Collecting Profile: Disney Frozen
Frozen 2 comes out today, November 22, 2019. The movie was moved up from November 27. Disney hired Allison Schroeder, the screenwriter of Disney's Christopher Robin, to assist Jennifer Lee, the director of...
Collecting Profile: NFL Superpro
It is football season. To honor that I will blog about NFL SuperPro. This Marvel comic book came out in 1991 and lasted for 12 issues. It is about an ex-NFL player, Phil Grayfielf, who got involved in an...
“THE BEST OF WITZEND” is a Wonderful Celebration of Artistic Freedom
Fantagraphics Books Though we may currently be living in an age where comics are taken more seriously as a legitimate artistic medium, they are still perceived by many as "kids stuff." This was particularly...
Review: ‘Machete Squad’ is a Disappointing Afghan Memoir
Machete Squad could have been a great graphic novel. This 160-page memoir details the story of Brent Dulak, a US medic sent to Afghanistan to patch up wounded solders and civilians at a remote outpost located...
Review: ‘Out of Nothing’ is the Antidote to Our Sick Times
Out of Nothing is one of the most emotionally affecting graphic novels I’ve read in quite some time, and I’m having trouble explaining why it touched me so deeply. Written and illustrated by British...
Review: ‘Bizarre Romance’ Shows Rough Edges in the Early Days of a New Marriage
Eddie Campbell is one of my favorite cartoonists. His work has been a delight to me since I discovered it, even before he illustrated the sublime From Hell. So every new Campbell book is a real treat for...
Review: ‘The Furnace’ is a Fascinating Graphic Novel of Ideas and Relationships
The Furnace, the new graphic novel by Prentis Rollins from TOR Books, is a fascinating science fiction novel of ideas and of relationships. It’s about the human cost of technology and the ways in which new...
Review: ‘Apollo’ is Great with Facts, Less Great with Mythologizing
My parents used to talk all the time about the moon landing, in the same hushed tones they used to talk about the deaths of John F. Kennedy and of my maternal grandfather, who passed away a decade before I was...
‘The Art of Fantasy, Sci-fi and Steampunk’ is a Lush, Beautiful History of Fantasy Art
Like anyone who loves comics, I’m a great fan of fantasy art. I love immersing myself in complex and imaginative dreamscapes I could scarcely have imagined, worlds that could be both just outside my window...
Review: ‘Prisoner 155’ is a Remarkable Portrait of a Political Revolutionary
Prisoner 155 begins with desolation. When we first meet Simón Radowitzky, he is a solitary man trapped in a brutal prison in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. We witness him beaten savagely by indifferent guards...
‘The Smell of Starving Boys’ is a Brilliant, Haunting Western
The Smell of Starving Boys, the new graphic novel by Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang, is the best graphic novel I’ve read all year. The book opens with an upside-down image of a beautifully stark cliff in...
‘The Mercenary: Cult of the Sacred Fire’ is an Awesomely Fun Jolt of Otherworldly Adventure
The Mercenary: Cult of the Sacred Fire is a wildly fun jolt of early 1980s Heavy Metal thrills. With its gorgeous oil-painted art, deliriously odd storyline and copious nudity, the first volume of Vicente...
Review: ‘Mangasia’ is a Fascinating Journey Through Asian Comic Art
Mangasia is a must-buy for anybody who wants to learn about the history of comics in nearly two dozen Asian countries. Master comics historian Paul Gravett delivers a sumptuously illustrated history of...
Review: ‘Cartoon County’ is a Breezy, Fun Burst of Comics Nostalgia
One of the great things about working in comics these days is that you can work from pretty much anywhere. Whether the artist is in New York or The Phillipines hardly matters these days, thanks to the miracle...
Review: ‘Renegade: Martin Luther: the Graphic Biography’
It’s been five hundred years since Martin Luther changed the world by hammering his ninety-five Theses to the doors of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, in Saxony. Those events split the Roman Catholic Church...