugee camp in Calais, France. If you heard anything on the news about the French...

The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw by Mark Crilley Watson-Guptill Publications 2016 ISBN: 978-0-385-34633-7 What do teachers do? And can anything creative (drawing,...

You can listen to a discussion about this book between Rosy Press Publisher Janelle Asselin and our Interviews Editor Joseph Kyle Schmidt a couple weeks ago on the Reboot Comic Book Club. The Red...

PARECOMIC: The Story of Michael Albert and Participatory Economics Written by Sean Michael Wilson Drawn by Carl Thompson Seven Stories Press 2106 ISBN: 978-1-60980-456-5 Nice to know that with the...

Dog City #4 Various artists, Editor not listed Dog City Press 2015 ISBN: 9781516949182 two stars Writers of comics, rejoice! You are needed! Having read a few recent comics journals (called by some...

Cruising Through The Louvre by David Prudhomme Walking through the Louvre museum in Paris is like being inside a comic book, says the character David Prudhomme early on in Cruising Through The Louvre, a...

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince by P. Craig Russell Available from NBM Publishing $8.99 I confess: I did know Oscar Wilde wrote poetry, plays, and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, but I...

Bitch Planet Book One: Extraordinary Machine words: Kelly Sue DeConnick art: Valentine de Landro Image 2015 My vote for best comic series of 2015 goes to Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine...

SNOWDEN words and art by Ted Rall Seven Stories Press 2015 $16.95 You may not have noticed this news, since it barely broke into the (American) MSM, but at the end of October, a federal judge ruled that...

RED ROSA: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg Words and art: Kate Evans Verso 2015 $16.95 ISBN: 9781784780999 Though the MSM would prefer to mostly cover the clown-car pack of Republican...

Black Widow Volume 2: The Tightly Tangled Web ISBN: 978-0-7851-8820-9 three stars I rejoined the comic book world after a long hiatus about ten years ago, but have found myself less interested...

  Ayn Rand has an interesting history with superhero comic books. Many of the artists and writers for the Big Two, especially Marvel, were readers and fans of her work in the 70s. One character, Iron...

Text by Mike De Seve Artwork by Daniel Burwen Verso Books 2015 ISBN: 978-1-78168-923-3 Looking for a graphic novel with violence, intrigue, espionage, explosions, guns and even hot women in cat...

Drawn and Written by Jon Sack In case you haven't noticed, there's a war going on down in Mexico. The American media doesn't cover it much, unless something really drastic happens, like a whole busload of...

Advance Review: This book will be released May 5, 2015 Americans seem to be embarrassingly uninterested in history, neither the world's nor even American history. The reason, I feel, is the way history is...